How to hire floral designers

Job description template

Copy it, fill in the brackets, and remove anything that does not fit your job. Keep only must-haves you would really turn someone away for.

[Job title] at [Company name]
[City, State] · [Full-time / Part-time] · [Pay range]

About the role
[Two or three sentences about your team, the work and why it matters.]

What you will do
• Confer with clients regarding price and type of arrangement desired and the date, time, and place of delivery.
• Deliver arrangements to customers, or oversee employees responsible for deliveries.
• Perform office and retail service duties, such as keeping financial records, serving customers, answering telephones, selling giftware items, and receiving payment.
• Plan arrangement according to client's requirements, using knowledge of design and properties of materials, or select appropriate standard design pattern.
• Select flora and foliage for arrangements, working with numerous combinations to synthesize and develop new creations.
• Trim material and arrange bouquets, wreaths, terrariums, and other items, using trimmers, shapers, wire, pins, floral tape, foam, and other materials.
• Water plants, and cut, condition, and clean flowers and foliage for storage.
• Wrap and price completed arrangements.

What you bring
• [Required license, certification or years of experience, if any]
• [Education, only if you truly need it. Typical to start in this job: High school diploma or equivalent]
• Strong active listening, speaking, critical thinking and monitoring skills
• Working knowledge of customer and personal service, production and processing and English Language
• [Anything else you would really turn someone away for]

Pay and benefits
[Pay range]. For reference, the U.S. median for this job is $17.96 an hour ($37,360 a year).
[Benefits, schedule and anything else candidates should know.]

How to apply
[Apply on JAI Bot. Every applicant hears back.]

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Interview questions for floral designers

Ask every candidate the same questions, in the same order, and write down what they say. Questions about past work show what someone has actually done.

1. Tell me about a time you had to confer with clients regarding price and type of arrangement desired and the date, time, and place of delivery. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
2. Tell me about a time you had to deliver arrangements to customers, or oversee employees responsible for deliveries. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
3. Tell me about a time you had to perform office and retail service duties, such as keeping financial records, serving customers, answering telephones, selling giftware items, and receiving payment. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
4. Tell me about a time you had to plan arrangement according to client's requirements, using knowledge of design and properties of materials, or select appropriate standard design pattern. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
5. Tell me about a time you had to understand a request or problem that was explained poorly. How did you make sure you got it right?
6. Explain something technical from your last job as you would to a new coworker.
7. Describe a decision at work where the obvious answer was wrong. How did you work out the better choice?
8. Why this job, and why now? What would make you stay here for the long term?

Good answers name a real situation, what the person did themselves and what happened. Avoid questions about age, family plans, religion, health, national origin or anything else unrelated to the job.

What floral designers do

• Confer with clients regarding price and type of arrangement desired and the date, time, and place of delivery.
• Deliver arrangements to customers, or oversee employees responsible for deliveries.
• Perform office and retail service duties, such as keeping financial records, serving customers, answering telephones, selling giftware items, and receiving payment.
• Plan arrangement according to client's requirements, using knowledge of design and properties of materials, or select appropriate standard design pattern.
• Select flora and foliage for arrangements, working with numerous combinations to synthesize and develop new creations.
• Trim material and arrange bouquets, wreaths, terrariums, and other items, using trimmers, shapers, wire, pins, floral tape, foam, and other materials.
• Water plants, and cut, condition, and clean flowers and foliage for storage.
• Wrap and price completed arrangements.

Skills that matter most

Active ListeningSpeakingCritical ThinkingMonitoringCustomer and Personal ServiceProduction and ProcessingEnglish Language

Education, experience and outlook for floral designers

• Typical education to start: High school diploma or equivalent (BLS)
• Related work experience most have: 6 months to 1 year (O*NET)
• Training on the job: Moderate-term on-the-job training (BLS)
• Job outlook: -5.6% over ten years, declining · about 5,200 openings a year (BLS)

What to pay floral designers

Pay depends a lot on where the job is. Highest and lowest median yearly pay by state:

See floral designers pay in every state

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Job duties and skills: O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license; O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JAI Bot has modified this information; USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Pay: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, May 2025. Interview questions and the job description template: JAI Bot, based on the duties and skills above.