How Can Studying with ACS Help Me Get a Job?
There are 3 steps in getting a Job:
1. Finding the opportunity
2. Getting Considered for the Work
3. Beating the Competition and being offered the work
The same 3 steps apply for both being employed by someone or working in your own business.
| Study Can Do the Following |
Examples |
How Much this Helps |
| Give you a Formal Qualification |
Certificate, Diploma, Degree |
Limited with most jobs but important with a minority. Helps mostly with step 2, but little with step 1 and 3. |
| Provide Indicators to Your Value as an Employee |
Samples of work |
Helps in all 3 steps |
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Develop Contacts (i.e. Networking) |
Visiting industry, talking to people & observing things is a big part of our assignment work |
Critical to Step 1. Many jobs are not advertised, so you must be in the loop or you don’t get past step 1. |
| Build up the amount of Factual Knowledge You have Stored in Your Head |
Identifying & differentiating between lots of things –plants, types of animals, different illnesses, etc |
Often impresses employers more than the qualification |
| Build Your Awareness of the Discipline/Industry |
Knowing and understanding significance of trends and developments |
Often impresses employers more than the qualification |
| Develop Your Capacity to Communicate intelligently with people in the Discipline Studied |
Knowing terminology or jargon, Being able to write, speak and listen with clarity and conciseness |
Very important for steps 1, 2 and 3. A good communicator may make up for deficiencies in other areas through their ability in this area. Without this, even if you get a job; your chances of promotion are limited |
| Lay a Foundation in the discipline –so you have a capacity to understand new things, learn and grow within the discipline |
Being able to look at something you don’t know, and make sense of it; then remember it |
Important for step 3, Without this, even if you get a job; your chances of promotion are limited |
| Problem Solving |
Being able to see a problem, think laterally and systematically apply yourself to find possible solutions, consider them and test them |
Can be important for both step 1 and 3 in particular Without this, even if you get a job; your chances of promotion are limited |
| Practical Skills |
Being able to physically do something: build something, manipulate or create. |
Depends on the job. Can be important in step 3 |
VISIT THE ACS ONLINE BOOKSTORE
- Quality ebooks written by our staff
- Wide range of Horticulture titles by John Mason, author of over 40 gardening books, garden magazine editor, nurseryman, landscaper and principal of ACS.
- Ebooks can be purchased online and downloaded straight away.
- Read on an ipad, computer, iphone, reader or similar device.
- New titles published every month –bookmark and revisit this site regularly
- Download sample pages for free, to see what each book is like.
Titles include:
Commercial Hydroponics 3rd edition
One of the worlds best selling hydroponic books, first published in 1991 by Kangaroo Press. Dozens of colour photos, unique and rarely published advice on how to grow over 100 different types of plants (vegetables, herbs, flowers, indoor plants) in hydroponics.
http://www.acsebook.com/products/2232-commercial-hydroponics-third-edition.aspx
The Environment of Play 2
nd edition
A unique and inspirational view of designing play spaces for children. Full of photos, an inspiration for parents, child care workers, teachers, play leaders, landscape designers and park management professionals. First edition was published in the 1980’s by Leisure Press in New York.
http://www.acsebook.com/products/2247-the-environment-of-play.aspx
Trees and Shrubs for Warm Places First edition
A valuable reference for growing plants not only in the tropics and sub tropics, but also greenhouses, inside the home or even hot courtyards in a temperate garden. Never before been published. The book contains colour photos of close to 300 plants and descriptions of many times that number (and largely different to the plants covered in our Tropical Plants book).
http://acsebook.com/products/2238-trees-and-shrubs-for-warm-placescoming-soon.aspx
Garden Design Part 2 1
st edition
Following on from Garden Design Part 1, this presents approximately 300 more photos, and a huge amount of inspirational reading to help you (in particular), understand the different styles of garden and the options open to you as a garden designer, or a home owner.
http://acsebook.com/products/2244-garden-design-part-2.aspx
Discounts offered for students of ACS Distance Education
