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- BUSINESS, Page 47Business NotesEDUCATIONAdam Smith And Emily Post
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- Etiquette: the word evokes images of crinolines, cotillions
- and debutante balls. But at Chicago's DePaul University, good
- manners are essential weapons in the arsenal of the young job
- hunter. For four years now, undergraduate training has included a
- formal "etiquette dinner," where $25 buys graduating seniors a
- multicourse meal at a ferociously fancy hotel -- and a crash
- course in social grace from experts in the art of power
- schmoozing.
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- Advice runs from the obvious ("Avoid statements like `The
- food looks pathetic,'" urges a guidebook) to the arcane (a
- third of the predinner cocktail hour is devoted to group
- instruction in the body language of handshaking and other
- niceties). The three-hour banquet is awesomely all inclusive:
- "Soup, salad, what do you do with this fork, coffee, napkins,
- excusing yourself, dessert, any final questions and then we
- break it up," says Jane McGrath, DePaul's career-planning and
- placement director. Thus, as DePaul students enter the
- backstabbing world of business, at least they will know on which
- side of the plate they can find the knife.
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