Interview Questions For a Freelance Event Planner

With the reopening of places and the easing of restrictions, there’s a quick spike in interest in hosting parties. It also implies a greater need for event planners who know how to deal with changing and developing health and safety rules. Parties have changed over these last few years, weddings, social gatherings and music events all have new rules and more considerations that must be catered for during the planning stages. This takes more time and more skill. 

The process of finding and hiring a competent event planner need not be complicated. Before hiring an event planner, you should thoroughly assess prospects, and their experience in the new world.. You need to do your own planning and research first, you should have a firm grasp on just what it is you need. Interviewing is a vital stage in employing event planners since it enables you (as the client) to assess a candidate’s interpersonal skills, professionalism, and whether your event demands will be satisfied.  You also need to be reassured that the events planner can take into account all the new rules, and will accommodate the health and safety of you and your guests. 

Interview questions for a freelance event planner:

First, have them give you a rundown of their background and the specifics of their specialty; a freelancer with event management experience will know what works, how to layout the registration area to minimise lines, or what tools can speed up the process the most. You may also look at their past events to see how they did. And even if they haven’t worked on a comparable event or business, check whether their proposals for your event seem realistic and might work.

If their experience is all pre-2020, are they experienced in the new world order? Can they accommodate the health and safety elements that are now a major factor in events and parties? They need to have relevant experience and recent experience. Old experience is outdated now, since the world moves too quickly these days. 

Second, what do they include in their cost? Make sure you know the total expense of hiring an event planner before signing contracts. Ask how they charge: fixed rate, hourly, percentage, per-person. Furthermore, a professional planner can assist you in budgeting and negotiating favourable terms with service providers.  Just like a package holiday, it is nci to have a single payment to cover everything, but when that single payment has extras and add-ons it can get frustrating. 

Third, know exactly which services they provide. Because event planning involves numerous moving components, ensure that your event planner can meet all of your requirements. Remember, you need to see whether your needs can be met by them. 

If you’re hiring an event planner, be sure you interview them and raise plenty of questions. However, the most vital part is to find a partner who you get along with and who is honest and forthright about the things they are capable of, and what they are not capable of.

Some event planners can do it all, and working with them can make it easier. Other event planners need assistance, catering planners, music planners and teams of other people, and the more moving parts, the more complicated it can get.