Gem and Diamond Workers

People in this career often know a lot about:

• Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

People in this career often have talent in:

• Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
• Finger Dexterity - The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
• Visual Color Discrimination - The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
• Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

• Category Flexibility - The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

People in this career often do these activities:

• Evaluate quality of materials or products.
• Examine physical characteristics of gemstones or precious metals.
• Record operational or production data.
• Determine the value of goods or services.
• Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.

• Sort materials or products for processing, storing, shipping, or grading.
• Position raw materials on processing or production equipment.
• Polish materials, workpieces, or finished products.
• Advise others on ways to improve processes or products.
• Maneuver workpieces in equipment during production.
• Operate grinding equipment.
• Measure materials to mark reference points, cutting lines, or other indicators.
• Position equipment using hand tools, power tools, or heavy equipment.
• Position hand tools.
• Mount materials or workpieces onto production equipment.
• Select production equipment according to product specifications.
• Mix substances to create chemical solutions.
• Apply solutions to production equipment.
• Replace worn equipment components.
• Replace worn, damaged, or defective mechanical parts.
• Sharpen cutting or grinding tools.
• Solder parts or workpieces.
• Solder parts or connections between parts.
• Cut materials according to specifications or needs.
• Shape glass or similar materials.
• Fabricate products or components using machine tools.
• Disassemble equipment for maintenance or repair.
• Operate drilling equipment.

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