From garden labourer to horticulture production manager
10 of the 42 essential skills of a horticulture production manager are already essential for a garden labourer — about 24% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 10
- skills carry over
- 32
- would be new
- 24%
- of the target job covered
- 42
- essential skills of a horticulture production manager
What a horticulture production manager does
Horticulture production managers plan the production, manage the enterprise and participate in the horticultural production.
What carries over
10 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
What would be new
32 skillsEssential for a horticulture production manager 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.
- budgetary principles
- coordinate greenhouse environment
- create soil and plant improvement programmes
- crop production principles
- develop agricultural production plans
- ensure soil fertility
- environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
- execute disease and pest control activities
- fertilisation principles
- greenhouse types
- harvest crop
- health and safety regulations
- horticulture principles
- leadership principles
- maintain storage facilities
- make independent operating decisions
- manage crop production
- manage production enterprise
- monitor fields
- operate horticulture equipment
- optimise production
- plant disease control
- plant harvest methods
- project management principles
- pruning techniques
- pruning types
- quality criteria for storage facilities
- store crops
- store products
- supervise hygiene procedures in agricultural settings
- types of storage facilities
- use agricultural information systems and databases
Other moves from garden labourer
2 roles- landscape gardener14 skills in common
- horticulture production team leader10 skills in common
← garden labourerhorticulture production manager →The other way round
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How far are you from being a horticulture production manager?
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