Time Magazine reported that 55% of hiring managers reconsidered a potential hire based on what they found online according to the 2014 edition of Jobvite’s annual Social Recruiting Survey. Many companies now scan applicants’ social media presence as a part of the hiring process 91% of hiring managers review an applicant’s social media profile according to Reppler’s 2011 survey of 300 Human Resources professionals. What seems funny in one instant may suddenly appear horrendously insensitive the next.Īs you begin to apply for college, internships and your first jobs, your presentation online matters. Writing in the spur of the moment is dangerous, especially now when nothing posted online is ever really deleted, since people can share, screenshot, and recover anything. This immediacy created connections that were never possible before, but it also seems to let people express themselves more forcefully and thoughtlessly. Email and online messages offer the chance to communicate quickly from a distance. Netiquette exists to help everyone interact with respect.

How you communicate on message boards and social media matters. Netiquette is the set of manners and expectations for writing on the Internet. When the news media reported in 2017 that Harvard rescinded admission to 10 applicants after discovering inappropriate social media posts from those students, everyone realized that netiquette really does make a difference.

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