Comments on: What your e-mails say about you http://www.hrtechnews.com/what-your-e-mails-say-about-you/ HRMS, Internet Monitoring, Payroll Software, Time and Attendance, and more Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:58:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: mike R http://www.hrtechnews.com/what-your-e-mails-say-about-you/comment-page-1/#comment-10872 mike R Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:33:40 +0000 http://www.hrtechnews.com/?p=1447#comment-10872 Recipients of e-mails make all kinds of judgments about the sender based on the language used, according to British e-mail provider GMX. For example: 40% of respondents make judgements about the sender’s intelligence 20% makes guesses about the person’s age, and 16% use the language to guess the sender’s social class. Before anyone gets TOO worked up about this, we form impressions/judgments from whatever we have available. Think about whenever you get any correspondance. Do you look at the spelling and grammer and make any judgments? Do you look at the handwriting and legibility and make any judgments? Think about when you meet someone. What goes through your head about their age, intelligence, and social class? The same attention to detail you put into writing a letter or meeting someone should apply to emails as well. You only get one chance to make a first impression. Recipients of e-mails make all kinds of judgments about the sender based on the language used, according to British e-mail provider GMX. For example:

40% of respondents make judgements about the sender’s intelligence
20% makes guesses about the person’s age, and
16% use the language to guess the sender’s social class.

Before anyone gets TOO worked up about this, we form impressions/judgments from whatever we have available. Think about whenever you get any correspondance. Do you look at the spelling and grammer and make any judgments? Do you look at the handwriting and legibility and make any judgments? Think about when you meet someone. What goes through your head about their age, intelligence, and social class?

The same attention to detail you put into writing a letter or meeting someone should apply to emails as well. You only get one chance to make a first impression.

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