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Artisans

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  • Job description
  • Hourly wage
  • Job prospects for 2021-2025
  • Sectors of activity
  • Training and requirements
  • Main skills and characteristics
  • Personality profiles (RIASEC)
  • Additional information

Job description

These individuals design and make a variety of crafts and ornaments. Most of them are self-employed.

Environment

  • Controlled ambient temperature
  • Climatic conditions
  • Equipment, machinery, tools
  • Odours
  • Nontoxic dust
  • Humidity
  • Uncontrolled ambient temperature
  • Fire, steam, hot surfaces

Main tasks

Artisan Sculptors

  • Make sculptures in various materials (wood, stone, etc.) using specialized machines and tools.
  • Sculpt ornamental motifs on wooden furniture and various objects.

Glass Blowers

  • Design and make glass objects using specialized equipment and hand tools.

Goldsmiths

  • Create objects (jewelry, utensils, tools, wall pieces, etc.) using various metals.

Potters

  • Design and make functional and ornamental clay pieces.
  • Use clay and a potter’s wheel, then glaze the pieces and bake them in a kiln.

Stained-Glass Artisans

  • Design windows and coloured glass objects.
  • Cut, paint, bake, and assemble pieces of glass.

Musical Instrument Makers

  • Make musical instruments using hand and power tools.

Weavers

  • Intertwine (by hand or on looms) strips of flexible materials to make handicrafts.

Craft Teachers

  • Prepare craft lessons.
  • Gather the necessary work material.
  • Make demonstrations.
  • Teach craft techniques.

Floral Decorators

  • Design various flower arrangements and floral objects.
  • Choose flowers, branches, and accessories to create arrangements according to customer specifications.

Hourly wage

Not available.

Job prospects for 2021-2025

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Job prospects for 2021-2025

Job prospects

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available

Total jobs for 2020

All of Québec

3,000

All of Québec

na

Gender distribution

All of Québec

Not available.
56.1% Female
43.9% Male

Not available.
  • 56.1% Female
  • 43.9% Male

Job types

All of Québec

Not available.
Full time
Part time

Not available.
  • Full time
  • Part time

Yearly wage on 2015

All of Québec

$19,000

All of Québec

Other characteristics

All of Québec

  • None

All of Québec

  • None

Sectors of activity

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Arts, Entertainment and Recreation
    NAICS 71
    23% of jobs
  2. Miscellaneous Manufacturing
    NAICS 339
    16% of jobs
  3. Retail Trade
    NAICS 44, 45
    16% of jobs
  4. Textile Products, Clothing and Leather Products
    NAICS 313, 314, 315, 316
    10% of jobs
  5. Non-Metallic Mineral Product Manufacturing
    NAICS 327
    8% of jobs
  6. Others
    27% of jobs

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Arts, Entertainment and Recreation
    NAICS 71
    23% of jobs
  2. Miscellaneous Manufacturing
    NAICS 339
    16% of jobs
  3. Retail Trade
    NAICS 44, 45
    16% of jobs
  4. Textile Products, Clothing and Leather Products
    NAICS 313, 314, 315, 316
    10% of jobs
  5. Non-Metallic Mineral Product Manufacturing
    NAICS 327
    8% of jobs
  6. Others
    27% of jobs