Employers

• A department just advised you with less than 12 weeks notice about a 3-day program. Your meeting planners currently have other programs during this same time period. You could use an additional planner in-house on a temporary basis.
  
• With the number of trade shows on your current schedule, you require a seasoned trade show manager to coordinate the pre-planning logistics and on-site management.
  
• Budget and time constraints make it impossible for you to send staff from your office to coordinate your multi-city product launch or seminar series. You need to find qualified planners who can act as on-site managers in each city.
  
• One of your planners will be out on maternity or disability leave. These are executive level meetings and can’t be outsourced. What you need to find is a senior level planner to work in-house for 3-4 months.
  
• You finally received approval to fill a full-time position. The last search process took months and you had a difficult time finding good candidates. If only there was someone who could expediently provide a select group of pre-screened, qualified candidates.

Job Seekers

• The memo arrived that your company is going through a reorganization and the meeting services department is being eliminated.
  
• You’ve been in your current position for several years. The only room for upward mobility is your manager’s position, and he or she isn’t leaving.
  
• No longer content doing meeting or event planning as only a portion of your job, you’re uncertain how to land a full-time meeting planning position.
  
• You’re looking for an entry-level position but don’t know where to look.
  
• You’ve decided contract work would be more satisfying than a full-time job, but haven’t any idea how to find short-term assignments.
  
• As an independent planner, you realize that you’ve got several months when you could work as a temporary in-house planner or on-site coordinator.
  
• You’re considering relocating but have no contacts in the new location. It would be helpful to have someone who could assist you with your job search.