Learning Engine: Go Hort Career Seeker

Go Hort taster courses

Find out how you can apply your skills to a career in New Zealand’s horticulture industry. Join the other 60,000 people in hort who are, leading the way in healthy sustainable food production.

By completing these taster courses, you will learn about the horticulture industry, from orchard to fruit bowl. You will be awarded a digital badge, which will enable future employers to have confidence that you understand the context of the hort industry and are ready for a job in their company.

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Introducing Learning Pathways

If you are interested in particular areas of horticulture and want to demonstrate this commitment to current or future employers you can complete a learning pathway. Each learning pathway consists of three courses which help you focus on a particular area of interest. When you successfully complete all courses in a pathway you will receive a Pathway badge. This badge demonstrates your commitment to the horticulture industry and will also provide you with an in-depth understanding of specific areas.

Before you choose your pathway, we encourage you to begin with Orchard to Fruit Bowl, this course will prepare you with the right tools to complete a pathway.

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Choose your Pathway

Fruit to the world

New Zealand feeds the world. In this pathway you will learn how we are getting the best quality fruit to the world while looking after the environment and meeting consumer demands.

Fruit to the world
Orchard Innovations
Kaitiakitanga
Plant Protection (optional)

Orchard

In this learning path you can find out about what happens on an orchard. You will learn how to lead people and solve some of the big challenges facing orchards. You’ll discover how working on an orchard is a rewarding and challenging career option.

On Orchard
People Management
Health and Safety
Plant Protection or Orchard innovations (optional)

Packhouse

In this learning path you can learn about the future of packhouses as well as how to keep people and fruit safe. You’ll discover how we are making sure trustworthy fruit is getting to the customer quickly.

Post Harvest
Food Safety
Health and Safety
Fruit to the World (optional)

Our Land our People

Our land and our people are precious to us. In this pathway you’ll consider how to be a guardian of our land and our people. This pathway will give you the knowledge to make a positive impact on the land and the people who work on it.

Kaitiakitanga
People Management
Health and Safety
Plant Protection (optional)

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Link to the Learning Pathway: Fruit to the world* course

Select individual courses

If you're just getting started, we suggest enrolling in Orchard to Fruit Bowl. If you're not on a pathway you can also simply select individual courses by clicking the tiles below to sign up.

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Link to the Orchard to Fruit Bowl course

Orchard to Fruit Bowl

Link to the Health and Safety course

Health and Safety

Link to the Food safety course

Food safety

Link to the On Orchard course

On Orchard

Link to the Orchard Innovations course

Orchard Innovations

Link to the Postharvest course

Postharvest

Link to the Plant Protection course

Plant Protection

Link to the Kaitiakitanga course

Kaitiakitanga

Link to the Fruit to the world course

Fruit to the world

Link to the People Management course

People Management

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