Industry Careers Program exposes itself to a wider audience
NGIA’s National Training Manager, Fiona Kelly, has been given a valuable ‘guest blogger’ spot on the SkillsOne website for one week in September.
The SkillsOne website is a site run by the Institute for Trade Skills Excellence (ITSE), and focuses on careers in the trades (including Horticulture). The website is very popular with people of all ages looking at a career in a trade, as well as the educator and career advisors networks around Australia.
The Nursery & Garden Industry have also recently worked with ITSE on a national advertising campaign for Nursery & Garden Industry careers as well as promotion for the new Green-Life Careers website www.greenlifecareers.com.au via the SkillsOne homepage.
The blog, which is accessed via the home page of the SkillsOne website, finishes on September 23. The blog extolls the virtues of a career in the industry and promoting Green-Life Careers.
The SkillsOne electronic newsletter - which will include promotion of the ‘guest blogger’ for the week – is distributed to a database of over 10,000 individuals. The majority of these subscribers are from the Education and Training sector (80%) with the primary users being Career Counsellors. Other sectors are Business & Industry, Government, Marketing & Communications, Media and Apprentices.
Here is what Fiona had to say in the Nursery & Garden Industry ‘guest blogger’ spot…. www.skillsone.com.au
The Nursery & Garden Industry means business!
After many years of having our horticulturists standing in the shadows of other professions – we are now shouting out to all who will listen that our industry, the true ‘green’ industry, is THE place to grow a future.
As an industry with identified skill shortages and a decreasing number of horticulture graduates in many of the specialised qualifications, it seems obvious that there is simply not enough information available to potential industry personnel, careers advisors and parents.
In an effort to make useful and up-to-date information available on the variety of careers on offer in our industry, Nursery & Garden Industry Australia have launched the Green-Life Careers program. With the tag-line ‘Get Out. Get Green’, this program includes printed material, video presentations, an increased presence at careers expos, national newspaper advertising, and a one-stop-shop website www.greenlifecareers.com.au
The website is a fantastic resource which includes over 25 video career examples, job descriptions, career and education pathway information, educator information and contacts, industry facts and figures, positions vacant and jobs wanted pages and so much more. Since its launch in July the website has attracted thousands of visitors and very positive feedback. The content of the website continues to grow daily and content is accepted from various sectors of the industry.
The Nursery & Garden Industry wants to ensure that all sectors of Amenity Horticulture are represented in the Green-Life Careers project, so the website includes information on not only production/wholesale nursery and retail nursery careers, but also includes landscape, turf, arboriculture and others.
So, come one and come all to www.greenlifecareers.com.au ! We are happy to supply careers advisors, schools, individuals and others with brochures and further information on the fabulous and flexible opportunities in the Nursery and Garden Industry. It is THE industry of the moment and one well worth looking into.
Contact me anytime via fiona.kelly@ngia.com.au or phone (02) 9876 5200.
