Jules is a carpenter in the renovation industry. She loves her job because it’s something new everyday; the perfect mix of physical work and brain work, working with people and working alone. She says it’s the perfect balance. She enjoys the challenge of integrating the new with the old and finds it to be like a puzzle. Listen to her job talk to find out what she thinks is the biggest misconception about her industry.

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Special thanks to our Job Talks Partners: the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum, Skills Canada Ontario, the Canadian Welding Association Foundation, Q.I. Value Systems, the George Brown College Office of Research and Innovation, the George Brown Centre for Construction and Engineering Technologies, and the Government of Canada.

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