Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

• Examining gems during processing for ensuring accuracy of angles and positions of cuts or bores, using magnifying glasses, loupes, or shadowgraphs.
• Assigning polish, symmetry, and clarity grades to stones, according to established grading systems.
• Examining gem surfaces and internal structures, using polariscopes, refractometers, microscopes, and other optical instruments, to differentiate between stones, for identifying rare specimens, or for detecting flaws, defects, or peculiarities affecting gem values.
• Identifying and documenting stones’ clarity characteristics, using plot diagrams.
• Advising customers and others on the best using of gems for creating attractive jewelry items.
• Examining diamonds or gems for ascertaining the ideal shapes, and width of cutting stones, or for selecting the cuts that will result in the biggest, best quality stones.
• Immersing stones in prescribed chemical solutions for determining specific gravities and key properties of gemstones or substitutes.