Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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Business and dining etiquette tips are on the menu at the University Career Center’s Spring 2009 Etiquette Dinner. During the dinner, students will receive tips on proper behavior for professional settings.
Students planning to attend the dinner must register by March 5, UCC assistant director Erin Wolfram said. The registration fee is $15 and can be paid either at the UCC’s Web site, www.KUCareerHawk.com, or at the UCC office, 110 Burge Union.
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Etiquette Dinner
When: 6:30 to 9 p.m. on March 11
Where: Malott and Kansas rooms, Kansas Union.
“The information taught throughout the evening is often information that students do not learn from classes, high school and society. Therefore, this event provides an inexpensive way for students to learn valuable business and dining etiquette tips,” Wolfram said.
Wolfram said the skills students would learn could help them become more marketable candidates for future jobs.
Immediately before the dinner, there will be a networking session where students can meet employers in attendance, Wolfram said.
Students and employers will then be seated in assigned seats at the dinner, which will feature a four-course meal consisting of soup, salad, a main dish with sides, and dessert. More than 100 participants attend the dinner each semester, Wolfram said, and business attire was required.
Jonathan Eisen said he would try to attend the dinner. Eisen, St. Louis junior, said it was very important to understand what was and wasn’t appropriate etiquette-wise as students transitioned into their post-college lives.
“Events like this allow students to work on skills that they might need on an everyday basis, in a possible dinner interview, or even on a date,” Eisen said. “KU students are first-class individuals, but we need to work on our etiquette to prove that we are first-class.”
Mary Banwart, associate professor of communication studies, said employers paid close attention to etiquette and said good etiquette could be an advantage.
“In tight economic times it is the small details that make a big difference,” Banwart said. “So I encourage students to take great advantage of this opportunity to give themselves a step up on the competition and to increase their own confidence at important gatherings where their mind needs to be focused on communicating their skills and qualifications, not on which fork to use or how to pass the broccoli.”
— — Edited by Casey Miles
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