Etiquette

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Etiquette

• What you need to know about everything.

Alice Camuti, TTU Career Services
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What is Etiquette?

• The conduct or procedure required by good
  breeding or prescribed by authority to be
  observed in social or official life
• Websters definition

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Etiquette Covers

• Dress
• Eating
• Introductions
• Social Functions
• Writing (email too)
• Cell-phone (voicemail too)
• Social Networking Sites

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Dressing for Functions

• Interview Attire
• Business Casual
• Party Attire
• Business Social
• Networking Functions
• KEY BE CONSERVATIVE

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Interview Attire
Always go with a jacket and men must have a tie.
Conservative colors such as black and navy are
always safe.
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Business Casual
Note Business Casual is still about looking
professional and neat. You can lose the jacket
during the day. Jeans are still a no-go.
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Hand shakes

• Always extend your hand first
• Include your name
• Include your guests name if you introduce someone
  else
• Eye contact
• Sweaty palm??? Wipe it first is okay
• Make sure your right hand is always free

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Fun with Food

• ?Business Receptions
• ?Part of the Interview Process
• Goal is not to eat
• Goal is not to drink
• Goal is to network, get the job, impress the
  boss, look professional, etc.

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Eating Drinking

• Receptions Whats the Etiquette?
• Drinking (alcohol) ???? NO
• Working a Buffet Always Use a new plate
• NEVER double dip at the table
• One plate or drink at a time - Keep your right
  hand free
• (Dont) pile it high
• Work the room

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Food and Interviewing

• Lunch
• Order something easy to eat
• Remember goal isnt a free
• meal its getting the job offer
• Dont talk with a full mouth
• Formal Dinner
• Which fork do I use?

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Fun with Forks
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Fun with Forks BMW
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Keeping Your Commitments

• Interviews
• Appointments (with your advisor and faculty
  member)
• Groups (i.e. presentations)

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Writing Etiquette

• After an interview or invitation to a function
  write a thank-you note
• If corresponding via email, be sure to
• Use a professional email account name
• Use spell check
• Correspond just like you would in a letter

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Cell Phone Etiquette

• Professional Greeting
• Never answer in a crowded place or where you
  cant take the call (i.e. lecture hall hang-up)
• Always have on your voicemail
• Lose the cell phone, leave it in the car
• Rude to have vibrate on and look at phone
• Rude to let everyone hear your conversation

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Cell phone etiquette

• Bathroom is NOT okay
• Texting taking your eyes off the speaker
• What else?

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Social Networking Sites

• Google your name if you havent already
• 50 of employers use the internet to research
  their candidates!
• 45 use Facebook to screen candidates
• 35 didnt hire an applicant because of what they
  saw on facebook

facebook
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What do employers find on-line ?
facebook

• Provocative and inappropriate photos
• Content related to drinking or using drugs
• Findings that badmouthed previous employers,
  co-workers or clients
• Lied about their qualifications
• Shared confidential info from a previous employer

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Social Networking Sites
facebook

• YOU HAVE NO PRIVACY ON-LINE
• If an employer found your site, what would they
  see and read?
• Cultivate the on-line reputation that you would
  want an employer to see
• Is the information on your site something you
  wouldnt mind your grandmother seeing?

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Questions?