How to become Event Planner | Career in Event Management

 

A career in Event Management

Event management, a form of marketing and advertising, is a glamorous and thrilling field. It gives you ample opportunities for unleashing your creative potential. Event managers should have a flair for conducting events, a passion for doing it creatively, very good organising skills as well as the willingness and ability to work long hours. Event management is a multi-million dollar industry which is growing at the rate of 150% per annum with events being hosted almost daily. So making a career in event management is a good choice.

The success of an event manager depends upon how well he organized the event and up to which extent he is able to achieve event and marketing objectives. The salary of an event manager depends upon his qualification, amount of exposure to events, media and corporate contacts.

 

 

Event Manager Skills

Event management is a career which demands a lot of hard work, a high degree of energy, flexibility and motivation, good communication skills, strong networking, excellent PR (Public Relation) skills, eye for detail, strong organizational skills, leadership qualities, diplomacy, patience, market awareness and tons of creativity.

 

How to become Event Planner

You can start your career in the event management field either by joining any event management company as a trainee/apprentice or by joining an event management institute as a student.

The advantage of the latter is that you can learn things quickly and become a certified event professional too. What other people learn over several years through work experience, you can learn in 6 to 12 months through certified event management courses. Although such certification is not mandatory to work in an event company one from a reputed institute can be a head start for you if you want to excel in this field at a faster pace.

 

Pros & Cons

Pros:

The immense scope of making money

Growth prospects are faster than in other industries

Frequent opportunities to travel

Cons:

Long hours of work, sometimes through the weekends

Stressful

Too many responsibilities to shoulder

 

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