JEWELRY CAMP

Clars Auction Gallery is the largest full service auction house in Northern California. The Gallery holds a two-day auction once a month. The Jewelry department at Clars is seeking a Specialist for the department. It is one of the most important departments in the company and generally has two full time specialists plus occasional interns.

The applicant will have four major responsibilities- 1) Ability to interact with clients to obtain consignments of jewelry and time pieces, which includes knowing how to evaluate their fair market value. This may involve contract negotiations, as well as doing written appraisals occasionally; 2) Cataloging the jewelry and time pieces properly; 3) Ability to market the jewelry to potential buyers; 4) The skill to work with and perhaps enhance the abilities of other Specialists.

The applicant will also assist with the many everyday duties of the jewelry department, including research and display of property, marketing, public relations, and administrative tasks including the review of consignor statements, inventory control and various customer service duties.

Approximately 150-250 fine and costume jewelry lots are auctioned each month. The specialist must be able to distinguish fine jewelry from costume jewelry. Each piece must be described accurately using Clars testing equipment, and occasionally consulting with an outside expert.
The ideal applicant:
* Has a background in jewelry and time piece appraisals along with sales, business development and marketing
* Is GIA certified
* Has pre-existing contacts in the jewelry world
*Has Auction House experience


The applicant must:

• Be detail-oriented and possess excellent follow-through
• Be able to work self-directed as well as function as part of a team
• Have strong organization, critical thinking and communication skills
• Have a reliable source of transportation for out-of-office appointments
• Have substantial knowledge of Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel and feel comfortable learning and adapting to new computer software



•Compensation: Salary Commensurate with Experience

Redge A. Martin
President
Clars Auction Gallery
5644 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland, CA 94609
www.clars.com
redge@clars.com
(510) 428-0100x103

Call for Applicants for the 2012 Romero-Weber
Jewelry Camp Scholarship

Application deadline is April 30, 2012.

Centereach, NY, November 7, 2011— Antique Jewelry & Art Conference, “Jewelry Camp,” Directors Edward/Sandy Lewand invite all interested to apply for the Romero-Weber Jewelry Camp Scholarship.
Named for the late Christie Romero and Barry Weber, the scholarship honors the pair’s countless, longstanding contributions to the jewelry industry and provides the recipient with the cost of tuition for the Antique Jewelry & Art Conference, “Jewelry Camp,” that will be held July 27-29, 2012, at the Renaissance Westchester Hotel in White Plains, New York.

“All of us in the jewelry community were greatly saddened by the loss of Christie Romero to cancer in late 2009,” said Jewelry Camp Director Sandy Lewand. “In tribute to Christie, Barry Weber of Edith Weber Jewelry had the idea to establish a Christie Romero Scholarship Fund for Jewelry Camp. Yet, just one year later, Barry, too, succumbed to the disease. To carry on Christie’s and Barry’s remarkable legacies, Edward and I will continue to offer this memorial scholarship, which we have renamed the Romero-Weber Jewelry Camp Scholarship Fund.”

Applicants for the 2012 Romero-Weber Jewelry Camp Scholarship must compose a brief essay or email that explains why he or she should be selected to receive the award. All applications should be sent to jewelrycamp@me.com no later than April 30, 2012. The award recipient will be announced in May to allow ample time to make arrangements to attend the conference. While the scholarship covers Jewelry Camp tuition, the costs of lodging, travel, and food remain the responsibility of the recipient.

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About Jewelry Camp
Open to jewelry-industry professionals, collectors, and the public, Jewelry Camp is an educational forum focused on antique and estate jewelry and comprises three days of lectures, breakout groups, and networking events. Participants have opportunities to meet and learn from top experts in buying, selling, appraising, and collecting. This year’s featured speakers will include Donna Bilak, a 19th- and early 20th-century jewelry historian; Education Director for the Phoenix Museum of Art, Jan Krulik-Belin; and Roy Rover of Roy Rover Antiques.

For more information about Jewelry Camp, visit: http://www.jewelrycamp.org and http://jewelrycamp.blogspot.com/.

For more information regarding the 2012 Romero-Weber Jewelry Camp Scholarship, please email: jewelrycamp@me.com.

The Antique Jewelry & Art Conference – “Jewelry Camp”
(631) 471-1922 or (631) 377-9766
Email: jewelrycamp@me.com
www.jewelrycamp.org
 

Position: Training Manager, Jewelry & Watches - Americas  
Reporting to: Director, Training – Global Sales
Location: Miami, FL (Preferred) or New York City
 
I. Job Summary:
 
Reporting to the Director, Training – Global Sales, the primary purpose of the Training Manager, Jewelry & Watches is to deliver training courses to the Retail and Wholesale sales organizations in the Americas.  The Global Sales Training Department is responsible for developing skills in all Salon Directors and Sales Executives that will increase corporate revenues.
 
 
II. Key Duties Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
 
·        Understand brand’s DNA and heritage as well as current evolution of the brand
·        Knowledgeable about all product lines and their history within the brand
·        Master the content and delivery of key training courses offered by the Global Sales Training Department
·        Deliver training courses to retail and wholesale staff in the Americas
·        Manage administration of each training course delivered:
o       Scheduling of courses and invitations
o       Manage booking conference rooms/refreshments/meals when delivering offsite and on site(corporate headquarters) courses
o       Monitor acceptances
o       Generate name tags for participants
o       Publish attendee list
o       Generate course completion certificates and distribute to participants
o       Manage course evaluations:
§         Solicit &
§         Input data to Global Sales Training Department records
o       Responsible for organizing course files including all course updates
o       Generate a feedback report on each course:
§         Evaluation of each participant’s skills by course content
§         Recommendation for additional training for a participant
·        Recommend revisions/corrections in training materials and exercises
·        Participate and contribute to brainstorming sessions to develop new training courses to meet business needs as they evolve
·        Manage own travel arrangements and T&E budget
     
 
            III. Key Job Relationships:
          
·        Director, Training Department Global Sales
o       Provide administrative support for key training initiatives as dictated by business needs and objectives
·        Global Training Team
o       Share best practices for each course delivered
o       Course design and development
·        Salon Directors
o       Liaise on training and providing feedback on training results
o       Advise on next steps for each Sales Executive’s further skill development
·        Sales Executives
o       Build relationships to better understand real world sales situations and training needs
·        Marketing and Communications Departments
o       Implement guidelines from these departments at the salon level through training
·        Human Resources
o       Collaborate to address and develop additional training opportunities for delivery to the sales organization such as leadership development & management skills
 
 
IV. Job Qualifications:
         
·        Bachelor’s Degree
·        3 to 5 years of successful retail sales experience, preferably in luxury goods
·        5 to 8 years of successful training experience
·        Excellent presentation and coaching skills
·        Fluent in Spanish
·        Strong PowerPoint & Excel skills
 
 
 
Stephanie McKee, Director, U.S. Human Resources
smckee@harrywinston.com
WWW.HARRYWINSTON.COM
Tel: +1 212-315-7918
Fax: +1 212-581-2948
Harry Winston, Inc. | 1330 Avenue of the Americas | New York | NY | 10019 | United States |
 

 
 
February 16th, 2012
Fine Diamonds Auction

More than 50 Lots of Fine Diamonds
& Estate Jewels
 
 
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