Floral Designers

• Select flora and foliage for arrangements, working with numerous combinations to synthesize and develop new creations.
• Order and purchase flowers and supplies from wholesalers and growers.
• Deliver arrangements to customers, or oversee employees responsible for deliveries.
• Plan arrangement according to client's requirements, utilizing knowledge of design and properties of materials, or select appropriate standard design pattern.
• Water plants, and cut, condition, and clean flowers and foliage for storage.
• Trim material and arrange bouquets, wreaths, terrariums, and other items using trimmers, shapers, wire, pins, floral tape, foam, and other materials.
• Wrap and price completed arrangements.
• Perform office and retail service duties such as keeping financial records, serving customers, answering telephones, selling giftware items and receiving payment.
• Unpack stock as it comes into the shop.
• Create and change in-store and window displays, designs, and looks to enhance a shop's image.
• Inform customers about the care, maintenance, and handling of various flowers and foliage, indoor plants, and other items.
• Perform general cleaning duties in the store to ensure the shop is clean and tidy.
• Decorate or supervise the decoration of buildings, halls, churches, or other facilities for parties, weddings and other occasions.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Floral Designers.

• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Operations Analysis - Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Floral Designers.