Get a jump-start on your career and take advantage of the many AFE scholarships, internships, and our Career Center. Hear what past students have to say in our video.
Careers in Floriculture
It’s never too early to begin planning a career in an industry where your work helps make the world a more beautiful place!
Career Resources
Find Your Career
Whether your interests lean toward creative arts or sciences, you’re sure to find an enriching and satisfying and rewarding profession in floriculture. This diverse and colorful field offers you a wide variety of challenging and profitable career choices.To learn more about careers in the floriculture industry, download the AFE Career Brochure! The brochure contains more detailed information about various floral industry careers and can help you decide which path might be right for you.
Recruitment Resources
We understand the job market can be a challenging, competitive space. In recognition of this, AFE has provided recruitment resources and templates for all segments of the floriculture industry. Creating help wanted ads and job descriptions can be tedious and time-consuming. We hope these resources will help the industry and its members streamline some of the work that goes into the employee search. As an added resource, we’ve done the preliminary work for you and created customizable templates to help get you started on your search!
You’re invited to use these fillable templates and recruitment resources freely to accelerate your employee search on a local level. In addition to using our content to finalize your positions, we encourage you to share your opportunities with your direct network, connect with your area’s schools etc. to target local talent.
There’s a growing demand at all education levels for students interested in careers in:
- Growing
- Floral Design
- Hardgoods
- Distribution
- Importer
- Technology
- Marketing/Sales
- Engineering
- Flower/Plant Breeding
- Environmental Science
- Research/Education
- Management
- Transportation/Logistics
- And Many, Many More!
Looking for the AFE Career Center? As the industry has increasingly moved toward broader hiring platforms, the AFE Career Center Job Board has been retired. We continue supporting career development through our recruitment resources, internship/scholarship programs, and our Young Professionals Council (YPC) group. Questions? Contact us at afe@endowment.org.
What Students Are Saying
Looking for more student resources? Visit our Student Page!
Looking For Funding?
AFE is committed to supporting research that advances the industry and combats current challenges. This research benefits every segment of the industry. We welcome new research proposal applications by August 1st of each year.
Awarding scholarships for floriculture and horticulture students is a primary function of AFE. We understand the financial burden students face and are doing our part to help! Applications for our over 30 scholarships are due on May 1st of each year.
AFE strongly believes in funding educational programs to promote and strengthen the floriculture industry. The majority of the programs funded are wide-reaching and focus on attracting young people to the industry or are educational endeavors to identify and solve industry needs and/or challenges.