Where a horticulture worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a horticulture worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Horticulture workers carry out practical activities and assist in nurseries or greenhouses for the production of horticultural crops.
Also known as flower picker, crop worker, berry picker, fruit picker, horticultural farm worker, horticultural worker.
Elementary occupations 62 skills on file 5 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: horticulture production team leader, 70%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A horticulture worker 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.
- maintain the greenhouse handling and moving
- maintain gardening equipment constructing
- prune plants handling and moving
- monitor fields handling and moving
- store crops handling and moving
- nurse plants handling and moving
- maintain storage facilities handling and moving
- execute fertilisation working with machinery and specialised equipment
- propagate plants handling and moving
- grow plants handling and moving
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a horticulture worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- fruit production team leader 62% covered · difficulty 48.1
- crop production worker 56% covered · difficulty 53
- hop farmer 55% covered · difficulty 54.8
- crop production manager 54% covered · difficulty 55.2
- agronomic crop production team leader 53% covered · difficulty 56.2
- garden labourer 37% covered · difficulty 69.8
- groundsman/groundswoman 30% covered · difficulty 75.5
- vineyard worker 20% covered · difficulty 82.7
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Horticulture worker is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a horticulture worker’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.