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Tattoos and staff

How do you feel about staff who are adorned with tattoos?

The question is prompted by a report of a US landscape gardener who had a spider tattooed on the side of his face.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/26/man-who-is-terrified-of-spiders-gets-giant-blac

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Landscape Construction Contractors needed

I am on the look out for landscape construction contractors to build my garden designs. I currently work with a good small group of highly skilled contractors who are great to deal with and really look after my clients but our design work has more th

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Training: BASIS certificate in Amenity horticulture Invasive and Injurious Weeds Module

Are you involved in the advice, sale or supply of pesticides in the amenity industry?

Are you ….

• A contractor who sells or gives advice
• A distributor who sells or gives advice
• A pesticide supplier
• A consultant, agent, manager, specifier and local au

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Career With London Stone

Hello Landscape Juice

London Stone are looking for 5 people to join our team.
I know that this isn't a job site but I have posted here because we always like our people to have experience or an interest in hard landscaping or garden design. If anyone

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Where to find good landscapers?

We are currently growing rapidly as a company and are now looking to build our team. We are currently looking for a skilled landscaper/ team leader and labourer.

Both positions are based in Southampton and candidates must be over 21 years old, hold a

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Apprentice schemes / wages !!

ive just seen this advert on universal jobmatch:
Nat. Apprenticeship Service

Apprentice Landscape Gardener

Job description

Employer: The Landscaping Co Ltd

Description: Apprentice landscape gardener required. The main duties will include:

Construction and

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Lawn care training courses

Can anyone recommend any lawn care training courses that would help me?

I am hoping to start a lawn care business this year - working alone.

I will also be trying do some voluntary work to get hands on practical experience.

Any advice much appreciated.

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Vacancy: Hire and Business Development Representative - Acacia Groundcare - Henfield, West Sussex

Company: Acacia Groundcare Equipment Rental

Job Title: Hire Representative

Location: Henfield, West Sussex

Type: Permanent, Full Time

Company Details:

Acacia Groundcare are a rapidly growing specialist equipment hire company, providing long and short term

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Do you apply pesticides? Consider attending this weed & pest control workshop

If you work in the amenity sector and apply weed and pest control products then you have a legal obligation and duty of care to ensure you are carrying out best practice, operating as safely as possible and doing so within the law.

Pesticide availabi

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Cheapest pa1 pa6 pesticide training

Seems to be a lot of variation on spraying courses just wondered the cheapest training out there thanks live in Dorset thanks

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Do online garden design courses really work?

Have you ever undertaken a garden design course (or other distance learning horticulture course)?

What are your thoughts; was it worth the effort and the expense?

My question is prompted by a question on the Guardian website 'Online university course

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DWP Universal Jobmatch

Has anyone tried using this to recruit staff? I've just set up an advert on it... I was hoping to be able to view people's CVs but you aren't able to, obviously I can understand why, but that would have been useful. Instead you get a list of figures

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Recruiting for a small landscaping business - HELP!

Dear all,

I run a small landscaping business in St Albans (Herts) and seem to be in a constant struggle to find good people to work for me. When I do find them it is then hard to keep hold of them due to the seasonal nature of the work.It feels like

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Landscape Juice to help shape European landscape policy through project HERCULES

The Landscape Juice Network is now a part of the HERCULES project.

Joining the HERCULES project is the result of working behind the scenes for several years now to try and establish a method of empowering the land management practitioner (landscaper;

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Taking on new staff

Hi

As with lots of people it seems 2014 is looking positive. I'm looking to take on an apprentice / trainee early in the new year and would welcome members opinion on the best course of action, experiences etc. Many thanks on advance.

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Employee engagement: Just cause or just common sense?

Engagement is about improving the workplace so employees can be their best at work, which is good for them as individuals and for their employers' business outcomes.

"Many small companies start with a huge advantage in getting their people engaged be

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Employing someone

Hi all,

I desperately need some full time help maintaining school grounds and building playgrounds in schools, but after a pretty traumatic experience with an apprentice this year, I'm really nervous about employing someone, and need some advice/kick

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New Dads win right to share a year of parental leave

When my son Henry was born in 1994, I'd have liked and enjoyed nothing more than to have taken a few days off to be around him and my wife during those early days.

I remember Henry's arrival well; standing outside the Loiuse Margaret in Aldershot on

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Small firms already paying the living wage

Commenting on Labour recent proposals to give employers that agree to increase wages to the Living Wage £1,000, paid through increased tax receipts, John Allan, National Chairman, Federation of Small Businesses, said:

“Our members will be sceptical a

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Can Skinny Jeans Gardeners bring young gardeners into our industry?

The Skinny Jeans Gardeners, aka Lee and Dale Connelly (I wrote about them here) are two brothers who have taken to gardening in a non-conventional way.

Called the Skinny Jeans Gardeners because of the trousers and clothes they wear, the two lads are

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