[nabs-l] Career Fairs and Conventions

[Derek Manners]

I completely understand your pain. I've been to a lot of career/activity fairs in the past year and it is always a little difficult. But here what I've learned so far. 

1. See who all is attending. Usually this is on a website or flyer or something. Then decide who you want to check out. 
2. Most  (all?) events have a coordinator. You can get in touch with them by usually calling the sponsor of the event. Tell them who you are interested in talking to and see if they can arrange for someone to show you to all the different places you want to talk to. I don't mean hold your hand throughout the entire night. I mean, they can show you to each booth either before the event or early during the event so you'll know which booths you want to come back and spend some time at once you've got the lay of the land. 

Other than getting a sighted person or just wondering around and talking to each booth, I haven't found a better way to be independent. 

Best
Derek Manners

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> On Sep 14, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Suzanne Germano via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am legally blind. How do handle large gathering like conventions? I will
> be attending the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Part of it
> is a huge career fair. How to you deal with things like that when you can't
> see the banner for what company is at the booth? These situations are what
> I find most difficult about being legally blind. There is a group from my
> school going but everyone has their own agenda and I don't know any of them
> well enough to hang out with and have them be my eyes.
> 
> There are far too many booths to approach every one of them.
> 
> Thank you
> Suzanne
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