Entries from Career Services tagged with 'business etiquette'

Do You Hold the Door? Another Etiqutte Conundrum

There is a lot of confusion about holding doors. In social situations, a gentleman opens and holds the door for a lady. But in the business world, business etiquette is gender neutral, so the one who reaches the door first - man or woman - opens and holds the door. If you are going through the door and there is someone right behind you, pause, so the door does not swing back and flatten his or her nose. If someone holds the door for you - man or woman - the proper response is, "Thank you." If you open the...