The JA Report: News, Tips & Trends from Jewelers of America

Analyze Your Business Ethics

Jewelers of America recently launched a comprehensive online guide to its Code of Professional Practices, titled “Cracking the Code: A Guide to Jewelers of America’s Code of Professional Practices.” It shows JA Members how to use JA’s Code of Professional Practices to build their business and increase profitability, customer satisfaction and customer retention. The guide is part of the JA’s new eLearning Center at www.jewelers.org/elearning/.

To highlight the insightful and creative strategies included in "Cracking the Code," we’ll be offering regular "sneak peeks" at its content, which is divided into three sections:

2011 Job Resolutions: Advance Career through Professional Education

As you enter 2011, have you taken full stock of the current state of your career? Are you where you want to be professionally? Seeing your ideal returns? Making the most profits? If you answered no to any of these questions, it's time for a career makeover. There are many ways you can resolve to be your better professional self in 2011, but one that offers serious career advancement opportunities is continuing education.

For jewelry sales professionals, there are a lot of routes to achieve this, and it doesn't have to involve the cost or commitment of going back to school. Many industry associations offer product-specific courses that you can complete on your own time, such as Diamond Council of America's Advanced Jewelry Sales, Colored Gemstones and Diamond courses or Jewelers of America's Jewelry 101 training program.