Event Manager - How to become an Event Manager

Event Manager is a management professional who is expert in manageing/organiseing the event  of high magnituted successfully.

Event management has become a very sort after career option in recent past. The best thing about event management as a career is that it does not require much investment and offers a lot of independence and flexibility. Although no formal degree or qualification is required to be an event manager but certain traits are definitely required in the person opting this career ie. the person should have a genuine passion for conducting events, have very good organising ability and be flexible to work for long hours.

Within last few years or so event management has become the most profound form of advertising and marketing. It is being considered as one of the most glamorous and thrilling profession among today’s younger generation. It provides an opportunity for unleashing one's creative potential to a very high degree. It demands a lot of hard work and effort but at the same time offers enormous scope for the building of ones career. But on the other hand this profession is such a profession which demands high perfection, hard work and high level of patience.

To discharge his duties with utmost efficiency an event manager should have good communication skills, be confident of accepting challenges and an ability to understand and react properly to a given situation. They must have creativity and organizational skills. Team spirit and leadership skills are the other prerequisites. They have to look into every minute details of the event.

So to acquire these kind of traits or to tone up the traits if one already has one can go for course specially designed for the professional who have decided to choose this as the career.

Young people with desire and capacity for hard work can get both money and satisfaction and rise to top positions very quickly in this profession. But to reach such high positions one should have to work hard and should have the requisite basic knowledge concerned with this field. For this there are specific short term and long term courses available which one has to undergo.

To become an Event Manager one has to undergo one or more of the following Courses

Event Manager Eligibility

1. Educational Qualification

Bachelors degree n any discipline preferably with social sciences, liberal arts and humanities is required to take up a course in this field.

How to become an Event Manager?

The aspiring candidates have to follow the below given steps to become an Event Manager.

Step 1

Interested candidate has to appear in an entrance tests conducted by the various institutions/Universities etc. providing 2 years of MBA post graduate degree courses. Apart from this there are also short term certificate courses.

However some colleges also give admission on the basis of % of marks obtained in the qualifying class

Step 2

After completing this 1-2 years of course in which one has to go through all the major aspects like public relations principles and techniques, public relations management and administration, including organizational development, communications, and implementation one can join some event management company or start his own business of event management by tying up with the organization who are in the same filed.

Event Manager Job Description

Job description of event managers involves visualising concepts, planning, budgeting, organizing and executing events such as fashion shows, musical concerts, corporate seminars, exhibitions, wedding celebrations, theme parties, product launching etc. of every level .

Event Manager Career Prospects

Enormous employment opportunities are available for Event managers in private as well as public sector organisations. Career opportunities in this field would depend on an individual’s area of specialization. Event Managers can find employment in the corporate sector, public sector, government agencies, tourist agencies, hotels, banks and other financial institutions, private consultancy firms etc.

Besides they can be engages by individual to manage their parties, marriages or any other religions events they are planning to take on. Nowadays they can find work even with individuals like political figures, models and film stars who want their rallies, concerts or shows to be organized with full professional way.

Event Manager Salary

Event Manager one can expect anything between Rs.15,000 to Rs.20,000 to start with. After gaining some on job experience one can earn as good as Rs.25,000 per month and more. Event Manager working thier own  and with proven abilites in the field can get anywhere near Rs.1,00,000 per event. All these monetary gains depend upon one’s own ability to handle the event of high magnitude.