Experience, Skills, and Personality Traits
Students should obtain as much experience in the field as possible by participating in summer internships, volunteering, and part-time jobs at animal care facilities.
Animal caretakers should have great love, empathy, and respect for animals. They should have a strong interest in the environment. Patience, compassion, dependability, and the ability to work on repetitive, physically challenging, or unstimulating tasks without annoyance are essential characteristics for someone to be happy as an animal caretaker.
Related Professions
- Agribusiness Technicians
- Agricultural Consultants
- Agricultural Equipment Technicians
- Agricultural Pilots
- Agricultural Scientists
- Animal Behaviorists
- Animal Breeders and Technicians
- Animal Handlers
- Animal Physical Therapists
- Animal Trainers
- App Services Workers
- Aquaculturists
- Aquarists
- Arborists
- Beekeepers
- Biosecurity Monitors
- Botanists
- Chemists
- Cleaning Service Owners
- Dairy Products Manufacturing Workers
- Dry Cleaning and Laundry Workers
- Ecologists
- Farm Crop Production Technicians
- Farm Equipment Mechanics
- Farmers
- Farmers' Market Managers/Promoters
- Fishers
- Food Technologists
- Funeral Home Workers
- Genealogical Researchers
- Grain Merchants
- Grounds Managers
- Groundwater Professionals
- Home Health Care Aides
- Horticultural Inspectors
- Household Workers
- Housekeepers and Maids
- Landscapers
- Lawn and Gardening Service Owners
- Life Coaches
- Meatcutters and Meat Packers
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists
- Mortuary Cosmetologists
- Nursery Owners and Managers
- Organic Farmers
- Painters and Paperhangers
- Personal Care Aides
- Pest Control Workers
- Pet Shop Workers
- Pet Sitters
- Professional Organizers
- Range Managers
- Rewilders
- Soil Conservationists and Technicians
- Soil Scientists
- Spa Managers
- Swimming Pool Servicers
- Tattoo Artists
- Taxidermists
- Tobacco Products Industry Workers
- Veterinarians
- Veterinary Technicians
- Zoo and Aquarium Curators and Directors
- Zookeepers