Meeting Planner Careers

If you are anticipating a career in meeting and event planning, you need to start working on your resume.  Here are some tips for writing a good resume of any type, including one for event or meeting planning careers:

1. Use  titles or headings that match the jobs you want
2. Use resume designs that  are appropriate and eye-catching
3. Analyze the advertisement’s job description and identify the key words. Use those same keywords in your resume
4. Identify the prospective employer’s hidden needs. Solve those  needs in your resume.
5. Portray an image of yourself that matches with the salary you are expecting.
6. Generate many more interviews by tweaking your resume and cover letter to address the specific skills each employer requests, i.e. make a slightly different resume for each application
7. List your technical knowledge first, in an organized fashion. Your technical strengths must stand out clearly
8. List your qualifications in order of relevance, from most to least. Only list your degree and educational qualifications first if they are truly relevant to the job for which you are applying.
9. Quantify your achievements and experience wherever possible. Cite numerical figures, such as monetary budgets/funds saved, time periods/efficiency improved, etc. which demonstrate your progress or accomplishments
10. Start sentences with action verbs. Identify yourself as someone who is active, uses their brain, and gets things done. Stick with the past tense, even for descriptions of currently held positions, to avoid confusion.
11. Don’t sell yourself short. Your experiences are worthy for review by hiring managers. Treat your resume as an advertisement for you
12. Be concise. Avoid lengthy descriptions of entire projects of which you were only a part.
13. Minimize usage of articles (the, an, a) and never use “I” or other pronouns to identify yourself.
14. Have a trusted friend or colleague review your resume.
15. Proofread, proofread, then proofread again! Your resume should never go with errors in grammer, spelling or punctuation.
16. Sometimes you need to hide your age. If you’re over 40 or 50 or 60, remember that you don’t have to present your entire work history! Alternatively, if you are young and have little experience, try to highlight other achievements.

Take a look at this sample meeting planner resume, and good luck writing your own great resume!