Message Board - Football: getting started
9 Oct 2011 by banff
Wondering if anyones any advice on how to get started fulltime in groundsmanship, i'm a qualified greenkeeper with 25 years experience and for the past 10 years i've also looked after the local semi-pro football clubs pitch hosting schoolboy and semi-pro internationals as well as scottish cup ties but would like to do this as my fulltime job
9 Oct 2011 by Mike Last edited 9 Oct 2011
Well, not to put to finer point on it, but you might want to apply for a job as a Groundsman if you want to be a Groundsman - there was a vacancy at Celtic recently, there is another at Middlesborough's training ground currently (http://www.iog.org/train-education/careers/jobs/gman_mfc), and other vacancies are coming up all of the time.
With your experience in Greenkeeping, and football pitch maintenance in a voluntary capacity, you should walk into a job in Groundsmanship - first step is to apply, second step is to be yourself throughout the application stages, and the rest should fall into place from there.
9 Oct 2011 by Pitchcare Peter
Banff - a host of groundsmen's job offers on the 'jobs' tag above
9 Oct 2011 by banff
Thanks for the feedback, have applied for a few jobs on here and on the i.o.g website no interviews and the feedback is mainly not experienced in football enough
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