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What were the main 'career decision' milestones in your life so far?
Describe a typical day?
Yesterday wasn't a typical day but it was an interesting day and so instead of making amendments to my annual Business plan I got out in the field. We carry out a lot of training for private foresters so yesterday I assisted our ecologist in carrying out a training day on classifying land into different fertility categories depending on the species of plants present. The species have to be identified and then scored. For example if its heather it has a low score while if it's soft rush it has a higher score.
What are the main tasks and responsibilities?
I am responsible for managing the Forestry Inspectorate in the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine. Together we focus a lot of our energies looking after private family forests in terms of providing grant aid for those wishing to plant forests, put roads in to forests or develop amenity schemes in Woodlands. We also carry out a National Forest Inventory every 5 years and work on preventing exotic insects and diseases from entering the country. We do lots of other policy and EU stuff also.
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What do you like most?
Is there anything that isn't great?
What particular skills do you bring to your workplace?
What subjects did you take in school and how have these influenced your career path?
What is your education to date?
What aspects of your education have proven most important for your job?
What have been the most rewarding events in your career so far?
What personal qualities do you have that helps you in your career?
What advice would you give to someone considering this job?
What are the three most important personal characteristics required for the job?
Have you undertaken, or do you plan to undertake any further training as part of your job?
What kinds of work experience would provide a good background for this position?
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