Hire profile: Gardeners
Use your skills as a gardener to get hired
Your hobbies tell a vivid story about your natural abilities. Keep reading for language to use in your resume or cover letter, plus get ideas for jobs you may love.
What you bring
- Patience — a lot of patience
- Regard for the environment
- Organizational skills
- Caretaking instincts
- Natural curiosity
- Persistence to see a job done
- Ability to problem solve
What matters to you
Increase in physical activity, per week, by those who participated in community gardening.
Colorado University Boulder, 2023
What matters to you
What do gardeners want in a job (besides good pay)? We gave a group of 61 gardeners a set list of job attributes and asked them to choose what matters most to them.
Creative freedom
People who garden want to be in an environment where their creativity can also flourish.
CREATIVE FREEDOM REVEALS A LOT ABOUT A COMPANY’S VALUES AND CULTURE.
Opportunities to grow
No surprise, this group also is thinking about their career growth and paths to promotion.
I WOULD LOVE TO BE PROUD OF A CAREER JOB THAT I RECEIVED PROMOTIONS IN.
A low-stress environment
Gardners recognize that their work can suffer when there’s a lot of stress in their environment.
I THINK WORK LIFE BALANCE IS NECESSARY TO BE ABLE TO DO MY BEST AT WORK.
I am passionate to pay it forward and make the world a better place.
HR Assistant, age 29, CA
Customer service representative
Solve problems and help customers
Home health aide
Put your caretaking instincts to work
Educator
Apply your patience and build others' knowledge
Interior designer
Create new spaces with the help of plants
Social worker
Improve the lives of others
Environmental engineer
Make the world better for all living things
Municipal administrator
Dedicate your career to your community
