GoLandscape
General Education
Landscape House
, Stoneleigh Park
, CV8 2LG
Warwickshire
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About GoLandscape
GoLandscape is an education, skills and careers initiative, designed to inform and inspire new recruits and combat industry issues, including a severe skills shortage. GoLandscape aims to provide a wealth of inspiring and educational career advice on landscaping jobs to young people. We aim to provide you with all the information you need regarding landscaping. We can give you all the information you need about careers in landscaping, from how to get into landscaping, including landscaping apprenticeship, landscape courses, to what it's really like to have a career in landscaping. GoLandscape will begin by assembling a collection of real-life stories and exemplar projects from leading landscape industry organisations and individuals. These will present practical examples of what it's actually like to work in the industry that we are all so proud of, and demonstrate why landscaping gardening jobs offer serious career paths that provide opportunities for everyone.
GoLandscape has three main objectives:
1. To inspire Landscaping is a serious career path with numerous opportunities. Whether it's Commercial or Domestic landscaping jobs, Grounds Maintenance, or careers in Landscape Architecture and Design, landscaping can provide fantastic careers for everyone. The industry needs people of various skill levels, from practical and vocational roles all the way up to degree level, regardless of age, gender, or background. Landscaping careers are fun, rewarding, and it's a prestigious industry to work within. 2. To encourage retention We want to introduce landscaping jobs to school children at careers events, raising the profile of the industry, not just within our colleges, but also within our industry. Beyond bringing in new recruits, GoLandscape will encourage industry and colleges to reconnect, so they can deliver the correct training to students, which will boost their confidence before they enter the working world. 3. Addressing landscaping industry issues If school children are inspired to go into further education to study landscaping, and the colleges are meeting the demands of the industry by training students to the highest standards, this will lead to greater student and staff retention which will ultimately close the skills gap in the landscaping sector.
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FAQs
Isn't landscaping just gardening?
The challenge is separating the image of the professional gardener from the amateur gardening enthusiast. Amateur gardening is just a small aspect of landscaping and often only the starting point. Landscapers and professional gardeners are highly skilled individuals and are involved in many aspects including construction and maintenance while working on private gardens, estates and parks. The industry roles include landscape managers, executives, business developers, product manufacturers, architects, designers, and botanists to name just a few.
It's a low paid job isn't it?
A landscape operative often starts on around £15-20,000, but this is just the starting point. With experience and achieving qualifications, this figure can quickly rise along with the role's responsibilities and increase earning potential. As with any industry, those that present a good attitude, are committed and work hard, will be afforded the opportunities of progression in their landscaping career. There are opportunities in landscaping to move into the role of supervisor, project manager or even partner. If you end up working for yourself as a landscaper, you could have even greater earning opportunities.
Isn't it a physically demanding and dirty job?
It can be, it depends on the landscaping job role you choose. Landscapers are very fit, moving and installing many types of materials and using different tools and machinery. Take pushing a mower, you could burn up to 500 calories an hour (the same as playing tennis). If that doesn't suit you there are other landscaping roles you could choose and move into.
Don't you have to work long hours?
No more than many other jobs. The typical working week is Monday to Friday 8am - 5pm and overtime if the project falls behind.