blog.planningpod.com: In a recent survey conducted by Planning Pod, one of the biggest challenges facing event professionals and venues today is finding and retaining qualified staff members. This includes hiring event planning staff for full-time positions as well as hiring event staff who work part-time.
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I think this article is pretty comprehensive. However, I think two of the points here are contradictory. I cannot see how to possibly use your network without hiring friends/family/others you know. I had some experience with an event management/planning company this past summer. I can definitely confidently say that the #1 way event professionals find people to hire. I do see how hiring your friends and family can be complicated. In fact, I experienced this sentiment first hand through one of my employers. With that said, I think it can be very difficult to both hire people through your network and not end up with someone you know and are close to in some way.
With this said, I think networking is the most convenient way to hire people in the event field, but it is not necessarily the best way. This past summer, I noticed that my employers often found out they needed people to work events last minute. In a last minute situation, networking is your best option. This brings up the question of whether or not it is possible to better plan and forsee how many people that need to be hired for any given event.
I'm pretty sure that you could take the word "event planners" and substitute any other job that you're hiring and plop that in. It's not really specific to that job. Granted, they're decent tips, but the article is very generic. One part of the article that was decent was tip #5 (Ask candidates to describe specific examples of their skills). In a job interview, talking about specific situations are much more desirable than talking about broad skills. Yes, you can AutoCAD, but what have you worked on? How have these skills helped you in the "real world"? That, to me, is more valuable than a list of skills.
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