How can we animate the youth , and more loosely , the entire working population , to show more interest in our sphere ? In a market where the employee , at least in hypothesis , has the freedom to choose and newer multiplication have dissimilar first moment and demands , there are challenge for the ornamental gardening sector as an employer .

Ruben Snoeij and Sietske Bertoen are both training director at Nova College Campus Haarlemmermeer

To get to the bottom of this , the VGB recently organized a meeting at the Tech Campus in Roelofarendsveen , in the Netherlands , where representatives from education and selling , as well as hour managers from various trading company , held a word . of course , they did n’t descend up with a unanimous answer , but in summary , it could be say that there are challenge for both employer and educational founding .

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' Offer perspective!‘To put it bluntly , why would a nestling with every chance within reach pick a demanding job where they have to get up at 4 am every day for meager remuneration and poor working conditions ? As stated in various ways by people in the hearing , you need to offer perspective , and the stiff adhesion to tradition and ' old - fashioned ' horizon on what work is and how it should be carried out could certainly be critically question .

Rutger Overwater , retail project manager at FM Group

From knowledge to skillsThe Department of Education experts present assert on the motive for more competence - based education . The world is interchange speedily , and a classic modeling of education for , say , an linesman , is ' outdated ' , because apart from basic skills , each sector and subsector and even company requires unique task . The teacher has , therefore , become more of a coach . Examination should be much more focussed on completing internship and compiling portfolio , and employer , in general , are send for upon to do more in - house training of their own people .

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Miranda Rijsdijk and Tom Stallinga , both entrepreneurs and lecturers at Hogeschool Inholland

Show what ’s happeningLastly , the importance of give youthful people an former insight into the workings of our sphere was also highlighted . To instance this , Monique van Weerdenburg from Greenport Aalsmeer gave a presentation about all the activities they organize . Through a variety of playfulness projection , students of all age are introduced to horticulture . Emphasis was also place on sector communication . How do we fend in society ? This is a task for party like the Flower Bureau Holland , which , of course , should be backed by the sphere itself .

In conclusion , Rutger Overwater , a young proletarian in his mid-thirties who is employed at the FM Group and is building up a vocation within that organization , made a passionate plea to attract job seekers to flower trading . It was interesting how he , as a young person who chose to plunge oral sex first into trading , was bombarded with questions about his motives and finding .

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The group meeting terminate with a social gathering .

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