Meeting Planner Resume

The conventional and meeting industry has came out as one of today's most important sectors of the commerce. Essential to this field are 'conventional and meeting planners', who schedule and create the smooth run conventions, seminars, meetings and expositions within the budget.

Meeting planners are found in large private industries, in small companies, in the professional associations and at the visitors and the convention bureaus.

Meeting Planner's work can be categorized into following responsibilities:

Site Selection
Budgeting
Program Development
Negotiation
Marketing & promotion
Travel arrangement
Food arrangement
Trade show administration
Guest programs
Reservation and registration
Public relation
Program estimation

In places of work with numerous Meeting Planners, 3-levels of professionalism occur: Facilitator, Technician, and Professional. Facilitator may be given the basic tasks like selecting menus and performing with the selected hotel on variety of points. This worker is generally concerned with physical requirements of attendees. Technician is accountable for managing registration and reservation, choosing and setting up sites, and handling the budgets.

Professional plans and sells event, produces the budgets, and supervises all actions. This is the top-level manager who is accountable for achieving meeting's general goal: communication objective of client.

The sample meeting planner resume will help you to build your own resume for applying to the job of meeting planner.

Sample Meeting Planner Resume

Richard Anderson
1234, West 67 Street,
Carlisle, MA 01741,
(123)-456 7890.

SUMMARY: Flexible, results-oriented, decision-making with the proven. Extensive potency and knowledge in people management, fiscal accountability, problem-solving, strategic planning, communication skills, marketing and research, and customer services.

Professional Experience:

Director of Tradeshows & Meetings (2002 to Present)
ABC Industry

Plan with the senior executives to achieve organizational objectives and goals through meeting and events; plan event patterns to meet the organizational requirements and goals.
Design, implement, administer and estimate more than 90 U.S. and the international meetings, conferences, tradeshows and the events with annual budget of USD 15 million ranging from 100 to 10K attendees.
Make and keep relationships with the vendors, suppliers, exhibitors and customers; negotiate and handle over 300 contracts/year.
Manage 5-professional meeting planners giving performance expectations, feedbacks and training & development; project-run multiple cross-functional groups.

Meeting Manager (1998 to 2002)
XYZ Inc.,

Plan and implement main aspects of a meeting management to include choosing sites, developing the marketing materials, making registration procedures and databases, and offering on-site administration for allotted meetings ranging from 20 to 2K attendees.
Arrange and handle program budgets up to USD 3,000,000.
Discuss intricate service contracts and agree every meeting expense.
Handle meeting vendors to comprise venues, hotels, transportation, caterers, speakers and security.

Meeting Coordinator (1993 to 1998)
STU Enterprise

Investigate sites and the vendors for upcoming meetings and the events.
Organizing housing and the travel requests
Track expenditures and make department reports.
Keep registrations and housing databases.

Key Accomplishments:

Lessen logistical expenses by 15 percent resulting in cost-savings of USD 700,000.
Efficient meeting plannings method resulting in time-savings of 22 percent
Developed and executed industry's 1st ever policies and process manual governing meeting and the events.

Affiliation:

International Board of Director's Member for the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) (2002 to present)
Chapter President for MPI (1995 to 1997)
Member of MPI (1990 to present)

Education:
B.Sc. in Management, University of ABC, 1991
Certified in Meeting Management, MPI (2002)
Certified Meeting Professionals (1999)