If your job interview includes lunch or dinner with your potential employer, what are the biggest gaffs to avoid? This was the focus of "Dine in Style," attended by 100 UI students on the eve of the February UI/WSU Career Expo.

UI School of Family and Consumer Sciences helped sponsor the event. Guest speaker and FCS alum Debra Lybyer '87 and '91, Lewis-Clark State College's career development services director, shared advice, including pitfalls to avoid. "Some sound so obvious. Yet you'd be surprised how often these mistakes are made," says Lybyer.

1. Order in the medium price range
2. Avoid entrees that require twirling, licking, or a bib
3. Say please and thank you to the waiter
4. Begin and end eating when the host does
5. No talking with mouth full or chewing with mouth open
6. Wipe your mouth (dab gently) before sipping a drink
7. Always pass to the right
8. Focus conversation on business-related and casual topics (not relationships, politics, religion)
9. For more tips, google "professional etiquette, dining