The economy might be recovering, but for meeting planners, the job landscape is forever changed. Companies may start hiring again, but cutbacks, consolidation, and accountability — the buzz words of the past three years — will remain part of the...
As signs of the country’s economic recovery grow stronger—corporate profits surging, stock market rebounding—expectations are that the job market will follow suit as in previous recoveries. But as recent job growth figures show, this recovery is...
While there has been a certification program for incentive travel professionals for some time, the merchandise side of the business never had one. Until now...
Women at the Negotiating Table With women comprising such a large percentage of the meeting planning world—and getting paid less than their male colleagues--a book to be published in October 2003 called Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender...
While the association world’s lawyers, economists, and insurance office heads saw the biggest rise in salaries last year, meetings and conventions directors also got a bit of a compensation bump, from a mean of $59,772 in 2001 to $60,500 in 2002...
When the insurance market flattened out back in the 1990s, many companies went into other lines of business, such as financial services, to diversify and move forward. That worked for a while, but now that the financial services market is getting...
Many association planners are quick to pin the blame for industry layoffs on third-party planning companies who tempt their organizations to shed salaried employees in favor of less expensive external planners. But Bruce Harris, who heads up the...
Explain specifically what you can contribute to the bottom line of the organization, whether it’s through contract negotiations, streamlining operations, creating more efficient forms and systems, or sponsorship sales. Tell them you negotiated a...
