Allison Pepin

Major: Event Management
Company/Organization: Prestige | global meeting source
Company/Organization website: http://www.meetprestige.com
Destination: Mineapolis MN
Timeframe: Summer 2018
Advisor/Coordinator Email: rmcclain@iastate.edu

Responsibilities

-Working with account managers to update events in Cvent. -Awarding RFP's in Cvent. -Using Excel all the time! -Filing and organizing documents. -Updating information for Dynamics 365 using Cvent information. -Creating an electronic platform for contracts to be organized. -Calling hotels to gather information or have documents sent to us. -Completing cost saving templates. -Sitting in on presentations from different hotels and DMC’s from around the world.

Accomplishments

Becoming well versed in Excel. I came into the office on my first day with very minimal understanding and I feel much more comfortable working with the software and knowing a lot of the tricks that can be used. Also learning about many different aspects of Cvent

What advice would you give?

You don't have to know what you want to do after college! After working for a 3rd party company, I know that this specific job isn't really what I want to do forever. But I would not have known that if I didn't try it out. Think of your internship has a free trial for your career.

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