Growth is shown and shared. Conversations flow easily with strangers who have more in common with you than your neighbor. Steering committees decide the future direction of the professional societies while exchanging accolades for accomplishment. Rooms filled with people strain to hear the details of technical topics while the exposition floor crawls with excitement as vendors hawk their wares. Top executives of government agencies and corporations stroll alongside while another presenter nervously scurries to give the final preparation to a slide show.
Social events loom as signals of completion of another day's activity.
Smiles and handshakes. Business cards flash. Then, before you know it, it's over, and you go back home to your own circus, and plan the next one. Each professional society has a job search resource that can serve as a career knowledge developer or as a source of specific job contacts. Each journal lists jobs that tend to parallel the editorial content of the professional organization.