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If a picture is worth a thousand words, moving pictures must be worth millions! Accordingly, NALPās Industry Growth Initiative is creating a series of videos to showcase industry careers to millennials. Filming took place over the past two weeks, beginning with interviews with young professionals who are passionate about their careers and want to encourage […]
Help inspire others to be a part of the landscape profession by sharing photos of your team members at work. Selected photos will be used to show students and job-seekers about the outstanding professional opportunities that await them in our field. So hit us with your best shot ā and help us demonstrate the passion, […]
Sun Valley Landscaping of Omaha, Nebraska, recently held a Landscape Career Day event atĀ Beveridge Magnet Middle School. Using materials from NALP’s Landscape Career Day planning guideĀ Ā the Sun Valley Team introduced 180 seventh grade students to the wide range of careers available in the landscape industry.
In an effort to help industry companies educate those within their communities about the outstanding career opportunities that exist in the landscape profession, NALPās Industry Growth Initiative has created Landscape Career Day. This event, designed to be held at any time throughout the year, will encourage children, students, elected officials, educators, and others to touch […]
On Wednesday, December 6, Martha Hill, member of the NALP Workforce Development Committee, presented to high school educators about Growing Careers in the Landscape Industry at the National Association of Agricultural Educators Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.Ā The secondary school educators in attendance were exposed to NALPās careers website, www.LandscapeIndustryCareers.org, as well as the National […]
Last week, NALP Staff members Jenn Myers (Director of Workforce Development) and Rex Bishop (Director of Technical Education) attended the 90th Annual National FFA Convention & Expo. The sea of blue jackets stretched throughout the Indiana Convention Center, and out into the streets of downtown Indianapolis, as FFA hosted the countryās largest annual student gathering, […]
NALP hosted 40 association leaders and industry professionals October 3 and 4 for a Workforce Development Summit designed to identify ways trade groups can work more collaboratively and effectively together to attract men and women to industry careers, minimizing duplicating, conflicting, or even competing efforts. The dialogues were enlightening, yet more importantly, they were productive […]
Author Jenn Myers is NALP’s Director of Workforce Development and she spent years recruiting candidates for placement in the industry’s top firms.Ā Find the best talent at the National Collegiate Landscape Competition in March.Ā The search for landscape and lawn care employees can feel like it is a 24/7 job. Ā Are you frustrated and looking […]
Donāt you wish there was a movement that could raise the visibility of the industry and put professional landscape and lawn care services in higher demand? Wouldnāt it be nice if you suddenly got more resumes for your open positions and you had to turn good candidates away? That is what our Industry Growth Initiative […]
Brigham Young University – Provo is the winner of NALPās National Collegiate Landscape Competition, and Tyler Gilson of Michigan State University is the first-place student. Sixty-one teams battled it out, March 15-18, in 29 competitions in Provo, Utah, in events like arboriculture, hardscape installation, wood construction, plant identification, sales presentation, exterior/interior design, irrigation troubleshooting, skid […]
