Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners
Coordinate activities of staff, convention personnel, or clients to make arrangements for group meetings, events, or conventions.
Most important skills
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
- Social Perceptiveness
- Coordination
- Service Orientation
- Time Management
Key knowledge
- Customer and Personal Service
- English Language
- Communications and Media
- Administrative
- Administration and Management
- Computers and Electronics
- Public Safety and Security
- Law and Government
What the work involves
- Consult with customers to determine objectives and requirements for events, such as meetings, conferences, and conventions.
- Monitor event activities to ensure compliance with applicable regulations and laws, satisfaction of participants, and resolution of any problems that arise.
- Confer with staff at a chosen event site to coordinate details.
- Review event bills for accuracy and approve payment.
- Plan and develop programs, agendas, budgets, and services according to customer requirements.
- Coordinate services for events, such as accommodation and transportation for participants, facilities, catering, signage, displays, special needs requirements, printing and event security.
- Arrange the availability of audio-visual equipment, transportation, displays, and other event needs.
- Inspect event facilities to ensure that they conform to customer requirements.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Enterprising, Conventional, Social.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- Bachelor's Degree (40.8% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (51.7%)
- On-the-job training
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (37.3%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 4: Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
Limits
- Distributions show what current workers or occupational experts report, not legal minimums.
- Requirements vary by employer and state; time to qualify is not estimated.
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections · dataset 2026.10.8 · method e3-qualification-1.0.0
Work environment
How the typical conditions of this occupation compare with 911 occupations in O*NET (very low = the lowest fifth).
Levels are relative. Most occupations involve a lot of contact with people, for example, so “very low” can still mean regular contact; the last column shows what workers actually reported.
| Condition | Level | Compared with other occupations | Most common answer (O*NET survey) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact with others | Very high | Higher on contact with others than 93% of occupations compared | 93% of surveyed respondents chose “Constant contact with others” |
| Dealing with the public | Very high | Higher on dealing with the public than 95% of occupations compared | 86% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Teamwork | Very high | Higher on teamwork than 93% of occupations compared | 86% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | Very high | Higher on freedom to make decisions than 82% of occupations compared | 61% of surveyed respondents chose “A lot of freedom” |
| Time pressure | Very high | Higher on time pressure than 93% of occupations compared | 74% of surveyed respondents chose “Every day” |
| Conflict situations | Very high | Higher on conflict situations than 86% of occupations compared | 41% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | High | Higher on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 67% of occupations compared | — |
| Consequence of error | Very low | Lower on consequence of error than 95% of occupations compared | — |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: very high
- Conflict situations: very high
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: high
- Consequence of error: very low
Each part is shown on its own. There is no combined stress score, and conditions vary by employer and role.
Full answer distributions
Contact with others
- No contact with others: 0%
- Occasional contact with others: 0%
- Contact with others about half the time: 2.19%
- Contact with others most of the time: 5.04%
- Constant contact with others: 92.77%
n = 25, Incumbent 07/2016
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 0%
- Fairly important: 4.44%
- Important: 6.36%
- Very important: 3.47%
- Extremely important: 85.73%
n = 25, Incumbent 07/2016
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 0%
- Fairly important: 0%
- Important: 4.38%
- Very important: 9.76%
- Extremely important: 85.86%
n = 25, Incumbent 07/2016
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 2.19%
- Limited freedom: 5.14%
- Some freedom: 31.49%
- A lot of freedom: 61.18%
n = 25, Incumbent 07/2016
Time pressure
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 6.36%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 4.44%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 14.92%
- Every day: 74.28%
n = 25, Incumbent 07/2016
Conflict situations
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 8.33%
- Once a month or more but not every week: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Once a week or more but not every day: 40.72%
- Every day: 10.37%
n = 25, Incumbent 07/2016
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 26.35%
- Once a month or more but not every week: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Once a week or more but not every day: 24.95%
- Every day: 5.73%
n = 25, Incumbent 07/2016
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Fairly serious: 37.06%
- Serious: 23.46%
- Very serious: 0.91%
- Extremely serious: 0%
n = 24, Incumbent 07/2016
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