British horticulture is suffering a skills shortage, like many other industries in the UK and is searching for skilled migrants to fill its labour gaps. However, an article by the leading horticultural recruitment agency AndersPlus, argues that the industry is actually benefiting from the exchange of international staff in more ways than filling jobs.
What began as a need to close the skills gaps by looking further afield for a skilled and available workforce has now become an exchange of knowledge and techniques that will help the industry answer the challenges of increased demand and climate change. And many of those horticultural movers and shakers are moving to the UK from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
“Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans are generally all qualified and appropriate for relevant roles including landscape architects, and hard landscaping with trade skills such as paving, decking and carpentry. New Zealanders specifically tend to fill roles in horticultural plants and nurseries as qualified maintenance gardeners and soft landscapers,” says the article.
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