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CVs & email addresses

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  • Flyonthewall
    Flyonthewall Posts: 4,431 Forumite
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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.
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,474 Forumite
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    pmd123 wrote: »
    just to add, I didn't realise the made up email addresses would hyperlink when posted, so apologies if sexykate and john.smith get a lot of spam, it wasn't intentional :rotfl:
    Can you not manually unlink it?
    Signature removed for peace of mind
  • dawyldthing
    dawyldthing Posts: 3,438 Forumite
    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 :) :beer::beer::beer:
  • Gavin83
    Gavin83 Posts: 8,757 Forumite
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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.
  • robatwork
    robatwork Posts: 7,300 Forumite
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    Gavin83 wrote: »
    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.
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