| welers are very detail oriented and enjoy looking | | | | been designed to help you grade and identify |
| at high-end jewelry, such as diamonds and other | | | | hundreds of different gemstones. |
| precious stones, and many individuals would like to | | | | This program will also give you the ability to learn |
| professionalize their interest in jewelry and | | | | how to detect synthetics and treatments, to |
| thought about gemology as a potential career | | | | describe color in gemstones, to work with |
| option. | | | | diamond stimulants, and to detect fracture-filled |
| Gemology is definitely the key element of the | | | | diamonds. The cost of this program includes your |
| jewelry business as gemologists are the specialists | | | | books, instruments, and materials that you will |
| that grade gems and precious stones. | | | | need. The GIA also has a career services |
| Gemologists must be detail oriented, which is | | | | department that helps their graduates find |
| critical since they inspect and appraise the value | | | | employment. The career placement services |
| of gems and stones. The gemologists use the | | | | center offers assistance with resumes and other |
| information obtained to prepare written | | | | issues pertinent to the job search. Graduate |
| documentation and appraisals for their customers. | | | | gemologists are typically recruited by GIA to |
| For instance, when observing a diamond, | | | | work at their various laboratories, plus they also |
| gemologists will assess its features commonly | | | | maintain a web listing of jobs nationwide. |
| known as the four Cs, which are clarity, cut, color | | | | Once you have become a certified gemologist, |
| and carat. | | | | then it is imperative that you join the International |
| Gemologists are able to answer specific questions | | | | Gem Society, which is also known as the IGS. |
| posed by customers about the characteristics of | | | | This is an international society of gemologists, |
| diamonds and stones. Their additional duties include | | | | which gives its members industry updates through |
| sorting gems and stones, and coordinating | | | | newsletters and professional development |
| inventory control of incoming jewelry items. | | | | courses. An additional benefit is the opportunity to |
| Gemologists may prepare the gems and stones | | | | become designated as a Master Gemologist by |
| for use by jewelry designers. Instruments that | | | | the IGS, which can be earned by taking a written |
| are used by gemologists include refractometers, | | | | and practical exam. |
| which measure the extent to which light is bent | | | | In order to qualify to take these exams, one |
| or refracted from a stone, leverage gauges, | | | | must provide proof of certification as a |
| lopes, and polariscope. | | | | gemologist, which the GIA certification should |
| Career options available to gemologists include | | | | suffice. Once the exam has been taken and |
| jewelry buyer, inventory specialist, diamond | | | | passed, then you will receive your certification as |
| grader, and appraiser. The GIA offers a six-month | | | | a Master Gemologist. Given your passion for |
| Graduate Gemologist Diploma Program, which | | | | gemology, you might want to visit the |
| instructs on topics such as grading and detentions. | | | | International Gem Society web site, which |
| With this programs you will learn how the four Cs | | | | provides a listing of gems ranging from agates to |
| actually affect the value of a diamond. You will | | | | zircons and the details provided include |
| learn how to grade diamonds in the normal color | | | | re-tractability, wear-ability, heat sensitivity, and |
| range and to use gemological equipment that has | | | | other pertinent characteristics. |