Twice more employment!

One of the most dynamic sectors of employment in Quebec at present is that of industries of the doors and windows, the piece of furniture and the cupboards of kitchen. For five years, these three industries have known a phenomenal growth. The technological turn and the increase in exports are the principal factors which explain this effervescence.

The companies frm Quebec works for these three industries widened their market and took expansion much more. They made important bored in the international market. For example, during eight last years, the proportion of exports of the sector of the piece of furniture has triplet and that of the sector of the doors and windows and the cupboards of kitchen has quintuplet.

The areas supported during five last years, recruitment increased by 50 %, and 12 000 jobs were created in these three industries. In the industry of the piece of furniture for example, there were 11 000 uses of production in 1992. Today, one counts some more than 20 000. This sector of employment gathers now more than 35 000 workers and workers and 2400 companies in Quebec. The principal engine of growth is the mass production. In the sector of the piece of furniture, for example, the companies of mass production generate more than 80 % of the production in the province.

The companies of manufacture of doors and windows, pieces of furniture and cupboards of kitchen are found everywhere in Quebec: Mauricie, Montérégie, Quebec, the Boiler-Appalachian Mountains, Laurentides, Lanaudière, Estrie, Laval and Montreal. The prospects for employment are thus excellent in all the province. Reinforcements requested! Currently, nearly 70 % of the companies of this branch of industry try to carry out the recruitment of qualified personnel. It is what the Investigation into the characteristics of hand-made reveals that has just carried out the sectoral Committee of hand-made industries of the doors and windows, piece of furniture and cupboards of kitchen. This investigation also reveals that these three industries know significant shortages of qualified hand-made .Among the most required specialists are them: of pieces of furniture of machines with numerical controls?peintres-finishers of pieces of furniture directeurs of production.

The growth of the companies allows to graduates levels secondary, collegial and university to enter with a stimulative career. The rare pearls are the candidates who control targeted competences. Several trades and professions which recruit require a solid vocational training or technical. Unfortunately, the formations which lead to specific employment in these sectors are not very popular yet to the young people. That causes a lack of hand-made which slows down the development of the companies. The employers thus need reinforcements to continue their growth. You inform! To know some more about the most required professions of this sector of employment, consult the guide Réussir its future the trades of industries of the doors and windows, the piece of furniture and the cupboards of kitchen, published with the Editions My Career. Launched a few days ago, this reference work presents an about sixty portraits of people exerting a trade or a profession in this sector in full boiling! This guide is now available in bookshop.

Also consult the organization-keys of industry: Sectoral committee of industries of the doors and windows, the piece of furniture and the cupboards of kitchen http://www.clicemplois.net

Association of the manufacturers of pieces of furniture of Quebec http://www.afmq.com/fr/associat/index.html Employment-Quebec