1- Description of the profession, the competencies required for the labor market and the required skills:
1- Description of the profession: (which the graduate will practice upon graduation from vocational education and training institutions)
The furniture and building carpenter manufactures wooden furniture, models and wooden molds using hand tools and carpentry machines, operates and prepares carpentry machines, and sometimes carries out decoration work and sometimes painting. Carpenters have various activities, including the production and maintenance of wooden products, making decorations, and sometimes painting wooden products:
- Production of wooden products: Including cutting, installing, and assembling wooden materials, preparing sawing, scanning, and shaping machines for wood, producing furniture, doors, and windows, implementing wooden decoration work in residential and commercial buildings, cutting and shaping plastic materials, ceiling tiles, fiberglass, and drywall manually and mechanically. As for the tasks of carpenters, they are different: the carpenter who works as a commercial contractor, his task is related to placing structural concrete molds and erecting and installing scaffolding, and the carpenter who works as a general building contractor, his tasks are many, including manufacturing and installing doors, windows, cabinets, kitchens, and everything related to the production and manufacture of wood, and the furniture carpenter's work is related to manufacturing and maintaining furniture, and the decoration carpenter ( Decoration) His work is related to decoration and wood turning works.
- Decorative work: Includes covering walls and ceilings with adhesive paper or wood, and professionals make wooden partitions and gypsum decorations and install them according to the executive plans, where they prepare the walls and then carry out the process of pasting or covering with wood or making wooden partitions. Workers determine the required measurements and make executive drawings and determine the type of wood and lighting locations and their distances from each other in addition to determining the type of insulation required and preparing the wood to be used in terms of scanning, leveling, cutting, painting, etc.
- Painting woodwork:It includes preparing woodwork, painting tools and equipment, storing and operating them, disassembling and assembling woodwork before and after painting, and painting wooden furniture using a spray gun Brushes and the presence of a paint oven, cleaning the work after painting, and maintaining the paint work that needs maintenance.
2- The competencies required to perform these tasks: (The competencies and skills that are trained in vocational education and training institutions to be able to practice the profession according to the description above)
To perform the previous tasks, the carpenter needs to obtain the competencies of knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for this, starting from general competencies in the field of arithmetic and mathematics to master the required measurements, to specialized competencies in the field of cutting, preparing and implementing various woodwork, to mastering the skills of installation, manufacturing and design. These skills and competencies are acquired through education and vocational training that the young person receives in these institutions. Vocational education and training also provide him with knowledge of the tools and equipment used and general safety procedures. Most of them are characterized by providing the young person with English language skills, especially those related to the profession, and his exposure to catalogs related to the profession. Most of them are also trained in the skills of using engineering computer programs and those specialized in woodwork. Some of them provide the necessary life skills and character building to carry out the required tasks. Thus, at the end of the training period, the graduate acquires the competencies that enable him to carry out the work mentioned in the job description (which are the qualifications required for the labor market), in addition to mastering the modern technology skills that the labor market needs. These institutions qualify him to enter the labor market through multi-term training programs under the supervision of trainers in the labor market. Some of them also qualify him to open his own project through the necessary entrepreneurial and administrative training.
2- Professional development
The possibility of starting as a carpenter's assistant after graduation, even if you graduated as a carpenter, the period varies according to previous experience and the ability to develop, and then work as a carpenter. It is also possible for his/her work to develop over time to become a specialized carpenter with experience, and in medium and large workshops it is possible to develop to work as a carpenter supervisor, and many carpenters create their own work. Income develops and multiplies according to development, gaining experience, and demonstrating the ability to develop. This is what distinguishes a graduate of a vocational education and training institution from someone who joins the labor market without a profession.
3-Qualification for the profession: (training locations, forms, admission requirements, and the possibility of completing education)
1- Vocational training places
Some centers provide training in carpentry and woodwork only, and others add decoration which also includes painting of woodwork, which qualifies graduates of each of them to work in different fields.
Each of the above centers provides internal housing for students from outside the governorate. It also provides short courses for workers in the profession.
2- Admission requirements
There are short courses on demand in these centers to develop the skills of workers in the profession and the unemployed or according to the target group.
3- Completing education
Some institutions are:
- Industrial schools that train through the applied or industrial guidance system
- Vocational training centers that can hold courses that qualify students to apply for the guidance
Those who have completed the vocational guidance can complete their education in colleges and applied universities. Those who have not completed the vocational guidance through their institution can apply for it through private study two years after graduation and work in the profession (some institutions hold qualifying courses to apply for the exam). However, the certificate obtained from these centers qualifies its holder to work as a professional in the labor market without the need to complete his/her studies.
