STRENGTHS Your CareerBuilder

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What is Etiquette?

• How comfortable are you? Do you know
• What to expect
• Dress Code
• Appropriate behaviors
• How comfortable are others around you? Are you
• Interested in others
• Easy to talk with
• Respectful and gracious

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Etiquette Quick Guide

• Please Thank you go a long way
• Be respectful and considerate to all
• Give and receive compliments graciously
• When in doubt observe before acting
• Consider purchasing a resource book

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Attire

• Professional
• Suits 2 pieces, matched
• Conservative colors, fabric
• Always pressed
• Dress above that for which you are being
  interviewed

Goal is to be clean, classic, well fit,
appropriate, detailed Know your industry,
environment, event.
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Attire

• Men
• T-shirt under shirt
• Suspenders or belt
• No loafers
• Socks match pants
• Shoes match belt

• Women
• Limit jewelry
• Conservative make-up
• Long hair up
• Nude hose

Piercings Women only, one only Tattoos
Not to be revealed
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Networking

• Circulating at business functions on a social
  level
• Building relationships
• Marketing our skills, organization, product,
  service
• Linking to new job, promotion, new clients
• A reciprocal process of being helped and being
  helpful

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Networking 3 Part Process

• Meeting people
• Getting to know them
• Staying in touch

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Meeting People

• Nametags on right side, halfway between chest and
  shoulder
• Shaking Hands
• Firm handshake conveys confidence, interest,
  respect
• Add eye contact and a smile
• Face head-on
• Join hands web to web, fingers wrapped
• Shake long enough to say names and greeting

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Introductions

• State your name clearly with a brief statement of
  where you are in life
• 1-minute commercial

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Getting to Know People

• Starting
• Ask open-ended questions
• Sustaining
• Pursue topics of interest to the other person
• Avoid controversial topics
• Never gossip, criticize, or swear
• Be familiar with current events, especially in
  your field
• Exiting
• Find a natural pause and excuse yourself
• Set up possible follow up opportunities

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Diversity and Etiquette

• Do not avoid
• Show respect, acceptance
• Research unfamiliar cultures, norms
• Second language
• Speak clearly and slowly, avoid shouting
• Use simple language

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Staying in Touch

• Ask for and give business cards
• Make notes of date, place, time, topic(s)
• Follow up after first meeting
• Deliver what you promised
• Write a note of acknowledgement
• Send professional holiday cards
• Invitations to functions, lunch, that may be of
  interest

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Where to Network

• With Co-workers
• At work
• After Hours
• Professional Conferences
• Local, Regional, National
• Chambers of Commerce
• Service Organizations
• Rotary, Kiwanis, etc.
• Professional Organizations
• State Bar Association

• Social Clubs
• Special Interest Clubs
• Hobbies, Sports, etc.
• Educational Activities
• Community Involvement
• School Board
• Neighborhood Associations
• Philanthropic Activities
• Volunteer Work
• Fundraisers

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Where to Network

• Everywhere!

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Networking with Employers Now

• Every contact builds relationships, recognition
• Take advantage of every opportunity
• Career Fairs
• Husker Hire Link
• Information Sessions
• Student Organization Meetings

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Get To Know Us!

• UNL CAREER SERVICES
• 230 Nebraska Union
• 20-minute Walk-Ins M-F, 10 AM to 4 PM
• By Appointment M-F, 8 AM to 5 PM
• 402-472-3145
• Career Services in CBA
• CBA 223
• M T, 130 PM to 430 PM

Career Resources 225 Nebraska Union
Career Services East 301 Nebraska East Union
www.unl.edu/careers