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What they often need is soft business skills, like how to answer a phone properly, how to shake someone’s hand when greeting them, how to put their phone down and look someone in the eye when they are talking to them. It’s not that they don’t know how to communicate, it’s that they do it differently. But particularly in the arts and entertainment industry, we’re still a ‘handshake and a look in the eye’ kind of industry. Your reputation is all you have.
Professional presentation – This includes dress codes, communication styles and representing the team/company in the best possible manner. Greetings matter, including handshakes, welcoming gestures and eye contact. Punctuation matters. Grammar matters. Emails should not begin, ‘Hey, just got your message.’ That is one of my hard rules. I sit people down when they first start working with me and say, there will never be an e-mail that comes from this office that starts with the word ‘Hey.
“I was handed this 84-year-old standard of care that is handed out in all of our cancer centres across Canada,” Ms. Bartholomew says. “So I was like, ‘Okay, somebody’s got to do something about this.’” Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Johnson worked on a sugar farm every spring, collecting sap trickling down from more than 500 trees. During the off-season, she picked up shifts at a restaurant and catering business.
“I’m a migrant from Mexico and I did not have experience in Canada working in an office, so I took this job because it was somewhat related to my field,” she says. She hoped to get a foot in the door and build a career.
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