Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

Most strategists should excel at:

• Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

• Smoothing soldered joints and rough spots, using hand files and emery paper, and polishing smoothed areas with polishing wheels or buffing wire.
• Positioning stones and metal pieces, and setting, mounting, and securing items in place, using setting and hand tools.
• Creating jewelry from materials such as gold, silver, platinum, and precious or semiprecious stones.
• Making repairs, such as enlarging or reducing ring sizes, soldering pieces of jewelry together, and replacing broken clasps and mountings.
• Cleaning and polishing metal items and jewelry pieces, using jewelers’ tools, polishing wheels, and chemical baths.
• Selecting and acquiring metals and gems for designs.
• Computing costs of labor and materials for determining production costs of products and articles.
• Marking and drilling holes in jewelry mountings for centering stones according to design specifications.
• Examining assembled or finished products for ensuring conformance to specifications, using magnifying glasses or precision measuring instruments.