Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Event Management

These are the 24 terms our scorer checks a Event Management resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • event management
  • event planning
  • venue
  • vendor coordination
  • sponsorship
  • brand activation
  • btl
  • exhibition
  • conference
  • production
  • stage
  • guest management
  • registration
  • footfall
  • on ground execution
  • client servicing
  • creative brief
  • timeline
  • post event report
  • corporate event
  • artist management
  • budget
  • permissions
  • logistics

The eight questions for Event Management

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many events do you deliver in a year, and of what size?
  2. 2.What was the largest event you ran, by footfall, budget or scale?
  3. 3.What event budget or sponsorship value do you handle in a year?
  4. 4.How many vendors, venues or production partners do you coordinate on a typical event?
  5. 5.Which types of events do you run by name?
  6. 6.How many clients, brands or accounts do you service, and how many came back?
  7. 7.What result did your events drive, such as leads, footfall, registrations or media coverage?
  8. 8.How many crew, volunteers or team members do you direct on event day?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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