I remember having a sales job (pre-computer days) where I was expected to wear a suit every day.\u00a0 One day I showed up with a navy sportcoat, tie and khakis and I actually was a bit nervous about what my boss might say.\u00a0 I didn’t get in trouble, but I didn’t wear a sportcoat again.<\/p>\n
Suffice to say, the average office has become extremely casual over the past 20 years.\u00a0 We get the opportunity to see many different office environments and I am beginning to think that they are evolving into even more casualness.\u00a0 Jeans are becoming more common in the middle of the week, not just on Fridays.<\/p>\n
I think this is a bit of a trap for a candidate, younger candidates especially.\u00a0 Take this article from the Wall Street Journal<\/a> that details young candidates using text message lingo in their job search correspondence:<\/p>\n After interviewing a college student in June, Tory Johnson thought she had found the qualified and enthusiastic intern she craved for her small recruiting firm. Then she received the candidate’s thank-you note, laced with words like “hiya” and “thanx,” along with three exclamation points and a smiley-face emoticon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I hate emoticons.\u00a0 The thought of including them in a thank-you note is baffling to me.\u00a0 Here is where the casualness is creeping in:<\/p>\n Job hunters may be more inclined to use their cellphones and text lingo when thanking interviewers because the medium is gaining acceptance in a growing number of workplaces. “I definitely text my managers if I am running late,” says Jennifer Nedeau, 23, a project manager at New Media Strategies Inc., a marketing firm in Arlington, Va. “I know I’m not bothering them with a phone call, but they’re still getting the message.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I have no doubt text messaging will become more common over the next couple years.\u00a0 However, it has its place and candidate correspondence is not one of them.\u00a0 I would have serious reservations if I received an email or worse a letter, that incorporated text message shorthand.\u00a0 In sales this would be high risk, even in technology sales.<\/p>\n Far better for the candidate to display their proper writing skills in the formal setting of an interview process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I remember having a sales job (pre-computer days) where I was expected to wear a suit every day.\u00a0 One day I showed up with a navy sportcoat, tie and khakis and I actually was a bit nervous about what my boss might say.\u00a0 I didn’t get in trouble, but I didn’t wear a sportcoat again. Suffice to say, the average office has become extremely casual over the past 20 years.\u00a0 We get the opportunity to see many different office environments and I am beginning to think that they are evolving into even more casualness.\u00a0 Jeans are becoming more common in the middle of the week, not just on Fridays. I… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,2,5],"tags":[903,1760,904],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-r7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}