10 Tips before you send your CV to an Events Company.

This is the contents of an email we send out to the hundreds of people who email us looking for work. Enjoy.

Thank you for your interest in my company.

At the moment we do not have any placements, internships, work experience or vacancies. However we do take people on, often for individual events if your skills match what we are looking for.

By now you will have realised that this is almost an automatic reply to your request as we get so many people email asking for experience or work.

Can I suggest the following if you intend to get into events. Some of these may apply to you some may not. This is general advice for anyone applying to event companies.

1. Take to time to read an event companies website and learn about them. If you do not know what they do they will not give you the time of day so spend 10 mins looking at their site.

2. For goodness sake check your spelling, syntax and grammar. Get someone else to read through your CV, Letter or email to check it is correct in every aspect. You would be amazed at the number of badly spelled emails we get.

3. Don't send Word docs. Save your document as PDF and send it through. Word Docs are terrible at cross compatibility, your time spent laying out your CV so it looks nice is wasted if my version is different from yours. Send PDF's

4. Always include a sensible, suitable for work, picture of yourself. We are human, we want someone who will represent the values and professionalism we wish to show to our clients.

5. Get a real world, non AOL, Hotmail or Yahoo email address. No one takes a email address such as Imapricess@hotmail.com seriously.

6. Clean up your public Facebook profile. Yes we do check you out on Google, Bebo and Facebook Etc.

7. If you have no experience, no one will take you on to organise or manage events, Period. So get experience. Get out there, organise events from charity parties or fun runs to volunteering to work at events for the council etc. And make sure you photo document what you have done. A blog is ideal for this.

8. Event companies really need Event sales people first and foremost because organising an event is easy. Selling the concept to a client is the hard part. So get some sales experience. We don't sit here with loads of event to plan, we have to go out and get clients to give us money to then organise their event. So sell sell sell. And document what you have done in your blog.

9. Everyone you meet in events from caterers to event organisers should be in your contacts book. Build your network.

10. Join our Capability Events Crew pages on Facebook and keep your ear to the ground. We advertise work on FB. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17716112748

PS. Never give up, Never moan, Always smile, Never turn your phone off, Never be late, Be reliable. Good Luck.