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How To Prepare For A Career In Event Planning

Endless Events

But how does one prepare for a career in event planning? Today, there are many ways to prepare for a career in event planning: Work on your soft skills, Get a degree, Get a certificate, Look for free content (webinars, podcasts, e-books, blogs), Work at events (as a volunteer), Build a strong network of event profs (join communities).

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Smart Moves in Albuquerque, Denver and More

Smart Meetings

With over three decades of experience in the Hawaii tourism industry, he is well-prepared to oversee and lead all operational departments and to develop and implement strategic plans to achieve growth objectives. Pupillo will fill the roles of director of business development and general manager. Yoshida will serve as director of marketing.

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Think Event Technology Is Still a Man’s World? Think again. 

Smart Meetings

“Our recruitment efforts after the pandemic have been a way for us to ‘build back differently’ and we’re doing that by being proactive about diversifying our workforce,” said MaryBeth Costello, vice president of talent, learning and corporate human resources at Encore. Inspired yet? Williams Sr. No pain, no gain.

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Southern California Trailblazing Women Speak Out

Smart Meetings

Do your homework, go in prepared, present yourself with confidence. This presents tremendous growth potential such that every cog in the wheel that we all are should strive to inculcate in the soul of the industry, in all its facets, from human resources to program design. Be respectful, but don’t be fearful.

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Making Gen AI Your ‘Thought Partner for Innovation’

Convene by PCMA

What emerging AI trends should business leaders be watching and preparing for in the next few years? Workday they create human resource software where you can put in the performance, review the salary, what that person, [say] Ayesha Khanna, has access to which department data, etc. She talked about what that looks like.

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How the Great Resignation is Impacting Business Events

Convene by PCMA

Alex Alonso, chief knowledge officer at SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) sought to put those numbers in context at the SHRM21 Annual Conference & Expo, held Sept. But Klotz seems to have been prescient: According to the U.S. Department of Labor, during April, May, and June 2021, a record 11.5

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Women’s Leadership in Business Events: A Roadmap

MeetingsNet

The second part of a report from the PCMA Foundation and Business Events Sydney provides women in the industry with concrete steps for moving up, and for changing how their organizations prepare women for leadership roles.