Professionalism Week & Etiquette Dinner
From October 29 to November 1, 2012 the Center will sponsor the 5th Annual Professionalism Week, featuring a variety of workshops and events geared to help UW Tacoma students successfully create and then navigate their career paths. The week's events culminate in the Annual Etiquette Dinner.
All Professionalism Week events are open to UW Tacoma students from any academic discipline and year. Get your career search started off right, and get it started right now!
Free lunchtime workshops are offered Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and include a free lunch for all participants. Watch this site for details on the sessions' topics and to register.
The Etiquette Dinner will take place on Thursday of Professionalism Week. For $15, students will apply their newly honed skills in networking during a standing reception with local professionals, then sit down for 3-course dinner and a fun (yes, we promise fun!) program on business dining etiquette.
Registration for 2012 Professionalism Week events will open in early October.
Past topics have included:
"Presenting Yourself"Join this session to explore how to put your best self forward in writing and in person. Learn how social media can help or hinder your job search, what to wear when you're connecting with business people, and how to make yourself shine in both your cover letter and your resume. |
"Networking 101"Everyone knows networking is important, but how do you do it with skill and finesse? What do you do after making a contact? Joe Lawless, Executive Director of the Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility shares advice and more than twenty years of networking experience. |
"Networking 201"You hear it repeatedly: network, network, network! We've assembled a group of representatives of the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce, Young Professionals Network of Tacoma-Pierce County, and the World Trade Center-Tacoma to talk about the events their organizations run and give you ideas for your own participation. Session led by Jenn Adrien from the Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility. |
Thursday, November 1, 2012 - Etiquette Dinner6:00-8:00 p.m., Hotel MuranoWhich fork, plate, and glass are yours? What are appropriate dinner conversations? Is drinking alcohol OK during a company dinner? What do you do with a skewer from an appetizer? What if you drop your knife? Can I send a text during the meal? |
SCHEDULE:
- 6:00-6:30 - Standing reception with appetizers and sparkling cider
- 6:30-8:00 - Three-course served meal and program
COST: $15 for enrolled UW Tacoma students. Please contact CLSR regarding space availability and fees for other attendees.
PROGRAM:
Keith Gulley, Recruiting Manager for Enterprise Rent-A-Car and presenter for the evening, will share his insights on dining etiquette. He'll provide useful tips, give tricks to remember table setting placements, and talk about the best way to eat tricky foods with grace.
In addition to getting versed in dining etiquette, students will learn the importance of good manners in a business meal setting and why getting the details right makes a difference to an employer or a client.
"Whether it's an interview over lunch or a job review in the boss's office, one's attention to detail makes an immediate impression," says the Center's Executive Director Joe Lawless. "Teaching our students the finer points of dining etiquette equip them with one more tool to develop as socially responsible leaders."
The Center is currently seeking 2012 Etiquette Dinner Table Hosts to support this important event. Representatives from each of these companies were at the 2011 dinner to meet students.
- Bargreen Ellingson
- Horizon Air
- Key Bank
- McGladrey
- MultiCare
- Northwestern Mutual
- Sound Credit Union
- UBS
- Umpqua Bank
- Wells Fargo
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