Our professional cooking school program will provide you with the education and tools necessary for success in the challenging field of culinary arts and will open doors to many employment opportunities.
Our business programs will provide you with the knowledge and skills required to compete in today’s business world and will open doors to many varied, exciting careers.
9955 Papineau Avenue
Montreal, Quebec H2B 1Z9
Tel: 514-381-5440
Website: piuscentre.com
Email: piuscentre@emsb.qc.ca
Location: Map
Contact our Academic Advisor
Paolo Della Rocca
PDellarocca@emsb.qc.ca
St. Pius X programs are designed to help you reach your goals and attain the skills necessary to succeed in the workplace. By combining our expertise with the passion that our teachers convey, we've created a dynamic and modern institution.
The Professional Cooking program prepares students to practise the trade of professional cook.
Generally speaking, professional cooks perform tasks related to preparing, transforming, serving and storing food. They are employed in restaurants, hotels, hospitals and other health care institutions, central food commissaries, educational institutions and other establishments. They can also work on ships, construction sites, for caterers, food production facilities, etc. They sometimes work under the authority of a chef.
The duration of the program is 1 470 hours, which includes 930 hours spent on the specific competencies required to practise the trade or occupation and 540 hours on general, work-related competencies. The program of study is divided into 24 competencies which vary in length from 30 to 135 hours. The total hours allocated to the program include time devoted to teaching, evaluation of learning and enrichment or remedial activities.
To apply online, please visit the program page on the AEVS website below:
To determine their suitability for the occupation and the training process, to adopt a customer-oriented approach, to prepare the mise en place and dining room, to explain menus and dishes, to take and process orders, to receive and provide information in French, to perform billing and collection operations, to recommend and serve wines, to provide beverage service, to provide banquet service, to provide informal service, to provide formal service, and to integrate into the workplace.
To apply online, please visit the program page on the AEVS website below:
The Contemporary Professional Pastry Making program aims to train people in the pastry profession. This program is geared towards chefs that work in restaurants where part of their tasks are in pastry making.
Pastry makers are multi-skilled and specialize in creating pastries as well as chef-related tasks. In general, they create a variety of pastries, creams, biscuits, cookies, petits fours, small cakes, traditional and contemporary entremets, frozen desserts, chocolate products, pastry decorations as well as plated desserts. Occasionally pastry chefs may be called upon to make other products such as various breads, brioches, and doughnuts. Pastry makers work mostly in hotels and restaurants. They may also work in food stores, cafeterias, catering or in bakeries.
To apply online, please visit the program page on the AEVS website below:
To develop the skills necessary to complete accounting tasks such as: to calculate and prepare the bills, invoices, receipts, payments, etc. of a business, to manage the petty cash, to produce the payroll, to calculate prices, to accurately complete and verify work for daily accounting tasks, to complete end of fiscal period and end of year tasks, produce income tax forms, and to create an accounting system.
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To develop in the students the competencies required to apply the following principles, rules and methods: integrate harmoniously into the school and work environments; to proofread business texts; to apply a keyboarding technique; to manage administrative information; to understand and identify various management approaches to quality; to manage their time; to design the visual format of a document; to write business correspondence; to use database software; to use the basic functions of word processing software; to use the basic functions of spreadsheet software; to use the advanced function of word processing software; to use telecommunication tools; to communicate in a business in an office setting; to handle bilingual communications in an office setting; to produce and receive business correspondence; to produce documents; to handle requests regarding labour laws; to update files; to prepare business meetings; to carry out common and periodic accounting tasks; to produce business correspondence in French; to translate business correspondence into French.
To apply online, please visit the program page on the AEVS website below:
The AVS program, Secretarial Studies-Legal, is designed to train students to exercise the occupation of legal secretary. The principal functions of a legal secretary are to prepare the documents required by lawyers, notaries or other persons in the legal field in their professional activities. Also, legal secretaries often act as assistants to their superiors. They are also called upon to carry out general secretarial tasks which are covered in the program leading to a DVS (Diploma of Vocational Studies) in Secretarial Studies.
Most legal secretaries work for law firms or notaries, while others work for the legal departments of large companies, for municipalities, for the federal or provincial government or for trustees or bailiffs.
Legal secretaries must be very productive and able to work under pressure, given the importance of time limits and the urgency of certain files. As legal secretaries are often in contact with clients, they must be very good at communicating and establishing interpersonal relationships. As assistants, they are required to observe professional ethics, especially in their general conduct and as regards confidentiality.
The AVS program, Secretarial Studies-Legal, helps students develop the skills required to exercise the occupation and to master the competencies needed in the workplace in a legal environment. This training takes into account all the competencies included in the DVS in Secretarial Studies. In the interest of continuity and harmonization, the Secretarial Studies-Legal program favors the acquisition of competencies secretary.
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To help students acquire the competencies required to successfully integrate into the place of training and the business world, to determine their suitability for their business proposal and the training process, to follow procedures necessary for starting and running a business, to research and process information, to prepare a business plan outline, to plan business activities, to determine market analysis, marketing and sales strategies, to determine the human, material and physical resources needed to start and run a business and to organize and process the information needed to secure business financing.
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The Travel Consulting and Sales program aims to train travel sales consultants. The job consists of interacting with customers, determining needs and expectations and describing travel offers and the agencies' services. The consultant will be able to offer information on destinations, modes of travel, lodging and the costs associated all with the goal of selling travel products and services. The consultant will perform administrative tasks such as reservations, billing as well as coordinating payment for products purchased and prepare travel documents. Excellent customer service skills are expected.
The consultant will be expected to sell travel packages as well as customized travel products (such as sun, cultural, health, adventure, sports, ecological, etc. destinations), cruises, business and tourist plans. He or she will also offer transportation and lodging packages, and travel insurance. The range of travel products and services proposed by agencies is forever evolving.
The role of the travel consultant also consists of informing the client on travel conditions such as requirements to enter and exit a country, foreign currency and exchange rates, traveller security, etc.
To apply online, please visit the program page on the AEVS website below:
The Professional Sales program prepares students to practise the occupation of retail sales consultant.
Sales consultants work in retail establishments, selling a range of products and services, such as furniture, household appliances, electronic equipment, clothing, horticultural products and automobiles. They work directly with consumers to determine their needs and provide appropriate advice regarding the products and services that may meet these needs.
The aim of a sales consultant’s work is therefore not just to sell products or services, but to offer solutionsthat correspond to their customers’ needs, to provide advice, establish a climate of trust and build customer loyalty by offering personalized service that meets customer expectations. In addition to consulting and sales-related tasks, sales consultants may also manage and display in-store merchandise and provide after-sales service.
Sales consultants are employed in various types of retail establishments such as chain stores, specialty stores, department stores, independent and discount stores, and big-box stores. They generally work 35 to 40 hours a week on a full-time basis, and 15 to 20 hours a week on a part-time basis. However, their working hours may increase considerably during peak seasons.
To apply online, please visit the program page on the AEVS website below:
To practice this occupation, students will have to acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and perceptions needed to establish professional relationships with clients on the telephone and in person, sell hotel products and services, take reservations, perform accounting and night-audit tasks, intervene in safety and security matters, communicate in the second language, use specialized hotel-management software, perform reception-related operations in both a non-computerized and a computerized hotel environment and enter the workforce quickly.
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Acquire the knowledge, ability and attitude necessary to become a qualified sales representative in wholesale, establish and maintain long-term relationships with customers, manage sales territories, and adapt quickly and easily to a wholesale establishment.
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The recognition of acquired competencies (RAC) is a process that allows an individual with skills gained through life or work experience to obtain official recognition of their competencies in relation to a program of study.
When an adult student reaches 18 years of age (on June 30th), and does not meet the requirements for admission to a vocational program, passing the GDT is one of the functional pre-requisites that is required to be eligible to certain vocational education programs.
This test offers you the opportunity to achieve a Secondary School Equivalency Certificate. This will allow you to demonstrate the skills, knowledge, competencies and abilities you have acquired.
Another way to get your high school equivalency is by registering to take General Educational Development (GED) tests. GED tests cover five different subject areas. A person must pass all five tests to get their GED certification (certified Canadian high school equivalency).
Evaluation of Educational transcript(s) from other Canadian provinces and / or countries to enter into vocational education programs.
SARCA services are designed for adult learners, who can use them before they enrol in adult education or during their general education or vocational training. They are designed to assist adult learners in choosing and implementing a learning plan in line with their personal and career goals and to provide the assistance they need throughout the entire process.
Virtual Tour: St. Pius X Career Centre (October 1 2020)
