Two Perspectives on Event Management Employment: Student and Employer Insights Into the Skills Required to Get the Job Done!

Be More, Know More: An Evaluation of Students' Learning in a Community Events Course

“…Harris and Jago (1999) highlighted the importance of project and time management skills, budgeting and sponsorship management, liaising with media, managing staff and volunteers, and general networking, which were considered core skills in most event degrees. These same skills are recognized by event management students as the most valuable skills gained during their degree (Junek, Lockstone, & Mair, 2009).…”

Is This for Real? Authentic Learning for the Challenging Events Environment

“…Junek, Lockstone and Mair (2009) examined the requisite skills and abilities students perceive to be associated with event management employment and employers' assessments of where students stand in relation to these skills. The findings of this study suggest that educators need to more closely align student perceptions of the importance and their subsequent performance in certain skill areas with event industry standards.…”

“…These attributes have been engaged in the design of an increasing number of vocational or semi-vocational degree curriculums. Moreover, it is agreed that these core skills required for employability need to be supplemented by a second set of content or industry specific skills (Christou, 2002;Junek et al 2009). …”

Knowledge Sharing and Power in the Event Workforce

“…A deeper understanding of the event organizational context is also needed as there is growing recognition of event management as a profession. Event organizations are advancing towards higher levels of professionalization (Stadler, Fullagar, & Reid, 2014) and event researchers are calling for more studies to contribute to an understanding of the unique organizational context and human resources management of event organizations (Junek, Lockstone, & Mair, 2009). The problem is, however, that there remains an evident and continuing research gap in the strategic and organizational aspects of event management research (Getz, 2008;Liu, 2018;Mair & Whitford, 2013) and as Lockstone-Binney (2018, p. 1049) recently notes, in event management research some "research gaps remain persistently stubborn, while popular topics of study continue to attract focus".…”