Pick-your-own perfect land-based job

The land-based and environmental sector is an amazingly diverse industry which could provide you with an extensive range of exciting opportunities. From animal care to aquaculture, the industry is just as challenging and rewarding for start-out apprentices as it is for managers and technical workers. The range of land-based jobs in this sector are diverse – you could choose to do anything from floristry to pig-keeping, community forestry to fisheries management, arboricultural surveying to farm machinery maintenance – they all require a wide range of specific skills and qualifications and there are many routes into many jobs. Whether you have a love of the great outdoors and nature, an affinity with animals or if farming is in your blood – it’s the 21st century so you’ll also need technical computing skills, management skills and different levels of qualification to pursue a land-based career.

Land- based careers offer jobs primarily focused on agriculture, the environment and animal care and with the industry needing to recruit more than 100,000 people over the next ten years, there are plenty of new and exciting opportunities within it.

When it comes to growing your career, the land-based and environmental industry has plenty to offer. For aspiring travellers, jobs in aquaculture include working with sea life all across the world. For people wanting to work with animals, there are lots of roles in environmental conservation and animal care and for craftsmen, the opportunity exists to work on hi-tech agricultural machinery. The possibilities really are endless.

The many apprenticeships available in this sector allow individuals to develop their skills in a practical working environment whilst also achieving a recognised qualification and earning money in the process. Apprenticeships typically come in three levels, can take between one and four years to complete and can open the door to university and higher education if you decide to gain a degree or more specialised qualifications.

Work experience and volunteering opportunities are available in the land-based and environmental sector and are a great way to show employees and universities that you’ve thought about what you want to do and that you have an existing knowledge of what real, working life is like in your chosen land-based subject. It also gives you a chance to experiment and discover what exactly you enjoy doing.

Extensive career information about the industry can be found at Lantra.com. The website offers in depth analysis of a wide range of land-based and environmental careers, as well as offering a number of different apprenticeship roles and information on how and where to get work experience and volunteering. http://www.lantra.co.uk/careers