Email has become a standard and acceptable method of business communications.

Recruiters like myself use email to forward job searchers resumes to employers and we sometimes get job offers for candidates through email as well.

Email etiquette is often an ignored and forgotten part of sending emails and its too bad because your emails give the recipient of the message clues about your writing skills and your professionalism.

It is especially true if you are emailing a potential employer and send them an email that breaks a number of common sense email rules that could turn them off considering you for a job.

Here are some tips to keep your emails professional and ensure they get read:

1. Always include a relevant subject line that quickly states what your email is about.

2. Keep work emails professional.

3. Always open your email with an appropriate salutation such as Dear Joe or Hi Mary or something similar.

4. Remember to close the email with some sort of signature such as your first name if you know the person youre sending the email to. Consider using a signature with your full name and contact details for correspondence going outside your company.

5. Remember to consider the tone of your email. Written comments can be misinterpreted and can be open to interpretation in ways other than what you meant.

6. Try to keep emails as brief as possible. Try to get your point across quickly.

7. Dont type emails IN ALL CAPS!

8. Ensure attachments you send to other people do not contain viruses. Use an email virus scanner to prevent you sending or receiving email viruses.

9. Be careful with what emails you forward to other people. If you receive a sensitive or confidential email from someone else, dont assume you can forward it to other people.

10. Dont send emails when you are angry especially if you might regret it after clicking the Send button. Remember that emails give your recipient a hard copy of what youve written.

11. Remember to check your spelling and grammar. Just like you dont want to have typos in your resume, your emails should show evidence that you actually proofread your work before sending.

12. Dont mark your emails as urgent unless they are.

13. Learn how and when to use the CC and BCC features especially when sending an email to a large group of people.

14. Respond to emails in a timely fashion and dont make people wait for your reply.

Carl Mueller

My name is Carl Mueller and I'd like to thank you for learning a bit more about me!

I feel that I have numerous relevant experiences during my career that come in useful when helping people with their careers:

I know what it?s like to work internationally, having worked overseas (in New Zealand, from 1994-1998).

I've survived several corporate downsizings while many of my colleagues were being laid off.

I have also experienced being laid off twice myself during corporate downsizings.

I know what it?s like to be self-employed.

I've helped many people find better jobs. I started to work as a professional recruiter in 2000 first as an Information Technology (IT) recruiter and then in general recruitment across many industries including IT, manufacturing and marketing. Since this time, I have helped many people find their dream career and it?s a great feeling.

I experienced one of the slowest hiring periods in recent memory especially during the general hiring slowdown that followed the Y2K frenzy in 1999, the bursting of the dot com bubble in early 2000, and then the employment market bottoming out following September 11, 2001.

These were certainly not great times to be a job searcher in most industries nor was it a particularly good time to be a recruiter.

Following this, I began running the day to day operations of an Internet-based company in early 2003 that focused on developing online software and subscription-based websites for consumers. It was then that I fully realized the power, usefulness and potential of the Internet which really spurred me to set up my own website which you can view in my Personal URL section below this bio.

I?m also a Platinum Ezine Articles Expert as recognized by EzineArticles.com, one of the most visited websites on the Internet. This special designation is earned by having consistently high-quality articles published and viewed on their website. All of my submissions are related to helping you find your dream career and many of my articles get reproduced on other websites by their webmasters.

Good luck with your career and I hope I have been of assistance to you!