Items to buy for school

Here are some Items to buy for school that are not included in the toolbox*.

Details of Items will be covered in Class

Layout tools

• 4" Engineer square 
• 6" metal ruler
• 16' tape measure 
• Quality Pencils and Eraser

Specialty woodworking stores like Lee Valley, Langevin Et Forest are better than regular hardware stores for these items.

P.P.E.s

• Eye Protection
• Ear Protection
• Steel Toe Shoes CSA approved

Comfortable steel toe shoes are as important as eye and ear protection, look for CSA certification at any department or specialty store. Eye and Ear protection can be found at hardware store or Canadian Tire...

Various

• Notebook / Binder
• Calculator (or your phone )
• Lock (for your locker)

Kerry Bullis on Global

 

 Kerry Explains what our program is all about.

Kerry Bullis Video

Josée Bergeron on Global

Josée explains what Furniture finishers are all about on live T.V.

Labour Market Information Assignment

The goal of the LMI assignment is to introduce the student to Information about the Labour Market for Cabinetmakers here in the Province of Québec.

Please open a word document and write at the top

• Your Name
• The Date
• Assignment #1 Phase 1 "Information on the Furniture Finishing Trade"

To begin the assignment; open the link Below

 on this blog (RTC/Cab/Com01/FF/Mod01)

The page should open up to the title

Cabinetmakers  NOC 72311

or Click on link below

Furniture finishers and refinishers (9534)

Job titles (keywords are in bold)

In this assignment you will peruse the links under the above title and answer the following questions

1. Is Cabinetmaker (Furniture Finisher) the only word that describes this trade?   

   List other terminology found.      Additional information

2. What are the Skills required to be a cabinetmaker or Furniture finisher?

   Describe the nature of these skills.

3. What are some of the knowledge and attributes needed?

4. What is the estimated median wage?

5. Are there different annual income expectations for cabinetmakers (furniture Finishers) in Montreal compared to Laval?  Compare Montreal to 3 other regions.

6. What is the ratio of men to women cabinetmakers or Furniture Finishers in Québec? Does it differ in Montreal?

7. What percentage of Cabinetmakers or Furniture Finishers are part-time workers? Is this more or less than other occupations?

8. What is the second most popular business sector of activity for cabinetmakers (furniture finishers) in Québec?

9. What do the job prospects indicate?

   Now search the net for this information in another province

   9. What did you find?

   Compare Québec to other provinces at Canada Job Bank(cab)

   Furniture Finishers Click here

     Below this blog, make a brief comment on the LMI you gathered

   click on "Comments" or "no comments"

   10. How do you feel about a future as a Furniture Finisher and/or cabinetmaker in the Montreal region?

   Now that you can navigate these government sites, see if you can find anything else on the web.

    11. What were your expectations and perceptions about this occupation? (think about why you signed up for this course) 

   in a paragraph or two, compare your expectations to the answers you wrote in questions 1 to 10.

   End

 

 

 

How to Get to JFK Campus

Group CMN1-S15

Our class will be a RTC's JKF Campus

Our Shop is Located in the back of the school off of St-Michel Blvd.

The Large Garage Door is the entrance.

If Driving from RTC Main Campus

Or a very short Walk From St-Michel Metro

Transferable skills

What are your Transferable Skills?

Even if you are someone who never used power tools before, you have transferable skills that can apply to the Furniture finishing or Cabinetmaking Trade.

Technical Skills

One can categorize these skills in two.

Soft Skills and Hard or"Technical" Skills 

Emplois Quebec LMI lists Technical skills under 

Cabinetmaker's "main Tasks or

      furniture finisher's "main tasks"

Read the descriptions " Personality profiles (RIASEC) "

Does it read like something you can imagine yourself doing?

Complete the assignment below by clicking on the link below and downloading it.

Transferable Skills Assignment

What do Cabinetmakers do?

 Here at RTC there is  general convention that we Cabinetmakers or Ébénistes are a peculiar bunch.

I'm sure you may have an idea from our title what we do.

For example: a cabinetmaker makes cabinets or does woodwork.
Correct.

But cabinets are also sold in big box stores and people can assemble them themselves.
Also what exactly is woodwork and how many woodworkers are really needed these days with so much manufacturing done overseas?
 

So you may not be sure in today's modern world, what a cabinetmaker actually does?

 

Furthermore, What do I need to learn to enter into the field of Cabinetry?

 Well, Click on the link below

What Do Cabinetmakers do?

The Cabinetmaking Trade or L'Ébénisterie is taught here at Rosemount Technology Center,

part of the English Montreal School Board

Here is one of our teachers explaining what we do at RTC

Click on the link below

KB on Global

post a comment about what led you to RTC/Cabinetmaking