Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners Go Back to List Coordinate activities of staff, convention personnel, or clients to make arrangements for group meetings, events, or conventions.

Technology used in this occupation:
	Data base user interface and query software

Tasks
	Consult with customers to determine objectives and requirements for events, such as meetings, conferences, and conventions.
	Monitor event activities to ensure compliance with applicable regulations and laws, satisfaction of participants, and resolution of any problems that arise.
	Confer with staff at a chosen event site to coordinate details.
	Review event bills for accuracy and approve payment.
	Plan and develop programs, agendas, budgets, and services according to customer requirements.
	Coordinate services for events, such as accommodation and transportation for participants, facilities, catering, signage, displays, special needs requirements, printing and event security.
	Arrange the availability of audio-visual equipment, transportation, displays, and other event needs.
	Inspect event facilities to ensure that they conform to customer requirements.
	Maintain records of event aspects, including financial details.
	Conduct post-event evaluations to determine how future events could be improved.

Skills
	Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
	Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
	Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
	Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
	Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
	Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
	Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
	Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
	Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
	Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Knowledge
	Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
	English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
	Communications and Media - Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
	Clerical - Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
	Administration and Management - Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
	Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
	Public Safety and Security - Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
	Law and Government - Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
	Sales and Marketing - Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
	Transportation - Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

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Wage Information
	Region Average Entry Level  Mid-Range  Annual  Hourly  Statewide $73,392.00 $35.29  $21.21  $23.54 - $51.58  Bridgeport/Stamford $88,214.00 $42.42  $25.85  $29.15 - $52.01  Danbury $56,982.00 $27.40  $19.73  $21.26 - $33.38  Hartford $64,859.00 $31.18  $20.06  $22.31 - $35.99  New Haven $61,090.00 $29.38  $20.07  $21.26 - $34.98  New London/Norwich $63,118.00 $30.34  $19.58  $20.63 - $34.72  Waterbury $57,146.00 $27.47  $20.09  $22.31 - $30.85  Torrington $54,186.00 $26.05  $18.69  $19.00 - $28.89

Occupation Outlook ( 2016 - 2026 ) Average Annual Job Openings:   200   Employment in this occupation is expected to grow more slowly than average, and the number of annual openings will offer limited job opportunities.

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