This article aims to show that training in a profession can not be reduced to the acquisition of neutral skills and expertise : the production of a "professional order" based on a set of standards, particularly promoted by employers, actually contributes to strengthen a social order that the Swiss opinion tends to euphemise or even neutralize , through the institutionalization of consensus. So this article does illustrate , through the example of initial training of the Swiss cabinetmakers, the incorporation of a professional identity together with that of a social order.