Tag: meeting planning jobs

Meeting planning placed 8th in U.S. News’ “Best Careers of 2010” report based on the Labor Department’s new job growth projections for 2008-2018. According to the report, the number of jobs planners hold is forecast to jump 16 percent, attributed to the growing importance of meetings to increasingly global companies. So add language skills to all the other requirements of this career choice, which already seems to require more multi-tasking than most others.

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Economic news is not very bright these days, but according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s 2008-2009 Occupational Outlook Handbook, the long-term employment outlook for meeting and convention planners looks very positive. Jobs in this category are expected to grow 20 percent over the 2006-16 decade, faster than most other occupations. Meetings and conventions are expected to become even more important, in response to the globalization of organizations and businesses. Alternative forms of communication have [...] Read more