Email, Text Messaging, and Job Interviews
Posted by Barbara Jones on September 17, 2008 – 12:29 pm -Technological innovations impact business etiquette just as they impact everything else in our lives. I recently ran across a couple of articles discussing the role of new digital technologies in business etiquette. The first article, by Steve Bruce, was posted on HR Daily Advisor.blr.com back on September 3, 2008. The article provides details of a survey of Human Resources interviewers and applicants regarding interviewing etiquette and behavior. The information about the importance of writing thank you notes is especially interesting. A very large percentage of interviewers surveyed said email thank you notes are now the norm. Evidently things really aren’t the way they used to be in some respects.
This article references another article from the Wall Street Journal that is also well worth checking out.
“Thx for the IView! I Wud ♥ to Work 4 U!! 
: Young Job Candidates Find Too-Casual Tone of Textspeak Turns Off Hiring Managers” by Sarah E. Needleman. This article from The Career Journal of the Wall Street Journal makes it clear that while email may now be acceptable, text messaging may not belong in the job interview process. Perhaps you can think of a couple of people you would like to email this information to? I can!
Tags: email etiquette, interviewing, interviewing etiquette, text message etiquette
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