Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a garden labourer can go next

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

Garden labourers perform simple tasks in cultivating and maintaining flowers, trees and shrubs. This work can take place in either parks or private gardens.

Also known as gardening assistant, garden worker, landscaping labourer, landscaping operative, gardener, manual garden labourer, landscape labourer, garden maintenance trainee, garden laborer, gardening worker.

Elementary occupations 50 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: landscape gardener, 70%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
landscape gardener 70% covered groundsman/groundswoman 58% covered interior landscaper 40% covered horticulture worker 37% covered hop farmer 35% covered garden labourer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from garden labourer, 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 garden labourer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A garden labourer needs 25 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
  • maintain plants' growth handling and moving
  • plant according to guidelines assisting and caring
  • prepare sites for planting of grass handling and moving
  • operate turf management equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • prepare the ground handling and moving
  • maintain turf and grass handling and moving
  • maintain ground handling and moving
  • operate hand pruning equipment handling and moving
  • prune hedges and trees handling and moving
  • maintain plant soil nutrition handling and moving
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Garden labourer is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a garden labourer’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.