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Questions about jewelry schools
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Career Information: |
Career Opportunities...?What jobs are available? The definition of the word "jeweler” is as broad and varied as the definition of “athlete” or banker” or “teacher” or “merchant”. A jeweler can be a person who designs jewelry or makes it or repairs it or sells it. Many jewelers combine all these different aspects of the business. They may work with precious stones, synthetics, silver, gold, platinum, or other metals. Or, they may specialize in watches, selling them and repairing them. The field is broad and the opportunities are many. Let us consider the major jobs available in the retail jewelry business.
Back to TopCraftsman...?Jewelers who are crafts people or designers are highly skilled workers who are compensated very well. These men and women are always in great demand in the industry. Jewelry craftsmanship includes a variety of special skills. There is the designer who conceives and sketches ideas for expensive, custom – made jewelry. A jeweler that both designs and makes hand-wrought jewelry for example, works with the actual stones and metals. There is the craftsman who crates the finished product from the designer’s sketches or models. Some jewelers are gem cutters or setters, whose special talents enable them to cut, shape or mount the stones. The jewelry repairman does just what the title implies: this person repairs many items of jewelry. Many of these are very important personnel in the jewelry stores where they contribute materially to the firm’s reputation for servicing what is sold. Some of the fine stores custom design and fabricate jewelry to the customer’s order, and skilled crafts people and designers are necessary to initiate and execute these creations. A horologist is a watchmaker, or clockmaker, specializing in repairing timepieces. In short, opportunities for crafts people are many in the jewelry field, and these positions are also excellent stepping-stones for owning your own business.
Back to TopSales ... ?
The immediate potential for earnings is well above the average for other
retail fields and the long-range potential is in the six-figure income class.
Alertness, willingness and desire can result in rapid career and earnings
advancement.
The sales area is an excellent starting place for those people with
ambitions to open their own business. Here, they receive first-hand training in
customer relations as well as a working knowledge of the many different facets
of jewelry store merchandising.
Back to TopManagement...?
Top management offers many attractive and lucrative
positions to the intelligent, responsible, and ambitious employee.
In the executive field, demand is high for men and women skilled in
personnel, management, sales promotion, advertising, floor and window display,
and buying. One area, which is becoming increasingly important, is appraisals. In
fact, because of the significance, many stores employ a person to do nothing but
appraisals.
The need for competent managers has been heightened in recent years by
the growth of multi-unit organizations. Expansion has caused many fine jewelry
firms to seek top-notch managers in order to maintain, in their branch
operations, the same high standards upon which the success of the parent store
was built. Obviously, management is the leading route to store ownership. It also is
well compensated on its own level. In the entire retail field, a good jewelry
store manager is rated among the leaders in the economic as well as social
status.
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