Looking at Events Management for the future

micromary

Maybe I am bit naive writing this. I work during the week. I am very interested in organising events at work/outside work and making sure they are a success. Would love to work at events during weekends and getting some experience as it is a area that I would like to work in the future. I think I could put my language skills to good use. Maybe as per another post that volunteering at events is the way to go (where do you get information on this though?) or I would be interested in hearing from other people who are thinking like me and how they are going about it. Sorry if the post is a bit random but plenty of thoughts going through my head at the moment!!

PaulPinnacle

A good starting point might be to sign up for the Event Management Students mailing list by Cuckoo Events, it seems to address a number of the areas you're looking at. You could also try reaching out to them on social media directly, Mark over there always seemed like a nice fella.

connundrum

As per previous, check out Cuckoo's blog - it'll give you a lot of insight.

Volunteer wise - http://www.volunteerfingal.ie/

Getting to work at it, put your name in for event roles paid or unpaid with any event in your area. I know that the crowd who run Hell & Back are always looking to pay people to help with their events.

My best advice would be to go work for another event company and see what is required of an event manager. I really thought I'd want to run events on a big scale, but it turns out that I'm actually happy to be a cog in the wheel

micromary

Many thanks for your helpful advise guys. Appreciate it:)