Occupation Atlaslandscape designer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a424aa0f-b3f1-41fb-901f-85e05fed83ed
landscape designer
Landscape designers design and create outdoor public areas, landmarks, structures, parks, gardens and private gardens to achieve environmental, social-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes.
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Job Zone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
RIARealistic · Investigative · Artistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic5.42
- I Investigative4.73
- A Artistic4.68
- C Conventional3.70
- E Enterprising3.65
- S Social2.67
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Landscape Architects (17-1012.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (20)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- advise supervisors
- create landscape designs
- design principles
- develop architectural plans
- ecology
- environmental design
- inspect project regulations
- landscape analysis
- landscape architectural instruments
- landscape architecture
- make drawings
- manage landscape design projects
- perform pest control
- perform studies and field investigation
- perform weed control operations
- pest control in plants
- plant disease control
- review construction plans authorisations
- surveying methods
- topography
Optional (21)
- agronomy
- botany
- building codes
- characteristics of plants
- conduct public presentations
- create solutions to problems
- forest ecology
- green building practices
- green building standards
- green logistics
- horticultural design
- horticulture principles
- keep task records
- landscaping materials
- lead hard landscape projects
- make decisions regarding landscaping
- manage rainwater
- plant species
- principles of landscape construction
- rainwater management
- work independently in landscaping
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 20 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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