Career roadmap
How to become a Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters
What you would actually do
The tasks Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenterss spend real time on, weighted by how central each one is to the job.
- Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.
- Measure materials to mark reference points, cutting lines, or other indicators.
- Operate woodworking equipment.
- Read work orders or other instructions to determine product specifications or materials requirements.
- Review blueprints or other instructions to determine operational methods or sequences.
- Assemble wood products.
- Estimate costs of products, services, or materials.
- Estimate material requirements for production.
The skills that actually carry the job
Scored on how much the work depends on each one — not a wishlist, a measurement.
- Operations Monitoring3.5/5
- Quality Control Analysis3.4/5
- Monitoring3.1/5
- Operation and Control3.1/5
- Speaking3.0/5
- Critical Thinking3.0/5
- Operations Analysis3.0/5
- Equipment Selection3.0/5
- Troubleshooting3.0/5
- Judgment and Decision Making3.0/5
Would this suit you?
Every occupation leans on a particular mix of interests. Here is the mix Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenterss are measured on — and our free 2-minute Career Match scores you on the same six.
- Realistic7.0/7
Hands-on, practical, working with tools, machines or the body
- Conventional3.6/7
Ordering, checking, following a precise procedure accurately
- Artistic2.4/7
Creating, expressing, working without a fixed procedure
- Investigative2.1/7
Investigating, diagnosing, reasoning through problems with evidence
- Enterprising1.2/7
Persuading, leading, selling, taking commercial risk
- Social1.1/7
Helping, teaching, caring for and working directly with people
Interest profiles from the O*NET 29.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Used under CC BY 4.0.
