Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a groundsman/groundswoman can go next

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

Groundsmen/groundswomen provide landscape and lawn services and maintain grounds for private households, commercial and public facilities, schools, hotels, botanical gardens, golf courses, parks and athletic fields.

Also known as park keeper, groundsman, groundswoman, landscape gardener, horticulturist, grounds staff, lawn care specialist, lawnswoman, lawnsman, greenkeeper, landscape worker, groundskeeping worker.

Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 49 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: landscape gardener, 66%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
landscape gardener 66% covered garden labourer 62% covered interior landscaper 40% covered horticulture production team … 30% covered horticulture worker 30% covered groundsman/groundswoman You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from groundsman/groundswoman, 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 groundsman/groundswoman 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 groundsman/groundswoman needs 31 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
  • construct greens and grounds constructing
  • estimate consumption of water information skills
  • plan sports areas communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain turf management equipment constructing
  • prepare sites for planting of grass handling and moving
  • maintain landscape site handling and moving
  • operate turf management equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • prepare the ground handling and moving
  • principles of landscape construction engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • turf management agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Groundsman/groundswoman is filed under Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers, ISCO major group 6. 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 groundsman/groundswoman’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.