In my office I want them a bit differently I would never do a few things in my office, like using a strong smelling perfume, munching chips with disturbing sounds, whatever the reason. As a marketing head, I was part of the team that did hiring management in our company. I have often been disappointed when I realized a promising candidate didn't do their homework in many of these areas, more than a few of which I adopted as 'goes without saying' things, for me that was just common sense, plane and simple common sense.

Employees have to remember that the competition for their positions is too tough and there is usually no guarantee that they will retain a position unless both their performance and manners are impeccable. It is more than just poor etiquette to spend the day online (other than for work projects, I have seen it happening. People use office computers to connect to sites, which have nothing to do with office work); it is, considered stealing from your employer’s time. Thanks for the great friends I have, who do not mind doing this. I sincerely hope they are not reading this article, even if they are, not these lines please. (Evil grin)

Professional etiquette tips those must be applied, in any social setting - that is the business meeting tips or at other gatherings that is a great point we must make about blowing our own horn in interviews. It can be a difficult thing to do if your personality is one of modesty. The same issue arises during self-evaluations. I wish to congratulate them for their success in life, which in my opinion is, defined by doing what they love, regardless of pay or status, etiquettes or decorum must come first before any thing else. Keeping sanity of the workplace is one religious thing for me, which must come before every thing else.

This should be, accepted as a great point about bringing multiple resumes to an interview. I am not kidding, some of them do but oh no, not perfumes, no way not that strong smell any way that would be too much! People should be typically careful about not smelling too realistic (This is realistic to smell like human) but there is also a lot of bother associated with smelling like a perfume counter, that perfume/cologne one is a big pet peeve. I always felt sick while they entered my cabin smiling thinking that I would not look at their CV any more. The smell would do the trick and would give me the sucker punch that would send me flat on my back. That certainly was a minus point for them, but they never knew it. (For obvious reasons, they never found a place)

Sometimes riding the elevator up with the Old Spice man is not quite, what I envisioned when watching the commercials (this was incidentally the point that made me write this article, why girl smell should be like a bottle of perfume while going out to attend an interview). I am not sure if I would still be writing this article if I were a girl and about to attend an interview thinking that smelling like a bottle of perfume would put me in front of a boy to get me the job on offer.

Smelly food and personal calls during business hours were two big put-offs of mine. I use to share a workspace with five other marketing managers in my early stage in my last company so believe me I could not help to hear their personal business. In addition, even though we had a break room upstairs they felt the need to eat in the shared workspace, but things changed gradually as they saw me behaving differently in later days.

Some of the professionals I worked with when I joined special training camps would smell too sharp for the comfort level of others who shared the work/training places. I felt bad when the other trainees had to sit close to them. Aside from people being, turned off from the smell, it is, awfully bad for those with allergies. People really need to be more cognizant of the fact that the space shared is quite limited in an office setting. Some of my friends tell me stories about their co-workers who loudly crunch potato chips, would keep on gabbing on personal phone calls. Even during the "lunch period" employees should consider whether other people are still trying to work or they are looking at you while you are trying to disturb them with your eating sounds in the office it self. Otherwise, their behavior is just rude! That would make them unpopular soon. What is that lunchroom provided, for?

Allergies to perfume or any other scented product (hairspray, deodorant, etc.) could greatly affect workplace conditions. Some people even get asthma attacks, rashes or watery eyes as a result. People should realize that their choice of personal hygiene products could directly affect the work, especially in air-conditioned places where this takes a little more time for perfumes to disappear.

Although I am big on the idea of doing forty-eight hours a week for 30 years at the most and this applies to employees like me. I find myself making sure that I aim to be as professionally dressed and (hopefully-I am still working on this) to act more professionally when I am out in public even if I am not meeting a client or a potential client. You never know where you might meet a new customer or a potential employer out in public, even if you are not looking for one. You just may run into a potential future client or employer. Who knows about that?

Another point to consider is integrity. If you lie or bad mouth a previous employer, your credibility drops to zero and your chances of landing a job and/or keeping it diminishes, earning trust is difficult to do when you are in a situation like that. That must be always there in everybody's mind that is an important point. Point to keep in mind while attending an interview. I am not sure if you shall not be, caught, sooner than later.

My next article should be how to handle a difficult co-worker with poise and without ruining our own reputation. I know I have had plenty of experience in this department. I really have toiled hard learning and training those raw professionals’ things like that whole of my life. Look, now I seem to have fun with kids but that is also an experience, which I may share with others at a later stage. However, seriously I am planning to do some thing on such subjects more often now, after all this is what experience is, shared with the young professionals. I hope they will read this and will find a few points worthwhile