Work experience is valuable and helps you to build up a network of industry contacts, as well as providing experience of working in the jewellery industry. You may find work experience placements by contacting jewellers to ask if they have any opportunities. 

There are apprenticeships available in jewellery including:

• a scheme for 16-24 year-olds which lasts for up to five years run by The Goldsmiths' Centre
• an apprenticeship available in London or Birmingham offering a Level 3 qualification from The British Academy of Jewellery.