Career Viewpoint MG410: Event Planning Coordinator Research Report

This report provides an overview of a career as an event planning coordinator. It delves into general trends influencing the profession, such as celebrating diverse voices, delivering mindfulness, modified personalization, and thoughtful sustainability. It outlines the required skills, experience, and knowledge, including organizational skills, networking savvy, resilience, adaptability, event understanding, and client service dedication. The report evaluates the career's scope and concludes that event planning coordination has great potential within retail industries, requiring a goal-oriented mindset and adaptability. The report also includes primary research evidence from an interview with an event planning coordinator at Tesco, highlighting technology as a key trend and emphasizing organizational and communication skills.

Career Viewpoint
MG410
CW1 – Career Research Report
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Contents
Introduction.........................................................................................................................................3
General trends influencing the chosen industry or profession.........................................................4
The required skills, experience and knowledge.................................................................................5
Evaluation............................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion............................................................................................................................................8
Reference list........................................................................................................................................9
Appendices.........................................................................................................................................10
Appendix 1: Primary Research Evidence....................................................................................10
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Introduction
To figuring out what an individual wants to become as a profession there are some
crucial steps followed as a profession route in researching. Effective career educations let in
you to get additional entire data of different options and pick which one is extreme notion.
Learning how to examine one of a generous profession track is a capability for professional
receiving into the action marketplace or thinking about a profession alteration. In this report,
we will talk about the career as event planning coordinator. Event planning coordinator are
additionally called the occasion professional or event planner that are responsible for each
term of event planning. The main duty of event planning coordinator is to select the venues,
finding out their cost, arranging and managing all event services, and tracking supporter
approval. event coordinator makes sure that all of the planning is correctly executed. Most of
their work is done on the day of the event. They’re less involved with design details and deal
more with scheduling and directing event staff. They make sure that everything is well
matched and goes as easily as probable. In this report I will discuss about some general trends
influencing the event planning coordinator. The required skills, experience and knowledge.
What changes are happening in my chosen profession as an event planning coordinator that
might impact on the jobs you apply for and the skills and knowledge you need (Ray, 2021).
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General trends influencing the chosen industry or profession
 Celebrating miscellaneous voices is significant event planning trend- as speaking
broadly, society has developed an extra open to number of reviews and interests.
Peoples are now interesting in listening those thoughts that are differ from their ideas.
Thinking out of the box always considered as an influenced topic for event. But when
it comes to event speakers, I don’t think much about. Inviting speakers to my event
from the outside can actually ignite creative thought that becomes more effective
methods for delivering a new thinking (Guccione, 2018).
 Delivering mindfulness in your event is a brand-new event making plans trend-
mindfulness and well being are the biggest slogans in 2022. The things that is most
essential to reviving the thoughts and in fact adoptive creativity is mind breaks
according to the leading professional. I as event planning coordinator give much
values as possible by don’t looking the benefits of being thoughtful. Give guests time
and space to blow, reflect and regroup with hands on workshops, art exhibits or
wellness actions (Hurst and Brantlinger, 2022).
 Modified personalization is a great event making plans trend- in real life and
digitally, customers experience adapted on target ads, emails, and all kind of
personalization. Personalizing a revel in is greater than simply the usage of an
attendee’s call-in resolution communications. But customization doesn’t be hard.
Some of the thoughts to be considered are- before the event, I will ask the attendees to
weigh in on which meetings will be accessible. Another thought is by customizing a
conference app that helps in providing suggestions for activities.
 Thoughtful sustainability is Event preparation trend- I as an event planning
coordinator can build a strategic method that helps in reflecting the events
commitment to the environment by being aware of society enlarged interest in
reusing, repurposing and recycling.
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The required skills, experience and knowledge
I as a successful event planning coordinator are considered as a highly professionals.
There are different types of skill and knowledge that can be found in a event planning
coordination that helps me in planning the occasion or the event. Patience and stamina are
traits that helps in contributing to make me as the right kind of person for event management.
The different skills found in the event planning coordinator are given as (Merritt, Baird and
Clyne, 2020)-
 Organizational skills- event planning coordinators are considered as on of the most
organized people. Must have professional experience regards the sharp organization
of event planning. Budget checking, schedules of client help coordinator in planning.
The event planning coordinator have to recall all the smallest task or the details. The
coordinator has the skills of meeting the deadlines, schedules and delivering and
setting up everything on time.
 Network savvy- all the good event planning coordinator are savvy networkers. The
event enterprises are shortly based on the relationship with the people. As a event
planning coordinator it is a duty of him to get a charge community of various
professions and professional including created photographer, DJ band, lining pictures
and AV decor video and many more.
 Resilience and Adaptability- the one aspect that may be definitely happen
inside the event. it’s absolutely the reality that matters will move wrong. It’s
Murphy’s Law! And once in a while you in no way identify what it will likely
be till the day of. The one of the most important things that event planning
coordinator have is its calm and cool nature. They have the ability to resolve
the problem very quicky which occurs during the management of the event.
 Basic understanding of events- as an event coordinator, my job is to bring the
team together for successfully end up the event. It doesn’t necessary that I have
to handle all the task in the event but i as a event planner have to perform my
duty very well without getting restricted.
 Dedicated to client services- an event coordinator must be dedicated towards
his duties to manage and operate the event with full efficiency. Dedication
towards client services is considered as the one of the useful skills of the event
planning coordinator in order to make things good. It is the duty of him to
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successfully fill up the services of the re clients in order to achieve the career
in the event management.
KNOWLEDGE OF THE EVENT PLANNING COORDINATOR
Knowledge of collaboration- collaboration in the world of event play an effective role in
enhancing the beauty of the event and in managing the event duties. The events planning
coordinator must have the knowledge of collaboration with other organization for performing
different types of tasks like decoration in the event is performed by the different organization.
Coordination helps in reducing the overall cost of event (Hanson and Clark, 2019).
 Knowledge of team management- when all the teammates perform his task with the
team with full motivation, it helps in making the effective and successful event. The
event planning coordinator must have the knowledge of how to manage the team and
motivate the team so that there will be no obstacles occurs in between the events.
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Evaluation
The investigation which exists is helps in event management for the requirement of
several needs. There are many vacancies that are available in the market place in profession
of event management. In this career creative method as well as planning and organizing
events is required. Recruiting of right event planner makes the job appropriate in functioning
in the process of event planning (Safapour and Kermanshachi, 2020). I am looking for a job
to create a professional career in event planning and organization as I have great interest in
this field as well as I have created a goal oriented mindset. Event planning coordinator has
great scope in present time of occasion of retail industries. It creates huge importance in
process of planning for a client (Weldon, 2018). The role of event planning coordinator is in
demand in every aspect of event planning business. In my thoughts I can make a good career
in event planning in corporate industries (Štemberger, 2020).
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Conclusion
As per the above report, it has been concluded that profession of event planning
coordinator has a great scope and its scope is continuously growing in the market. There are
different latest trends for the position of event planning coordinator within the retail
industries. This requires different types of skills such as organizational skills, Network savvy,
Resilience and Adaptability for performing roles and responsibility of event planning
coordinator. Therefore, event planning coordination has great success.
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Appendices
Appendix 1: Primary Research Evidence
Name of contact xyz
Company Tesco
Job title Event planning coordinator
Date of contact 01/04/2022
How did you contact them? Email
Questions asked &
summary of their answers
Q1) As per trend what are the latest trend in the event
planning?
Tesco has said that technology is the latest trend in the event
planning.
Q2) what are the main skills and knowledge required for
event planning coordinator?
There are different types of skill that an event planning
coordinator has such as organizational skills,
communication skills, dedicated to client services and many
more.
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