Innovator

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.
Strategist

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.
Other work activities related to Jewelers
- 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.