Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers:

Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units.

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About the Job

Primary Industry	Architecture and Construction
Indiana Average Salary	$36,920.00
Average Time to Fill	51 days
Typical Education	High school equivalency
Typical Experience	Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years
Current Openings
2 Year Projected Openings (2016-2018)	7,094
2 Year Expected Percentage Change (2016-2018)	5.02 %
10 Year Projected Openings (2016-2026)	31,812
10 Year Expected Percentage Change (2016-2026)	9.18 %

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Skills Profile

Essential (Soft) Skills

Essential Skills to Employers

Attention to Detail
Work Ethic
Professionalism
Critical Thinking
Information Gathering
Decision-making

Top Job Duties and Responsibilities

Performing General Physical Activities

Harvest agricultural or aquacultural crops
Cultivate agricultural and aquacultural crops for harvesting
Apply herbicides, fertilizers, or pesticides
Cultivate lawns, turf, or gardens
Plant greenery to improve landscape appearance
Transplant plants and crops
Irrigate lawns, trees, plants, or crops
Plant agricultural crops
Police trash, garbage, or recycling along highways and roadways
Repair wooden frameworks or structures
Finish concrete surfaces
Cut brush for removal or trimming
Remove debris or vegetation from work sites
Construct wooden frameworks or structures
Move heavy objects in janitorial or groundskeeping settings
Fell trees for timber or land clearing

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Booster Skills & Certifications

Job Seekers possessing booster skills & certifications, such as those listed below, added to core skills are more marketable, harder to find and expensive to hire.

Hard to Fill: Employers find positions requiring these skills to be hard to fill. These skills and certifications make a job seeker more in demand because the skills are not widely available.

Expensive to Fill: Employers find positions requiring these skills to be expensive to fill. Job seekers with these skills and certifications are likely to earn more money.

Skill or Certification	Certi - fication	Certification	Hard to Fill	Expensive to Fill
Customer Service
Occupational Health and Safety
Lawn Maintenance
Property Management
Plumbing
Budgeting
Commercial Driver's License

Related Licensing Requirements

Occupational Riverboat Gambling License (18-0000000026)

In order to obtain a license to work in a riverboat casino, the candidate must: Be at least 18 years of age. Not have been convicted of a felony nor have been subject to disciplinary action that woul interfere with the ability to carry out professional duties. Demonstrate a level of skill of knowledge that the commission determines is necessary to perform the skills necessary for the occupation. Submit a full set of fingerprints. Pay all application and licensure fees.

- Indiana Gaming Commission (3172330046)
- http://www.in.gov/igc/