Agriculture : Your skills

Over the course of your agriculture degree you will develop a wide mix of subject-specific and technical skills. This may include land use and food production and how it relates to farming practice. On some courses you have the option to study agriculture with an additional specialist route, such as mechanisation, crops, environment, animals, business management or marketing. You also study the links between agriculture and its environment and how changes in government and European Union (EU)  policies affect the management and production of food.

Transferable skills are also developed such as IT skills, organisational skills and the ability to manage projects. Project work and assignments also teach you about working in teams.

Practical work that is carried out, either on a university placement or in a vacation period, gives you essential knowledge and experience of working with a variety of people as well as providing an opportunity to put the theory you have learnt into practice.

Consider the skills developed on your course as well as through your other activities, such as paid work, volunteering, family responsibilities, sport, membership of societies, leadership roles, etc. Think about how these can be used as evidence of your skills and personal attributes. Then you can start to market and sell who you really are, identify what you may be lacking and consider how to improve your profile. Take a look at job application advice for some useful tips.