At the fair, I found it helpful to note the locations of everyone I was interested in. Then, I focused on the places I was most interested in, but also whoever wasn’t busy at the time. I’ve found it makes a better impression to walk right up to someone and introduce yourself than to hover around until they address you.

These are excellent tips. You simply cannot attend all the booths, so targeting the places you really want to work makes all the difference. Recruiters sense your excitement to work for them and that makes you stand out from a crowd of a zillion faces. Note that excitement is different from eagerness. Eagerness can come off as desperation. You want to exude that working for them seems like *fun*.

You are so right about being gracious to the hotel staff. I’m guilty of being testy to people when I’ve had a bad day, but the hotel staff is almost always kind no matter what. (Helps that the last place I went to an open call was at a Ritz Carlton and I got the job.)

This is going to sound like weird advice, but don’t stint on resume paper either. It’s really weird but sometimes I got to fairs where candidates have low-quality paper, and even if you have nice paper, the recruiting staff makes a crummy copy of your resume. I’d rather give the interviewer a fresh copy that is beautiful than look like everyone else.

Sorry to hear about your speeding ticket.

Hope some of those contacts pan out for you!!