PERSONAL EMAILS AT WORK: BE CAREFUL!

Before hitting the send button on your work computer, read what you have written. That's the career advice coming from the CCN report of a survey of almost 300 companies with at least 1000 employees.

If you send an email with any confidential information or obscene/offensive language from your company computer, you may find yourself among the 1 in 3 employees fired - or at the very least, disciplined - for this type of behavior.

Employers mean business where their property and image are concerned. This applies to your email, blogs, instant messaging and any Internet activity you engage in at work on company computers. Note: nothing you do on your company's computer is private - everything is subject to company review at any time. Did you realize that your emails will last forever? Even long after you have forgotten that you even sent them?

As a career coach, I see many of clients use their company email accounts to communciate with me. Makes me wonder how many employers actually know that their people are looking for new jobs.