More and more interviews, telephone conversations and what used to be face to face meetings are being conducted via email. What better way to give you an edge than with great Netiquette! Below is a nice, brief article to highlight a few key points, but this blog and my book book will give you many more.
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The Email Interview
- Mihir Patkar July 15, 2014 12:30 PM - lifehacker.com
In the email interview,
remember to write like you talk. Eventually, you have to have a video chat
where you are going to talk like you normally do. My writing style and my
conversational style are quite different, and the common feedback I received in
early interviews was that I sounded like two different people between the
emails and the video chat. After your video chat, the recruiter is likely to go
back and review your email conversations — it shouldn’t sound like it’s two
different people talking.
You also need to be
keenly aware of what the other person has to read every day, as we put it in
the tips to writing
emails that get a response:
The
person sending a message and the person receiving it often have two very
different perspectives — while the former is looking to include as much
information as possible and has a vested interest in communicating their entire
idea and the thoughts that went into it, the latter is looking for brevity,
clarity, and probably gets a lot of messages just like the sender’s every day.
Because of this, with
interview emails, I issue a “10-minute review” rule. I write the full reply,
save it to Drafts, and then physically move away from my computer — usually
just walking around the house and doing odd chores. At the end of 10 minutes, I
review the email and see if there is anything I want to change. Why 10 minutes?
It’s enough to snap you out of thinking about what you wrote, but doesn’t take
so much time that your interviewer thinks you aren’t prompt in your replies.
Brevity in an email is
hard to judge, so one good way to check out whether your message is too long or
not is to save it as a draft and then preview it on
your smartphone. But only preview it, don’t write from your phone —
just don’t do it! Autocorrect errors can make you look unprofessional, and you
never know what kind of impression “Sent from my iPhone” will make on your
recruiter.
Finally, for those who are conducting an
email interview with a recruiter in a different time zone, it’s a good idea to
send your mail during that person’s office hours. In an email interview, you
can’t go to their office, so even if it’s a small gesture, this works as an
equivalent of respecting their time and busy schedule.
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In
addition to this blog, I have authored the premiere book on
Netiquette, "Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance
and Add Power to Your Email". You can view my profile, reviews of the
book and content excerpts at:
www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki
If you would like to listen to experts in all aspects of Netiquette and communication, try my radio show on BlogtalkRadio and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and Yahoo. I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ Rider University and PSG of Mercer County New Jersey.
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www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki
If you would like to listen to experts in all aspects of Netiquette and communication, try my radio show on BlogtalkRadio and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and Yahoo. I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ Rider University and PSG of Mercer County New Jersey.
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