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 Precious metal workers
- Cutting and file pieces of jewelry such as rings, brooches, bracelets, and lockets.
- Soldering parts together or filling holes and cracks with metal solder, using gas torches.
- Polishing articles by hand or by using a polishing wheel.
- Piercing and cutting multiple designs in ornamentation, using hand drills and scroll saws.
- Positioning and aligning auxiliary parts in jigs and joining parts, using solder and blowtorches.
- Examining articles for determining the nature of defects requiring repairing, such as dents, uneven bottoms, scratches, or holes.
- Shaping and straightening damaged or twisted articles by hand or using pliers.
- Annealing precious metal objects such as coffeepots, tea sets, and trays in gas ovens for prescribed times for softening metal for reworking.
- Rotating molds to distributing alloys and for preventing formation of air pockets.
- Weighing and mixing alloy ingredients, using formulas and knowledge of ingredients’ chemical properties.
- Carrying castings or finished items to storage areas or to different working stations.