Creating Connections to New Career Paths...
Apprenticeships were once a vital part of the jewelry industry, allowing businesses to transfer knowledge while also showing younger workers a recognizable career path. The MJSA Mentor & Apprenticeship Program (MAP) aims to revive this practice, through both a comprehensive training program and a promotional series of videos celebrating careers designing and making jewelry..
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The MJSA Mentor & Apprenticeship program has been approved by the U.S. Department of Labor's Apprenticeship Office as a National Guidelines Standard (NGS) and recognized as a "model" for developing bench jeweler apprenticeships throughout the country.