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Workforce at Risk: Addressing the Jewelry Industry’s Skilled Labor Shortage

The TJS Board has recognized trending difficulties in the hiring and retention of skilled labor in the jewelry industry, from bench jewelers to retail staff to all types of manufacturing technicians. We have been in discussion for some time on how this will affect our industry now and in the long term. Our team felt that due to the diverse gathering of industry professionals at The Jewelry Symposium May 17-20, 2025, this event provided an opportune venue to come together to identify and define these challenges together.

As part of The Jewelry Symposium’s commitment to the advancement of jewelry

manufacturing technology, we hosted a roundtable discussion just before the 2025 Jewelry Symposium opened.

Representatives from all areas of the jewelry industry were invited and encouraged to join this critical discussion. Almost 50 industry professionals, from different facets and skill levels of jewelry making/manufacturing showed up, and participated in two solid hours of discussion.

More to come......