The MJSA Education Foundation partnered with the New Approach School for Jewelers in Franklin, Tennessee to launch their BEaJEWELER Initiative. The initiative aims to “recruit and motivate young people and career-transitioning people to consider a career in jewelry making.”
What is BEaJEWELER?
The website provides jewelry process overview videos and guidance for anyone who wishes to start a career in jewelry making. Their Guidance for New Jewelers page provides blog posts full of helpful information. Here are a few examples:
- You’re as Good as Your Tools, Training & Tenacity!
- On Skills, Collaboration, Fear, and Failure
- Use the Video Library to Jump-Start Your Training
- Jewelry Process Overviews: Making a Ring with CAD and 3D Printing
The website also provides helpful resources such as schools and training programs, jewelry networks, trade associations and organizations and scholarships and grants.
Click thumbnail to watch MJSA’s BEaJEWELER Video
MAKE A DIFFERENCE:
There are several ways to get involved in BEaJEWELER if you are a jeweler professional. Visit BEaJEWELER’s 10 Ways You Can Help page to see how you can help attract new talent. Here are a few examples:
- Offer a career day demonstration at your local schools
- Become a BEaJEWELER Mentor
- Help BEaJEWELER with their social media outreach by using their hashtags: #BEaJEWELER, #MakeSomething, #GetYourHandsDirty when posting about being a jeweler
Learn more about the BEaJEWELER Initiative on their website!
