Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a curator of horticulture can go next

3 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a curator of horticulture already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Curators of horticulture develop and maintain the botanical collections, exhibits and landscapes of a botanical garden.

Also known as conservation horticulturist, curator & horticulturist, curator and horticulturist, curator of botany, garden curator, horticulture curator.

Professionals 24 skills on file 3 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: environmental education officer, 38%

Fig. 2 · Career map 3 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
environmental education offic… 38% covered botanist 22% covered nature conservation officer 17% covered curator of horticulture You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 3 nearest destinations from curator of horticulture, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a curator of horticulture already covers. All 3 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 3 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A curator of horticulture needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • horticultural design agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • manage ground maintenance management skills
  • advise on acquisitions communication, collaboration and creativity
  • collection management social sciences, journalism and information
  • collection management software social sciences, journalism and information
  • identify plants characteristics handling and moving
  • conduct workplace audits information skills
  • horticulture principles agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • manage database information skills
  • botany natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a curator of horticulture does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Curator of horticulture is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a curator of horticulture’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.