My career goals are to work for a botanic garden, plant nursery, or a nature center. I want to work somewhere with plants. The good thing about my career goals is that they are very attainable for me. It is also good because I am willing to travel and that increases my chances to land a job. One job that interests me is at the New York Botanical Garden as a botanical garden aide. A link to this job is http://www.nybg.org/employment/listing.php?id_employment_listings=895. This would be a great experience. Another job that interests me is at the Denver Botanical Gardens. A link to this job is http://www.botanicgardens.org/career/gardener-full-time-part-time. This is for a gardener position. Another job that interests me is actually a summer internship this summer. It is with Highlands Biological Station in Highlands, NC as a botanic garden assistant. The link to this job is http://www.wcu.edu/hbs/HBSPositions.htm. I have actually applied to this job already. I will be finding out soon whether I get this internship. Another internship that I have already applied for is at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont in Tennessee. The link for this is http://www.gsmit.org/jobsCitizenScienceIntern.html. This internship is for a citizen science internship. Another job I would be interested in is at the Chicago Botanic Garden as a Horticulture intern. The link is http://www.chicagobotanic.org/internship/hort1.php. In all of these jobs, they require to have experience working with plants and horticulture. They also require that I be in school or have already graduated.
I have my Associates Degree in Horticulture. I do have experience in working with plants. I also am currently working for the Biology department here on campus in the Teaching Garden and in the greenhouse. I have had experience with other jobs in landscaping. So as far as experience I do have experience. I also have the education to back up my experience. Not only do I have my associate’s in horticulture, but I am about to finish my B.S. in Environmental Biology. I have chosen all my elective classes studying plants, such as Botany, Plant Ecology, and Plant Systematics. I feel I qualify for all that is required of me in these jobs.
If I had to choose one of the jobs I would want to apply for or get, it would be the one in Highlands, NC at the Highlands Biological Station as a botanic garden assistant over the summer. I have actually already applied for this internship, and I have an interview on March 4th which is next week. I want this job very badly. The reason I want this internship is because it is going to be great experience and a great opportunity to learn more about my field. Not to mention it is located within the Blue Ridge Mountains. I am hoping to move to the area once I graduate in December. Because it is a Biological Station, there are many different areas other than just botany. My job would entitle working in the botanic garden, but there could be possibilities of learning other topics. Getting this internship would give me the hands on experience that I am looking for and I believe this would look fantastic on my resume for my future career aspirations.
If I had the opportunity to redo the resume that I had sent to this job, I would definitely have changed a lot of things. I would have redone my cover letter for sure. In my cover letter, I would have really expressed my enthusiasm more so than what I did. I would have tried to express how excited and how much I really wanted this opportunity. I would have also wrote about my personality more. Not just a repeat of what my resume stated. Just a few weeks ago, I had to turn my resume for my senior capstone class. If I could turn back the hands of time, I would have used the resume I turned in as my resume for this internship. I would have also reorganized my actual resume better. Organization needed to be improved in my education and experience section. However, what’s done is done in terms of this job. I just can only hope now. But now I know how to write one for the future.
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