EVENTS MANAGER CAREER

Hi everyone  welcome  the career

goals where we help you discover the

right career for you in today's video I

will be talking about a career as an

event manager or event planner and I

will be sharing with you my research on

this career path and also sharing with

you different points or different things

that I think are super helpful for you

before you decide to make this career

the definite one I will be sharing

information with you about description

of the field entry qualifications

lifestyle location different career

paths salaries skills needed job outlook

industry profile and also I will be

talking about some other resources that

you could use to explore a bit further

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the video so before we dive in all the

things that I wanted to talk about I

really wanted to mention this book first

this is the careers handbook and I found

it super helpful to help help me somehow

structure or be a guide to this video to

the content that I'm going to be sharing

here in this book you can find 400

career options that you can explore and

you can check out real quick and yeah

they're divided also in sections and so

on of course everything that I'm going

to be sharing in this video is not in

the book because I also took some other

resources like YouTube videos and

courses and so on but I definitely think

it's a really good tool and a really

good resource so let's talk a bit about

the description of the field how is it

so basically the events managers and

event planners are responsible for

running organizing and planning all

these events that you can think about

basically all the big events or even

medium-size event the different types of

events that they could plan are for

example weddings conferences convened

food festivals and any other event that

you can think that needs someone that's

organizing and basically coordinating

that everything runs smoothly the day of

the event in other core responsibilities

of the role could be meet with clients

and understand their needs before coming

up with a band ideas create proposals

for events finding venues choosing and

coordinating vendors negotiating costs

promoting the event and also developing

advertisement ensuring all safety and

health regulations staying on a budget

also making sure that all runs smoothly

on the day of the event they oversee the

removal of the event and the clearance

of the venue and also they have to

research for some opportunities with new

clients to make also new events it is

also fair to say that this career

depends a lot our networking and making

contacts I mean you really have to make

sure that you know the right people and

they know you as well so every time that

they're thinking about making an event

or running something they actually call

you first so maybe it could be even fair

to say that this runs a lot on

reputation and on previous experiences

working with you so if people already

worked with you and they are

recommending you to others this is

really important as well and this is why

knowing different people and knowing a

lot of people is really important in

this job so if we talked a bit about the

entry qualifications for this career

usually lately I would say they're

asking more for a bachelor's degree and

usually they ask for a bachelor's degree

in Hotel or catering management also in

marketing or business but this is like I

said not really a must but lately they

have been going more towards this

because they prefer someone that has a

training or education in some of these

fields or and at least one of them also

another option could be getting a

certificate in event planning and this

is also not a must this is just another

option that you can consider however of

course this is really focused education

and training so it could be really

helpful so apart from the training or

education

you could also start for example as an

assistant you can start in the assistant

position and then work your way up

slowly and learning and only by

experience I would say that in this job

and in this field it's more about you

knowing the industry and knowing how to

be organized and getting some skills

that are needed for working as an Events

Manager so sometimes employers are more

interested in your skills and your

personal qualities than just in your

certificates or bachelor's degree so you

can be an Events Manager or planner but

you can actually be specialized in a

particular field let's say for example

if you're a wedding planner probably

you're going to be only doing weddings

unless you are also trying to change

fields or trying to change industries

but it's pretty different to plan a

wedding and also plan some conferences

for example so you have to have the

experience of doing both if you would

like to be specialized in both but

usually people just go for one of them

so if we want to talk about the

lifestyle of the events managers we have

to also say that they work extra hours

they have to apart from the job that

they do

during the week then in the normal

office hours they also have to attend to

the events and make sure that everything

runs smoothly so probably they have to

go to events that are on late nights or

late evenings that are also on the

weekends or even abroad so you have to

be prepared for those things you just

work extra hours also of course you

could have events there in the morning

like brunch or breakfast or just

whatever event that could be during the

week and in the morning but this is not

the normal thing and also depends a lot

on the on the industry that you're going

let's say for example if you want to go

in the field of wedding then probably

you will have to do it on the weekend

because everyone that returns

the wedding probably cannot just do it

during the week if they work they have

other duties other things to do so you

would be working probably on the

weekends if your wedding planner so

another thing that you should know is

that you are not going to work on one

event probably and that's it you're only

gonna do this all the time no probably

you're going to be working and juggling

different events and the preparation of

an organization of these events and they

are overlapping because they're do more

or less at the same time let's say for

example if you have a wedding on Sunday

and you have another wedding on Saturday

you would have to work on both of them

during many months before so you have to

go to food tastings you have to make

sure the suppliers are ready you have to

make sure everything else is prepared

for those two days and for those events

of course you're going to be working on

them at the same time another really

interesting thing is the location where

do these people work well it's like

anything else it's not really a fixed

thing usually event planners and when

managers they tend to just be around a

lot they're not just fixed on their desk

and just working at their desk all the

time they probably have to meet clients

meet suppliers do some presentations

they have to go around also to meet

other people and to also coordinate

stuff with them so you could expect that

it's not the typical desk job I would

say also you have to take into

consideration the travelling if you are

in an industry or field or a branch of

event management or event planning that

requires for you to travel let's say for

example if you're in weddings I I don't

know

the example of the weddings but if you

if you're preparing weddings then

probably you will have to make sure that

if the wedding is abroad if the wedding

is at the beach and you are in the city

then you have to make sure that

everything in the venue is there is

correct and the day of the event you

have to be there if the suppliers are

mostly around the area then you also

probably have to travel for any tastings

or checks that you would have to to want

to make so it's really important that

you also know that probably it requires

a lot of traveling and yeah I mean it's

not a bad thing it's a good thing and

probably you can also adjust your

schedule to it so it doesn't have to be

a huge problem if you don't like to

travel but like I always say it is

important that you also try to connect

and try to find some professionals that

are already working in this industry and

ask these kinds of questions let's say

for example if you don't like traveling

then it's really good if you would just

ask someone that is already in the

industry and doing the exact same job

that you want to do in five years so how

much do you travel if I don't like

travel do you think this is something

that's going to affect me yeah it's just

trying to find out what it really is

like just don't stay with what I'm

saying don't just say okay Veronica said

this in this video and this is it and

there are many options and there are

many opportunities for you out there so

just try to find out what suits you best

and waterlines best with your interests

with your values and with the kind of

professional that you want to be so the

different career paths that I wanted to

maybe share with you today are these

ones you can be a wedding planner you

can be a conference director you book

speakers that are tracked paying

customers in this case exhibition

planner they help design and produce

exhibition stems then

deliver and install them on-site there

are also concert promoters they set up

concerts and these kind of events and

book the artists and venues they

publicize the event and sell the tickets

to the public and honestly these are

only some options that I'm giving you

here today but like I always say in my

videos it's up to you to do more

research and go talk to the

professionals and just explore a bit

more so please comment below and let me

know what is the part of event planning

that you're really interested about and

what what makes you curious basically

about this career and also remember to

check out the description box below and

the cards up here because I'm going to

be also sharing with you like some bonus

information and bonus resources because

I also found like YouTube channels or

social media courses that I found really

helpful even websites and I'm going to

be sharing them with you so let's talk

about money for a bit I know that

salaries is something that people just

consider a lot in the moment of choosing

the right career for them because let's

be honest everyone wants to at least

make a decent amount of money but the

truth is that I cannot just tell you how

much you're gonna earn and how much

these people earn because it depends so

much on the city the years of experience

the industry the position that they're

working in I mean there are so many ifs

that it's really hard for me to honestly

tell you a number however I've found

some resources that I think are super

helpful and can be some kind of

reference for you so as you guys know I

really like the website from the US

Bureau of Labor Statistics and there you

can actually find the median annual wage

for meeting convention and event

planners and it was forty nine thousand

three hundred seventy in May two

thousand eighteen so in this website you

can actually check out these different

sections and have more information about

these careers in here so what skills

should you have if you were an advanced

manager first you should have good

communication skills to communicate well

with clients and negotiate well with

suppliers you should have also the

ability to coordinate

from teams because sometimes you're

working on different projects or in

different locations it's also really

important to have strong organization

skills to be able to complete all the

small and big tasks for every event

people skills are also really important

to be empathic positive proactive and

energetic and to talk about the job

outlook we have to go again to my

computer show you again the website of

the US Bureau of Labor Statistics so

according to the US Bureau of Labor

Statistics website the projected percent

change in employment from 2018 to 2028

is 7% this means that this is honest in

a really faster than average scale with

an increasing remote working trend also

comes an increasing demand for meetings

and conference that bring everyone

together and although online

communication is very important nowadays

the face-to-face interaction is still a

key factor in human interaction and I

would also like to say that those who

have experience in the hospitality

industry or with virtual meeting

software and social media outlets should

also have a really good advantage and

the profile of the industry usually

includes multiple entry points into this

field it is also really popular

profession experiencing a rapid growth

you have a lot of global opportunities

and a really cool thing is that it has

almost the same amount of females and

males working in the industry and where

can you find more information about this

career well you know that I really like

the website of the US Bureau of Labor

Statistics and for YouTube channels I am

gonna leave them up here in the cards

and also in the description box below

and I was going around to the YouTube

channels of some of these professionals

and also websites and they have

something in common

and some of them are actually training

themselves online so I'm going to also

leave in the description box below some

courses that I found to be helpful for

them so if you want to explore more cool

career options then you can go to my

playlist cool career options in my

channel I also wanted to remind you

about the book if you find that

interesting and you want to actually buy

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tips about career exploration and other

careers I'm going to be doing some

research and just reading online and

websites that I really think are helpful

for you yeh see you