Assignment 1: Worksheet 1

        1) What is your chosen sector?

Events Planning

 2) What is your chosen specialism?

Specialist Events Management

3)  What is full-time work?

 Full time work is working a contract of around 30+ hours a week. You have a set wage and are paid monthly. In full time work you get; holiday and sickness pay, the job will have a set routine with set hours. This is ideal for people with family and/or children. Redundancy pay applies if you lose your job for no reason of your fault.

4) What is part-time work?

Part time work is a short contract, perhaps of 6 months. At the end of the contract you may get a new contract or just lose your job completely. This type of contract would be good for graduates or students who are looking for experience in the job field. People who are not committed to any major household bills or children would be ideal. This could also be a permanent part time job such as a saturday job in a shop.

5) What is freelance

Freelance work is where you are working for yourself and do not have fixed work, hours, money etc. Often, freelancers get a lot of money but that depends on how many jobs they get in a month. It has its disadvantages of not being able to plan ahead as you are unaware of how much money you will be making. One month could bring in lots of jobs meaning quite a bit of money but the next month you could possibly only get one or two jobs that don't pay very well.

6) What qualities do you think you need to be a good freelance?

 To be a good freelance I think you have to have good time management and money management skills as budgeting is extremely important.

 7) If you could choose a type of contract to have, which one would you pick and why?

 I would pick to work full time, as it would be reliable and a set amount of income per month.

8) Search for details online of someone who works freelance in your chosen sector/specialism. Summarise their duties/responsibilities and comment critically on their job. Does reading about them make you more likely, or less likely, to go freelance?

 Sarah Ellis is a freelance events manager. She caters for parties, weddings, civil ceremonies, corporate events. I think reading about what she does makes me less likely to go into the freelance industry purely because you never know when you're going to get work or income.