CAREER PATHS YOU CAN TAKE AFTER STUDYING A CERTIFICATE III IN HORTICULTURE
Have you considered a hands on career, with the option to work in the fresh air that incorporates creativity and science? Studying horticulture could be for you. In a broad, progressive ever-expanding industry, horticulture offers a number of challenging roles with plenty of room for personal and career growth.
Discover some of the most rewarding career paths horticulture has to offer.
HORTICULTURAL TECHNICIAN
As a horticultural technician, you’ll be responsible for planting, nurturing and maintaining plant life in a wide variety of industries, including food, medicine, educational and decorative. You may also play a role in diagnosing and treating plant diseases.
LANDSCAPE DESIGNER
Using your skills to combine landscape and horticulture, you’ll create gardens that aspire to aesthetic objectives whilst also ensuring that the landscape has the correct soils, plants and maintenance to thrive long-term. Your clients could range from corporations, to governments or even private clients.
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
With a Certificate III in Horticulture, you might wish to flex your entrepreneurial muscle, and branch into a sector of business that pulls from your horticulture skills and know-how. Examples include setting up a farm, opening a nursery or establishing your own landscaping practice.
PLANT PATHOLOGIST
If you’re not interested in working outdoors, plant pathology may be an ideal career path for you. As a plant pathologist, you’ll conduct experiments and tests to determine the diseases and their characteristics that may be a threat to plants.
You may also develop new strains of plants that are disease-resistant and contribute to society through the avenue of food production.
PEST MANAGEMENT
Experience in horticulture is the ideal introduction to a career in pest management. With a thorough understanding of horticulture and plant mechanics, you will be able to assist farm and garden owners to protect their flora from pests.
If you are interested in learning more about our Certificate III in Horticulture (AHC30716), contact us on info@sia.edu.au or call us directly on 1300 790 265.