<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Floral Jobs | Articles</title><description>Pay, training, hiring and the calendar, written for people who already work in flowers.</description><link>https://floraljobs.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Why florists leave, and what keeps them</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/florist-staff-retention/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/florist-staff-retention/</guid><description>Two different departures with two different fixes. The person who goes in the first month, and the designer who goes after two years.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>hiring</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>1099 or W-2 for freelance florists</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/freelance-florist-1099-w2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/freelance-florist-1099-w2/</guid><description>The label on the invoice doesn’t decide it. What the IRS actually looks at, which floral arrangements sit close to the line, and how to get certainty.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>hiring</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>What a grocery floral manager does</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/grocery-floral-manager/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/grocery-floral-manager/</guid><description>Running a department rather than a design station. What the ordering actually asks of you, and the one number the store manager knows about your area.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>settings</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>The floral year, holiday by holiday</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/holiday-flower-calendar/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/holiday-flower-calendar/</guid><description>Which dates carry a retail flower business, which are quietly worth more than they look, and how far ahead each one has to be bought.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>seasons</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>Staffing Valentine’s week</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/seasonal-staff-valentines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/seasonal-staff-valentines/</guid><description>Valentine’s 2027 lands on a Sunday, which moves the whole week. Who to book, and what to tell them before they say yes.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>hiring</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>What you can do with a botany degree</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/botany-careers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/botany-careers/</guid><description>Field technician to restoration specialist, and the seasonal years most people put in first. Where plant science actually employs people.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>science</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>Seasonal field botany work</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/field-botany-seasonal-jobs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/field-botany-seasonal-jobs/</guid><description>Where the seasonal posts are advertised, what a field season involves, and how people turn three or four of them into a career rather than a gap.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>science</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>What a floral delivery driver actually does</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/floral-delivery-driver/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/floral-delivery-driver/</guid><description>It is not courier work with flowers in the back. What the job involves, what shops are really hiring for, and why it is a way into the trade.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>operations</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>How to write a floral designer job description</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/floral-designer-job-description/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/floral-designer-job-description/</guid><description>Most floral postings are a list of adjectives and no information. What to put in, what to cut, and why the pay line changes who applies.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>hiring</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>The jobs that get flowers where they are going</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/floral-operations-careers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/floral-operations-careers/</guid><description>Processing, cold storage, routing and delivery. The side of the flower trade that decides what arrives alive, and the careers built on it.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>operations</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>Sales and admin jobs in the flower trade</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/floral-sales-careers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/floral-sales-careers/</guid><description>Wholesale reps, account managers and the people running a shop’s back office. The commercial side of the flower business, and why it is not generic sales.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>selling</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>What you get asked at a florist interview</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/florist-interview-questions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/florist-interview-questions/</guid><description>The questions are simpler than you expect and the trial shift matters more than any of them. What shops are really testing, and what to ask them back.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>training</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>Seasonal work on a flower farm</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/flower-farm-seasonal-work/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/flower-farm-seasonal-work/</guid><description>When farms hire, what a season actually pays, and how seasonal crews turn a summer into a living. The practical side of field work.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>growing</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>Working on a cut flower farm</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/flower-farming-career/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/flower-farming-career/</guid><description>What the work is, what the season does to the hours, and how people get in without a horticulture degree. The growing side of the flower trade.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>growing</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>When US flowers are actually in season</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/flower-seasons/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/flower-seasons/</guid><description>Peak domestic season, the months importers cover, and why one national calendar is wrong almost everywhere. How to read it without getting caught.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>seasons</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>Working in a supermarket floral department</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/grocery-floral-jobs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/grocery-floral-jobs/</guid><description>Probably the biggest employer of florists in the country, and the least written about. What the job is, what it pays, and whether it leads anywhere.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>settings</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>How to process flowers so they last the week</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/processing-flowers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/processing-flowers/</guid><description>Most of the job, and the first thing an employer watches you do. The intake routine, the stems that break the rules, and why the cooler beats every trick.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>trade</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>Preparing a shop for Valentine’s week</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/valentines-week-prep/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/valentines-week-prep/</guid><description>The week that makes or breaks a retail year. Ordering, staffing, the pre-sell, and the mistakes that only show up on the fourteenth.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>seasons</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>Working in wedding and event flowers</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/wedding-floral-career/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/wedding-floral-career/</guid><description>The highest-paid corner of floristry and the hardest on your weekends. What the work is, how people get into it, and what the year looks like.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>events</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>How wedding florists price</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/wedding-florist-pricing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/wedding-florist-pricing/</guid><description>The multipliers the trade works to, why a design fee is separate from the flowers, and the costs that quietly eat a proposal.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>events</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>What to pay a floral designer</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/what-to-pay-floral-designer/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/what-to-pay-floral-designer/</guid><description>The salary sites disagree by twenty-five thousand dollars a year. Here is how to set a number you can defend to a candidate and afford in February.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>pay</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>Every kind of place that employs a florist</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/where-florists-work/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/where-florists-work/</guid><description>Independent shops are the smallest part of it. Supermarkets, studios, wholesalers, garden centers and hotels all hire, and they are different jobs.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>settings</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>What a wholesale floral sales rep does</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/wholesale-floral-sales-rep/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/wholesale-floral-sales-rep/</guid><description>The call cycle, the early starts, and why the job is mostly product knowledge. How florists move across to wholesale, and what changes when they do.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>selling</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>How to buy at a wholesale flower market</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/wholesale-flower-market-guide/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/wholesale-flower-market-guide/</guid><description>What to bring, how the pricing works, when to arrive and what to do with a box once you have bought it. The trade side of buying flowers.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>trade</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>How to become a florist in the US</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/become-a-florist/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/become-a-florist/</guid><description>There is no license and no single route. Here are the four ways people actually get in, what each costs, and whether certification is worth it.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>training</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>What florists actually earn in the US</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/florist-salary/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/florist-salary/</guid><description>Three salary sites give three very different answers. Here is why they disagree, what each one is really measuring, and which number to trust.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>pay</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item><item><title>How to hire a floral designer</title><link>https://floraljobs.com/articles/hiring-floral-designers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://floraljobs.com/articles/hiring-floral-designers/</guid><description>Why floral hiring is harder than it should be, what to pay, how to write a posting that gets answered, and the trial shift that beats any interview.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>hiring</category><author>Floral Jobs</author></item></channel></rss>