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FREE Resources
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for
Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine
.com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for
Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine
.com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
This site is here to help you make a career change or
go back to work while keeping a healthy life balance of
priorities, family and relationships.
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hospital foundation
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"Starting Over Without
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* Starting over in
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* Entrepreneurs
* Networking
* Job Seekers
* Starting all over
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* Going through a
divorce
* Looking for career
opportunities
* Seeking FREE
career advice and
education
* Finding mentors
* Setting new life
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To chart your road
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click here for FREE
"Worksheets and
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Articles
Eight Rules of Dining Etiquette
As you make changes in your life and grow, you will want to increase your
circle of friends. A great way to do that is to take a friend, business
associate, or mentor to lunch. You may be invited to a party, Chamber of
Commerce or Rotary meeting or other business networking event that
includes a meal. Or you may be invited to dinner with some new friends.
Either way you want to make sure you project the professional and polished
person that you are. Bad table manners are inexcusable in business and
your personal life. They project a person that has not reached a
sophisticated level of accomplishment. Someone accomplished would
know which glass is his or hers. So be sure to brush up on table etiquette
during your “meanwhile.”
Proper posture at the table is very important. Sit up straight, with your arms
held near your body. You should neither lean on the back of the chair nor
bend forward to place your elbows on the table.
Rule Break: There are foods that can carefully be eaten with your fingers.
These include: artichokes, asparagus without sauce, bacon, bread, hors
d'oeuvres, sandwiches, cookies, small fruits or berries with stems, french
fries and potato chips, hamburgers and hot dogs, corn on the cob, and
pickles.
Eight Rules for Dining Etiquette:
1. Take your lead from the host. When he sits down to eat you sit down.
When she puts her napkin on her lap, you do the same. If he orders
dessert, you may as well, etc.
2. In general, your napkin goes on your lap when you sit down, on your chair
when you excuse yourself from the table, and on the table to the right of the
plate when you are finished.
3. Solids (bread and butter plate, salad plate and napkin) are on the left.
Liquids (glasses and coffee cup) are on the right.
4. Do no order alcohol or smoke at a business lunch.
5. Work from the outside in with utensils. The salad fork is on the outside
as the salad is served first.
6. Break and butter only the piece of bread you will put in your mouth. Do not
put the entire roll in your mouth.
7. Cut your food with the fork in your left hand and the knife in your right both
with the handles under your palms and directing the utensil with your pointer
fingers. The knife cuts behind the fork. Put down the knife at the top of the
plate, edges toward you, when you take a bite.
8. When you are finished eating put the knife, edges toward you, behind the
fork with its tines down at the 10:00 and 4:00 o’clock position on the plate.
Three Simple Rules to Put Good Manners to Use:
1. Take your mentor or a new friend to lunch once a month.
2. Always pay.
3. Send that friend a follow up note on how much you enjoyed the lunch and
appreciate their guidance. Include a tip or information that can help them in
an area of interest to them.
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance."
For the FREE Worksheets: “It’s Not Who You Know It’s Who knows You” and
“Goals Are the First Steps to Results” go to: www.startingovernow.
com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon went from being a stay-at-home mother with four children
to divorce, poverty and then on to become a newspaper reporter, trade
association executive director, public relations consultant, and foundation
president and CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career tips, worksheets and Blog
on her website at www.startingovernow.com. Contact Mary Lee at
info@startingovernow.com.
As you make changes in your life and grow, you will want to increase your
circle of friends. A great way to do that is to take a friend, business
associate, or mentor to lunch. You may be invited to a party, Chamber of
Commerce or Rotary meeting or other business networking event that
includes a meal. Or you may be invited to dinner with some new friends.
Either way you want to make sure you project the professional and polished
person that you are. Bad table manners are inexcusable in business and
your personal life. They project a person that has not reached a
sophisticated level of accomplishment. Someone accomplished would
know which glass is his or hers. So be sure to brush up on table etiquette
during your “meanwhile.”
Proper posture at the table is very important. Sit up straight, with your arms
held near your body. You should neither lean on the back of the chair nor
bend forward to place your elbows on the table.
Rule Break: There are foods that can carefully be eaten with your fingers.
These include: artichokes, asparagus without sauce, bacon, bread, hors
d'oeuvres, sandwiches, cookies, small fruits or berries with stems, french
fries and potato chips, hamburgers and hot dogs, corn on the cob, and
pickles.
Eight Rules for Dining Etiquette:
1. Take your lead from the host. When he sits down to eat you sit down.
When she puts her napkin on her lap, you do the same. If he orders
dessert, you may as well, etc.
2. In general, your napkin goes on your lap when you sit down, on your chair
when you excuse yourself from the table, and on the table to the right of the
plate when you are finished.
3. Solids (bread and butter plate, salad plate and napkin) are on the left.
Liquids (glasses and coffee cup) are on the right.
4. Do no order alcohol or smoke at a business lunch.
5. Work from the outside in with utensils. The salad fork is on the outside
as the salad is served first.
6. Break and butter only the piece of bread you will put in your mouth. Do not
put the entire roll in your mouth.
7. Cut your food with the fork in your left hand and the knife in your right both
with the handles under your palms and directing the utensil with your pointer
fingers. The knife cuts behind the fork. Put down the knife at the top of the
plate, edges toward you, when you take a bite.
8. When you are finished eating put the knife, edges toward you, behind the
fork with its tines down at the 10:00 and 4:00 o’clock position on the plate.
Three Simple Rules to Put Good Manners to Use:
1. Take your mentor or a new friend to lunch once a month.
2. Always pay.
3. Send that friend a follow up note on how much you enjoyed the lunch and
appreciate their guidance. Include a tip or information that can help them in
an area of interest to them.
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance."
For the FREE Worksheets: “It’s Not Who You Know It’s Who knows You” and
“Goals Are the First Steps to Results” go to: www.startingovernow.
com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon went from being a stay-at-home mother with four children
to divorce, poverty and then on to become a newspaper reporter, trade
association executive director, public relations consultant, and foundation
president and CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career tips, worksheets and Blog
on her website at www.startingovernow.com. Contact Mary Lee at
info@startingovernow.com.
Mary Lee's
Book: Mary Lee's
book on "Starting Over"
will be released by New
Horizon Press in
November. Look for it in
bookstores then!
Book: Mary Lee's
book on "Starting Over"
will be released by New
Horizon Press in
November. Look for it in
bookstores then!