About Careers

Careers in agriculture and food demand a fascination for research and development; a passion for strategic marketing; a flair for design; a deep rooted commitment to sustaining the environment; exceptional engineering skills; and a relentless love affair with food.

Alberta's agriculture and food industry needs bright, motivated, skilled people to tackle an exploding diversity of opportunities. Get a glimpse of what a fascinating future can look like - visit www.agriscience.ca and CareersinAg.pdf.

18,000 New Jobs

To keep pace with galloping growth in Alberta's agriculture and food industry, over 18,000 new jobs need to be filled - in the next five years alone.

Can you see yourself marketing Alberta natural fibres to the international haute couture set; creating a landscape design for a major urban renewal project; catering a gourmet extravaganza for the European Culinary Olympics; growing Canada's greenhouse emission credits through innovative renewable energy tools; saving lives with leading edge farmaceuticals; working in top-flight advertising agencies to brand and market food products; giving hope to third world countries through technology transfer?

Launch a lifetime of personal and professional growth. Stretch your limits, broaden your horizons and grow beyond your wildest dreams. Check out www.afpa.com for more agri-food career profiles.

Grow your career - from the ground up

Agriculture careers sprout from many different seeds - engineering, science, commerce, arts - all of them thrive in this multidisciplinary world. Plant the seeds of your future by growing your skills. Alberta's colleges and universities offer a wide range of certificate, diploma, applied degree, undergraduate and graduate degree programs in all facets of agriculture and food.

Study in Alberta, participate in global exchange programs, apprentice on the job, learn on-line, study evenings and weekends - there's a program and style just for you. Many of Alberta's post secondary institutions offer industry-sponsored scholarships and bursaries. Start clicking and begin picking a career that will grow right along with you.

Link up to a whole new future

Click here to find links to colleges and universities which offer certificate, diplomas and degree programs in everything from animal science, bio-remediation, culinary arts, environmental technology, equine, fashion design, food science, golf course management, horticulture, landscape architecture, land science, nutrition management, waste water management and much, much more.