EVENT CAREER RESOURCES
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY
The event planning industry is the perfect career opportunity for creative professionals with strong attention to detail and a love of logistics. Our event planning internship program offers a unique door into this fast-growing field. Interns take on a wide variety of roles, collaborating closely with top experts and teams. Negotiation, project management, and budgeting are just a few of the important abilities that make the top event planners stand out. It is also designed to ensure interns hone collaboration and communication skills, and gain experience with problem-solving in a professional setting.
Our internship program is made possible through the direct collaboration with the Event Management and Design Institute. This employer-school partnership provides opportunities for interns to practice and develop skills such as staying organized and working well with teams, that are essential for success as an event planner.
FREE EVENT PLANNING TOOLS
Wunderlist
Access lists on your phone and tablet, or on the web. Enter to-dos and tasks and they sync in real-time, globally and seamlessly. Share lists with friends and collaborate together.
Google Alerts
For a more intimate view of what people are saying about your event, set up Google Alerts–a free service that automatically crawls the web for any search term and emails you what it finds. Beyond taking the temperature of your audience, you can use Alerts to gain visibility into your competitors’ moves.
SurveyMonkey
Ask potential attendees anything with this free survey/poll tool that offers a wide range of question types, including rating scales and multiple choice. You can use your pre-event survey to get prospective attendees; to vote on topics, speakers, workshops and more. It will help your eventual agenda be more relevant to your audience–and it’ll remind your attendees that they’re being heard.
Guidebook
We have to say it–an event app with Guidebook is your easiest path to giving your event a tech edge–and you can use it completely free. Cut out paper printing entirely (saving a ton of money), enable your team to make last-minute changes anytime, and show your commitment to cutting-edge tech with a handy event app that attendees can access on their phones and tablets, or via the mobile web. You can even embed the event guide on your website or tumblr, meaning you only have to update in one place when you make a change–it populates instantly, everywhere. Best of all, Guidebook lets you create and publish a custom mobile event app for FREE.
Tumblr
Designed to provoke interaction, Tumblr is completely free and posts are easy to design and publish. Use Tumblr to share updates, feedback, announcements and more as part of your year-round attendee engagement plan.
Podio
Podio, the collaboration tool, offers free unrestricted use of its core features for up to five team members–even including online support. You can’t beat a deal like this for clean, easy-to-use task management, file sharing and commenting. You need to be always-in-touch during the high-pressure parts of the event planning process. A collaboration tool lets you communicate and access simple overviews to track progress, all from your phone.
FREE EVENT PLANNING SOFTWARE
123FormBuilder
The free version of 123FormBuilder creates event registration forms. For one user, the platform includes five forms per month with up to 10 fields each. The free version maxes out at 100 submissions per month.
Evite
If all you need is an invitation and RSVP system, Evite’s free version fits the bill. The ad-supported option has a limit of 750 invitations and a large selection of designs.
RSVPify
While RSVPify is geared toward weddings, it’s easily adaptable for any type of event. The software’s free plan covers up to 100 responses, a custom URL, customization options, and data imports, among other features.
ConfTool
VSIS ConfTool, ConfTool’s open source system, is available for non commercial events through a free license. It’s intended for academic and non-professional event planners. For up to 150 participants, it offers a customizable registration form, file uploading and online submissions, and online review forms. The software can even be used for day-of attendee check-in.
Odoo Community Edition
Odoo’s open source event app, Odoo Community Edition, offers a slew of features for every stage of the event planning process. You can create event pages with a user-friendly editor and make agendas, sell tickets online, promote events through automated emailing and social media integration, and track site success with Google Analytics.
Open Source Event Manager
OSEM offers a broad array of capabilities in an open source format. You can build a website for your event, and add detailed attendee schedule pages packed with session information. Attendees can use OSEM to register and submit proposals, while planners can track registration, venue information, and sponsorship in the administrator dashboard.
