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CVs & email addresses
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shortcrust wrote: »It's not exactly a secret that many frown on silly addresses, so for me they raise questions about the judgement of a candidate. Do they know how to conduct themselves in a business environment? How will the present themselves to clients?
Yeah, but many will think "this is my main email address, I'll see any replies I get, I'll write this one on my CV". I'd guess a fair few are also 10 year old+ emails that may be a little silly now, but didn't matter at the time and that they haven't thought about it at all. That's their email, has been a long time, that's the one they wrote down.
I think employers think far more about email addresses than potential employees do.
While it may give you an idea of who they are - or used to be - in the end it's just a way to communicate with them and their qualifications, skills and experience are what should be important.
Also wonder how many people have what could be considered a silly name and although their email is their name they have been instantly rejected because of it.0 -
I have one for when I applied for jobs (where my rota now gets sent to) and one I use myself. It helps though as the main one for me gets a lot of junk whereas the other is mainly kept for more formal stuff.:T:T :beer: :beer::beer::beer: to the lil one
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Doshwaster wrote: »I always think an email address is important especially when applying for tech-savy professional jobs. That includes what comes before the @ and what comes after.
Before should be as close to your real name as possible.
After should be a ideally be a personal domain, Gmail is acceptable but Hotmail is pushing it. ISP-specific domains are OK but show a lack of originality. I'd have a good laugh an an AOL.com (or even Compuserve.com) but probably interview them out of curiosity.
I work in IT and I'm often involved in the recruitment process and I fail to see what difference the email provider makes. How does a gmail account make someone more employable than a hotmail account? Just makes you seem elitist more than anything else.
I think your actual email address says a lot about you but as for the rest, doesn't matter.0 -
I work in IT and I'm often involved in the recruitment process and I fail to see what difference the email provider makes. How does a gmail account make someone more employable than a hotmail account? Just makes you seem elitist more than anything else.
Agree with this bit. I wouldn't even summarily discount an @aol.com address in the way I might have guffawed at a bit 10 years ago.
I would say that if I was reading CVs for a senior position in IT I would be more impressed with a personalised domain that one of the web ones.
Mine is @mail.com which is easy to redirect to any ISP I choose. Has done me well for over 10 years.0
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