Today’s guest post is by Taylor Erdie. Taylor is a young, enthusiastic, event planner who never fails to make a bold statement. Hey event readers/bloggers, it’s been a while since my last post so it feels good to sit down and start writing again. My last showing on this site was a … [Read more...]
Master The Event Podcast – Internships with Taylor Erdie, an Event Planning Student
For this week's podcast Randy, Andrew and Sean welcome Taylor Erdie, a second-year event planning student at Humber College in Toronto Canada. Taylor talks about her upcoming internship, with a wedding and event planning company, and explains how she got this internship. Taylor also … [Read more...]
Qualified but Not Getting Event Planning Jobs? Maybe It’s One of These Reasons.
I interact with lots of event planning students. For the most part I'm very impressed with the overall pool of our industry's future leaders. Some of them have written guest articles for us. There are always individuals who are simply not cut out for the industry (more on why in a … [Read more...]
Politics of an Internship
Politics of an internship? So many people say they are “not into politics” but the truth is if there is more than one person in a room then POLITICS are involved. Human nature – can’t be helped. One thing we don’t teach students is how important it is to be “Politically Astute”. … [Read more...]
How to Earn an Outstanding Internship
In Ron's last article, The Ideal Internship, he reviewed what can you do to increase the chances of being offered the ideal internship. There are two essential requirements to earning an outstanding internship. You need to be: A great candidate. Known to the people who will be … [Read more...]
