Entries from Career Services tagged with 'etiquette'
That Little Fork
You are sitting down to a business dinner and you glance at the place setting and you are confused - What is that little fork? "If you have a little bitty fork resting at a diagonal in the bowl of your soup spoon on the right side of your place setting, it is not for your baby carrots or your baby squash. It means the first course will be a seafood course, such as oysters, shrimp or crab. If the little fork has two prongs instead of three, the seafood course will be escargot (snails)." Now you know what the...
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...
"To Whom It May Concern"
Addressing your cover letter without a personal name for the address always raises questions. The Culture and Manners Institute makes this suggestion: Avoid "To whom it may concern," as a salutation in a letter. (It may not concern anyone on the receiving end.) Try to discover the name and title of the person you wish to address -- a phone call is the surest way, as information on the Internet may be outdated. If you are unable to discover a name, use the title, section or division. (Examples: To the Director of Marketing: or To the Consumer Affairs Department:) Culture...
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