These days it seems that we have to send out a truckload of résumés just to receive the odd response, and hopefully – an actual interview possibility!!! With so many emails going out to these companies it’s becoming hard to remember what we’re sending where and we begin to rush these applications off as we become more impatient with the lack of replies. Continue reading >>
Have you ever sent an email without truly thinking it through, and then have that same email come back to bite you in the a**? Most countries allow a certain freedom of speech, where people may speak freely without censorship, however this doesn’t count for anything and everything. What’s more, with the evolution of the Internet and its archiving powers, the things you “say” via email are now recorded in the online realm. Continue reading >>
“To:, CC:, BCC:” – Do these fields make sense to you? If not, there can be some serious consequences when used incorrectly! So here is a quick summary of sorts for you:
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According to The Radicati Group – 175 billion email messages will be sent on average every day. This number is predicted to rise to 260 billion daily messages by 2015, with the typical business email user to send and receive 125 emails each day. If this world was perfect then each and every email would be sent to the right person, have no spelling mistakes and contain perfect netiquette. Unfortunately the world, and us human beings, are not perfect. In fact, we are often far from perfect. In being so, a percentage of those 260 billion daily messages will be flawed and a percentage of those flawed will be seriously flawed. Continue reading >>
