30 Career Management Tips Manage E

30 Career Management Tips â€" Manage E-mail This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories This month, I’m providing a career management tip-a-day (along with other posts) to help you trigger your own career management activities. Today’s tip: Manage E-mail. There comes a time when “career management” comes off the theory-laden shelf and gets down to execution of the work at hand. After all, you can talk about Career Management, create your personal brand, have a mentor, and setup your networking, but none of it matters much if you don’t deliver the work. Most of us who work in cubes receive tasks through e-mail. We receive updates through e-mail. We communicate milestones through e-mail. We communicate completion of tasks through e-mail. We send our deliverable through e-mail. Even a few jokes have been known to be received through e-mail. E-mail is the ubiquitous task and delivery communication tool on Corporate Earth. Consequently, managing your e-mail is critical to having a successful career. What does managing your e-mail mean? Here are five critical outcomes for successful e-mail management: E-mail will most likely never be your productivity tool. But it is what it is and right now we need to successfully manager our e-mail because it helps us successfully manage our career. […] performers use e-mail to show their performance. They are short, to the point, and ask for what is needed up front. Too many of us have yet to […] Reply […] 30 Career Management Tips â€" Manage E-mail […] Reply Andrew â€" a great suggestion. I think every cubicle warrior in the world has had e-mails that demand something be done by a certain time â€" on the same day â€" regardless of your schedule or even if you have read the note. If people are working on tasks, they aren’t reading e-mail…or shouldn’t be… Reply I would also ensure all ‘urgent’ emails have been received and read by following up with a telephone call to the receiver. If fact, why send an urgent email? I hate it when individuals send me a urgent email, requesting I do something by 2pm. How do they know I have read it? Do they think I am just sitting there waiting for emails to come so I can respond? Use the telephone â€" go on â€" you might like it. Andrew Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policies The content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.