Is event management is best course

Event management is fast catching up as a hot career option owing to the increasing trend in retail and marketing sector. It involves:

• Organizing an event with a focused goal for a target audience
• Visualizing concepts
• Planning
• Budgeting
• Executing events
• Working on fashion shows, concerts, seminars, exhibitions, weddings, themed parties, product launches etc.

As you gain experience, you can start a PR consultancy firm to develop press relations. You can arrange youth camps for children or a trekking tour for youth or executives. An interesting area in Event Management is organizing parties and disco nights.

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. He must have creativity and organizational skills. Team spirit and leadership skills are the other prerequisites. They also need to look into every minute details of the event.

A qualified event management executive can either work as a manager in an event management company or as a consultant in corporations or can work independently. One must remember that enormous work pressure; long hours of work quite often beyond regular business hours are all integral part of attaining success in this field.

Remuneration in this field fluctuates according to the type of the event that is managed. The sky is the limit for a successful event manager. While after a course in event management, a fresher can start his/her career with Rs.500-1000 per day, the starting salary for professionals in corporate sector can be anywhere between Rs.10,000 and Rs. 15,000. Once an event manger attains experience in the field, he/she can command fees from Rs.50, 000 to Rs.1 lakh or above per event depending on his/her client.