Haveo · Networking when you need a job
Getting through a career fair with social anxiety
Pick five tables before you go and do your worst-fit one first. The first conversation is always the roughest, so spend it on a company you do not care about. Twenty seconds and one question per table is a complete interaction — nobody expects more.
Five tables, chosen in advance
Walking the whole hall means reaching the companies you actually want while tired and out of sentences.
Look at the exhibitor list the night before, pick five, and let the rest go. You are not missing anything — the rest are hiring through the same website.
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Burn the first one
Your worst-fit company first, deliberately. The first conversation is where your voice does the thing and you forget your own degree.
By the third table you sound like a person. That is the only reason the order matters.
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The queue is the easiest part of the day
Everyone in it is in your position and there is a guaranteed shared subject. "Have you done this one before?" is an entire conversation, and those people are often more useful than the recruiter.
It is also the only place at a career fair where nobody is assessing you.
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Twenty seconds is a full interaction
Who you are, what you are looking for, one specific thing about them. Then one question. Then their name and where to send the application.
Recruiters at a fair are having the same ninety-second conversation two hundred times. Short is a relief, not a failure.
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Plan the exit and the break
Decide when you are leaving before you arrive, and take a break outside after the third table. Halls like these are loud, bright and airless, and that is doing more to you than the conversations are.
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Rehearse it before you walk in.
Haveo builds your intro, lets you practice out loud with an AI coach, and keeps your notes one tap away in the room. Free on iPhone and iPad.
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