groundsman/groundswomantointerior landscaper
A groundsman/groundswoman already meets 40% of what the interior landscaper role asks for. The move turns on 11 required skills not yet in the profile.
40%
64.3/ 100
1 Share of the interior landscaper role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the groundsman/groundswoman profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A interior landscaper role treats 9 of its required skills as things a groundsman/groundswoman already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- communicate with customers
- perform pest control
- perform weed control operations
- pest control in plants
- plant disease control
- plant species
What stands in the way is 11 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 10 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A interior landscaper role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a groundsman/groundswoman background worth leading with.
- already held manage time in landscaping management skills
- already held transport physical resources within the work area handling and moving
- already held prune hedges and trees handling and moving
- already held perform pest control assisting and caring
- already held perform weed control operations handling and moving
- already held prepare planting area handling and moving
All 10 carried skills, including the 9 the interior landscaper role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 19 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held create plant displays required
- required, not held prepare artificial plant displays required
- required, not held develop architectural plans required
- required, not held prepare flower arrangements required
- required, not held specify landscape design components required
- optional, not held create landscape designs optional
- optional, not held design landscape schemes optional
- optional, not held work in a landscape team optional
- optional, not held perform services in a flexible manner optional
- required, not held plants contribution to indoor climate and health conditions required
- required, not held environmental indoor quality required
- required, not held landscaping materials required
- optional, not held agronomy optional
- required, not held assist in interior plant projects required
- optional, not held enhance landscapes optional
- required, not held design principles required
- required, not held assess risks and implications of a design required
2 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a interior landscaper role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 assess risks and implications of a design skill · occupation specific
- 02 create plant displays skill · occupation specific
- 03 plants contribution to indoor climate and health conditions knowledge · occupation specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 10 skills that carry over
- already held communicate with customers skill
- already held perform pest control skill
- already held perform weed control operations skill
- already held pest control in plants knowledge
- already held plant disease control knowledge
- already held plant species knowledge
- already held prepare planting area skill
- already held prune hedges and trees skill
- already held transport physical resources within the work area skill
- already held manage time in landscaping skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
- optional, not held build garden masonry optional
- optional, not held operate landscaping equipment optional
8 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held enhance landscapes optional
- optional, not held build garden masonry optional
- optional, not held create landscape designs optional
- optional, not held design landscape schemes optional
- optional, not held operate landscaping equipment optional
- optional, not held work in a landscape team optional
- optional, not held agronomy optional
- optional, not held perform services in a flexible manner optional
39 held skills the interior landscaper role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role construct greens and grounds skill
- not needed by the target role crop production principles knowledge
- not needed by the target role ecology knowledge
- not needed by the target role environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry knowledge
- not needed by the target role estimate consumption of water skill
- not needed by the target role execute disease and pest control activities skill
- not needed by the target role grow plants skill
- not needed by the target role handling chemical products for soil and plants skill
- not needed by the target role horticulture principles knowledge
- not needed by the target role implement plans for the management of sports turf areas skill
- not needed by the target role maintain irrigation systems skill
- not needed by the target role maintain landscape site skill
- not needed by the target role maintain turf and grass skill
- not needed by the target role maintain turf management equipment skill
- not needed by the target role manage rainwater skill
- not needed by the target role monitor water quality skill
- not needed by the target role nurse plants skill
- not needed by the target role nurse trees skill
- not needed by the target role operate turf management equipment skill
- not needed by the target role plan sports areas skill
- not needed by the target role plant green plants skill
- not needed by the target role prepare building site skill
- not needed by the target role prepare site for construction skill
- not needed by the target role prepare sites for planting of grass skill
- not needed by the target role prepare the ground skill
- not needed by the target role principles of landscape construction knowledge
- not needed by the target role propagate plants skill
- not needed by the target role prune plants skill
- not needed by the target role pruning techniques knowledge
- not needed by the target role pruning types knowledge
- not needed by the target role rainwater management knowledge
- not needed by the target role report pollution incidents skill
- not needed by the target role soil structure knowledge
- not needed by the target role spray pesticides skill
- not needed by the target role turf management knowledge
- not needed by the target role use gardening equipment skill
- not needed by the target role use technical documentation skill
- not needed by the target role water chemistry analysis knowledge
- not needed by the target role watering principles knowledge
5 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held plants contribution to indoor climate and health conditions required
- required, not held environmental indoor quality required
- required, not held landscaping materials required
- required, not held design principles required
- optional, not held agronomy optional
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.