E-mail managers have a lot at stake. After all, the volume of global electronic messages sent via e-mail dwarfs all other forms of electronic communication, including social networking. Since the inception of electronic mail, which, according to some Internet historians, can be traced to a small mainframe app called 'MAILBOX' from the mid-1960s, human-to-human messages have been created, transmitted and stored in electronic format. But early e-mail administrators could hardly have envisioned the complexity of current e-mail infrastructure and the concomitant maze of technical, security, business and regulatory challenges.
Before you arrive at a job interview, before
you pass a phone screening, before anyone even opens your cover letter,
what does your potential employer know about you? If you answered "nothing," you're wrong. The very first thing that hiring managers see is your email address. And depending on what your email address is, they might know enough to toss your application in the trash.