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Job Activities

Learn about the most important job activities for Jewelers. Also, find out how proficient you have to be in each job activity.
Importance*More Info
1.Handling and Moving Objects90
2.Controlling Machines and Processes65
Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People65
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events65
5.Thinking Creatively60
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information60
7.Getting Information55
8.Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings50
* Importance out of 100

Score Key
  Importance for success in this profession
  Level of proficiency needed

Job Activity Scores

Handling and Moving Objects
Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
90
54
Change settings on copy machinesArrange books in a libraryLoad boxes on an assembly line
Controlling Machines and Processes
Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
65
43
Operate a cash registerOperate a drilling rigOperate a precision milling machine
Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People
Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
65
57
Determine whether to remove a tree that has been damagedDetermine the value of property lost in a fireEstablish the value of a recently discovered ancient art work
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
65
51
Test an automobile transmissionJudge the acceptability of food productsDetermine the reaction of a virus to a new drug
Thinking Creatively
Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
60
49
Change the spacing on a printed reportAdapt popular music for a high school marching bandCreate new computer software
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
60
34
Estimate the size of household furnishings to be cratedEstimate the time required to evacuate a city in the event of a major disasterEstimate the amount of natural resources that lie beneath the world's oceans
Getting Information
Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
55
37
Follow a standard blueprintReview a budgetStudy international tax laws
Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
50
37
Check to see if baking bread is doneTest electrical circuitsCheck the status of a patient in critical medical care