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Follow on Google News | Could Your Email Address Keep Job Recruiters From Reading Your Online Resume?Marlies van Toorenburg, Janneke Oostrom, and Thomas Pollet, VU University, Amsterdam, designed a study to determine whether the use of an informal rather than a more formal email address by a job applicant when sending an online resume affects how hirable the person would seem to a professional recruiter. An informal email address includes slang, cute, or made-up names instead of the applicant’s real name. In the article “What a Difference Your Email Makes: Effects of Informal Email Addresses in Online Résumé Screening (http://online.liebertpub.com/ “We all have unconscious biases, and first impressions, as we know, are often difficult to change,” says Editor-in-Chief Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCB, BCN, Interactive Media Institute, San Diego, California and Virtual Reality Medical Institute, Brussels, Belgium. “This study may assist recruiters in becoming more conscious of their biases, as well as aiding job applicants in understanding the importance of their electronic identities.” About the Journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (http://www.liebertpub.com/ About the Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers (http://www.liebertpub.com) End
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