In Office Food Etiquette

Everyone likes baked goods, treats, and food in general. Especially when someone in your office brings in something they've made at home.

At first when someone brings something for the office, do not assume that it is something that is going to be shared. Normally, who ever brings the food in will announce to everyone that they brought in food to share with the office. You wouldn't like it if someone came to your desk and started picking at your lunch, right?

When someone brings in food to share, they bring just enough in for everyone to have 1-2 servings. When someone takes more than the allotted amount it takes away from the others in the office, and someone is bound to miss out. So please remember to think of others and not pig out.

After you have had your taste of the sweet awesomeness, please, please make sure you clean up after your self. Either if it is throwing away your trash or cleaning up your crumbs. If you just happen to be the last person to take the final piece, throw away the container or ask the person who brought them in what they want you do to with the container.

The number one thing to remember is to thank the person who brought in the food. This will make the person feel like they did a good job, they are appreciated, and have them to possibly bring more stuff in at another time.

Resume Etiquette

When I was a Sr. in high school, I remember taking a class (I do not recall what it was called) that was required to graduate. This class taught us how to apply for a job, type up a cover letter, and what a resume was suppose to look like.

Your future employer wants to see a very clean cut resume. That includes clean white paper with no folds, tears or stains. Your resume should include: your name, address, email address and the best phone number to reach you at.

A short paragraph stating what it is you are looking for in a job postilion and how your previous work experience would help you do well in this field. Then as fallows your work history (starting with your last job first then going back), education, then achievements. References are nice to put on a resume, but it is not necessary.  A lot of employers do not like looking at 2-4 pages resumes. Keeping it short and sweet on one page is the best.

Also obnoxious fonts, ink color, tiny front, and designs are not professional. Arial font or Times New Roman are normally the best fonts to use for a resume.

I have seen a lot of resumes come threw in the last year. Today I took 3 resumes; only 1 out of 3 resumes would be what I would call a perfect formatted resume. The other 2 resumes were only 75% correct. They were given to us folded in half, it left huge (ugly) crease marks in the paper.

Lucky for the applicants I am not the one doing the hiring. If it was me, I would have tossed them straight into the trash bin.