Meeting, Convention, & Event Planners
Coordinate activities of staff, convention personnel, or clients to make arrangements for group meetings, events, or conventions.
Also called: Conference Planning Manager, Conference Services Manager, Convention Services Manager (CSM), Events Manager
Knowledge:
- customer service
- administrative services
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
- changing what is done based on other people's actions
- looking for ways to help people
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- communicate by writing
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
- pay attention to something without being distracted
- do two or more things at the same time
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Stress Tolerance
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Cooperation
- Self Control
Technology:
Data base user interface and query software
Project management software
- Microsoft Project
- Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
Graphics or photo imaging software
- Adobe Systems Adobe Creative Cloud
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
