Event management is one amongst the most thrilling jobs in the advertisement and marketing world. This profession requires lots of creativity and patience from the manager’s side. There is lots of hard work involved in this job. An event manager organizes a professional and properly focused event for a specific target of audience. The event manager needs to go through planning, budgeting, conceptualizing and execution of these events.  This is an exciting career option, which offers flexibility and independence. An event manager needs no specific certified qualification. A graduate with good public relation and excellent networking skill can enter in this profession

Qualifying Exam

To get a job in a reputed company or a corporate firm, the basic qualification required is an MBA with excellent interpersonal skills.  A degree in public relations in masters is also an excellent combo. There are various entrance exams for MBA and Post Graduation course. The basic quality of an event manager would be flawless communication, excellent interaction with people, long hour working, strong networking ability, etc.  As for a non-corporate firm no specific qualification is needed. There are certain institutions, which offer advanced diploma courses in event management.

Who is eligible?

People with a positive attitude, communication skills, confident nature with flair of creativity can be an event manager. As most of the corporate require an MBA qualified candidate, each MBA aspirants must possess a basic graduation from any background of study. More than the qualification they should have team spirit and leadership quality as they have to look in to every small details of the concerning event.

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. They must have creativity and organizational skills. Team spirit and leadership skills are the other prerequisites. They have to look into every minute details of the event. A majority of successful event managers in India are not certified professionals.

How to prepare for exam and interview?

The Event Manager is required to co-ordinate activities for an event. He must be aware of the various steps and procedures involved. He must be creative in nature. For all these abilities it is important to pursue an MBA course. For entrance for MBA course the candidate is required to appear for exams like CAT, MAT etc. depending on the institute.