Watch & Clock Repairers

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Job Outlook:
None
Education: High school diploma or equivalent
Salary
High: $75,870.00
Average: $49,580.00
Hourly
Average: $23.84

What they do:

Repair, clean, and adjust mechanisms of timing instruments, such as watches and clocks. Includes watchmakers, watch technicians, and mechanical timepiece repairers.

On the job, you would:

  • Clean, rinse, and dry timepiece parts, using solutions and ultrasonic or mechanical watch-cleaning machines.
  • Adjust timing regulators, using truing calipers, watch-rate recorders, and tweezers.
  • Reassemble timepieces, replacing glass faces and batteries, before returning them to customers.

Personality

A3 Your Strengths Importance

Characteristics of this Career

99% Attention to Detail  -  Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
89% Integrity  -  Job requires being honest and ethical.
78% Analytical Thinking  -  Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
77% Self-Control  -  Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
72% Dependability  -  Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
72% Independence  -  Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
71% Initiative  -  Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
70% Concern for Others  -  Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
69% Cooperation  -  Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
67% Achievement/Effort  -  Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
64% Persistence  -  Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
63% Stress Tolerance  -  Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
59% Adaptability/Flexibility  -  Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
57% Leadership  -  Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
57% Innovation  -  Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Strengths

100% Realistic  -  Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.
61% Conventional  -  Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.

Aptitude

A3 Your Strengths Importance

Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality

78% Finger Dexterity  -  The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
75% Near Vision  -  The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
75% Arm-Hand Steadiness  -  The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
75% Control Precision  -  The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
63% Manual Dexterity  -  The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
60% Information Ordering  -  The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
56% Problem Sensitivity  -  The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
56% Visualization  -  The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
53% Category Flexibility  -  The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

Job Details

Responsibilities
Lubricate equipment to allow proper functioning.
Replace worn, damaged, or defective mechanical parts.
Repair worn, damaged, or defective mechanical parts.
Clean equipment, parts, or tools to repair or maintain them in good working order.
Inspect mechanical equipment to locate damage, defects, or wear.
Disassemble equipment to inspect for deficiencies.
Reassemble equipment after repair.
Test mechanical equipment to ensure proper functioning.
Fabricate parts or components.
Estimate costs for labor or materials.
Maintain work equipment or machinery.
Adjust equipment to ensure optimal performance.
Record information about parts, materials or repair procedures.
Confer with customers or users to assess problems.
Test electrical circuits or components for proper functioning.
Repair electronic equipment.
Clean workpieces or finished products.
Order materials, supplies, or equipment.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent

100% Indoors, Environmentally Controlled  -  How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions?
100% Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls  -  How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls?
97% Importance of Being Exact or Accurate  -  How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job?
92% Spend Time Sitting  -  How much does this job require sitting?
92% Structured versus Unstructured Work  -  To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals?
90% Freedom to Make Decisions  -  How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer?
84% Face-to-Face Discussions  -  How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job?
79% Telephone  -  How often do you have telephone conversations in this job?
70% Time Pressure  -  How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines?
67% Contact With Others  -  How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it?
66% Physical Proximity  -  To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people?
63% Frequency of Decision Making  -  How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization?
57% Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results  -  What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer?
57% Deal With External Customers  -  How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job?
55% Work With Work Group or Team  -  How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job?
54% Exposed to Contaminants  -  How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)?
52% Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable  -  How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable?
68% Duration of Typical Work Week  -  Number of hours typically worked in one week.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Tasks & Values

83% Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment  -  Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
78% Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings  -  Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
76% Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events  -  Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
74% Making Decisions and Solving Problems  -  Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
74% 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.
73% Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People  -  Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
73% Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials  -  Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
69% Performing for or Working Directly with the Public  -  Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
68% Analyzing Data or Information  -  Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
67% Getting Information  -  Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
65% Controlling Machines and Processes  -  Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
61% Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge  -  Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
61% Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment  -  Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
59% Monitoring and Controlling Resources  -  Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
58% Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work  -  Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
55% Thinking Creatively  -  Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
54% Handling and Moving Objects  -  Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.

Getting Started

Education:
46%
Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production)
22%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)

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