From garden labourer to landscape gardener
14 of the 33 essential skills of a landscape gardener are already essential for a garden labourer — about 42% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from garden labourer in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 14
- skills carry over
- 19
- would be new
- 42%
- of the target job covered
- 33
- essential skills of a landscape gardener
What a landscape gardener does
Landscape gardeners plan, construct, renovate and maintain parks, gardens and public green spaces.
What carries over
14 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
What would be new
19 skillsEssential for a landscape gardener and not for a garden labourer. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- build fences
- de-limb trees
- design principles
- ecology
- environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
- execute disease and pest control activities
- horticulture principles
- landscaping materials
- maintain landscape site
- nurse trees
- operate landscaping equipment
- perform pest control
- perform weed control operations
- plant disease control
- principles of landscape construction
- pruning techniques
- pruning types
- put up signs
- transport physical resources within the work area
Other moves from garden labourer
2 roles- horticulture production manager10 skills in common
- horticulture production team leader10 skills in common
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a landscape gardener?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.