Wondering why your resume didn't WOW! them?

[dawnfire]

I have 3

1 for everyday
1 for job hunting
1 for freecycle (that can get 100 a day)

[draftermatt]

I learned the value of a professional e-mail 2nd hand.

My chemistry professor was a stickler with e-mail. When you e-mailed you had to put CHEM 105 in the title or he wouldn't open it. His e-mail gets flooded with spam which is why he's so particlar.

One day he had a girl in his class quite upset that he hadn't responded to her e-mail. Well she hadn't put CHEM 105 in the title for 1, but the other reason was her username: hot2trot...

Yeah like he's going to open that up.

I have two e-mails through work (one through ISP the other our website).

And I have two personal, draftermatt@famousfreee-mail.com and draftermatt@myisp.net.

Though I'm thinking I'll change the one through my ISP to my name and using it on my resume.

I haven't checked my e-mail that the college gave to me in the two years since I graduated. I wonder if it's still active... Proabably riddled with spam if it is, that's all it ever got.

[Evil Queen]

I have two that I use all the time:

<firstnameinitial><middlenameinitial><lastname>@ma ilprovidor.com
I use the above for banking, family, business, ect.

<something_completely_different>@hotmail.com
Is for the random junk, web forums that I don't think I'll be on for long, sweepstakes, Pepsi points. That sort of thing.

[rerant]

Apparently in Australia you can get your unemployment payments cut for having a stupid email address. It's considered deliberately throwing your chances of getting a job, which is against the rules.

Maybe I'm cruel, but that is seriously awesome.
If that's true I need to work on moving to Australia. You guys seem to have your shit together in a very, "Fuck you, do shit properly!" kind of way.
I also like that a New Zealand judge ruled a girl's name be changed from Talula Does The Hula.
Not Australia, but it came to mind.

I, like others, stick to the fail-safe firstname.lastname@email.com.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I have three; one is my "sign up" one, which I use for shopping and signing up for crap; it's basically nicknametheace@email.com; then there's my two others which are both music themed. One is hotmail, the other yahoo; that's cuz some sites won't let you sign up with hotmail, and yahoo is easier to send attachments thru.

[FenigDurak]

Anyway, I saw that his email address was (changing his name, though) "DoctorWilliams2000@hotmail.com" Maybe 90% doctors (MDs and academic) are affiliated with a university or some institution so their email would reflect it. I really doubted that he was a real doctor.

I'm sorry he turned SC on you. It gives other good phsycians and medical professionals a bad reputation.

I am the office staff for one of my Mother's anesthesia groups. There is not a single member on staff (MDs and CRNAs alike) who has an email that is tied through a university or hospital. They do not work directly for the hospital, but rather are contracted with them. I think this is highly common anymore as I see a slew of MDs with SoAndSoMD@aol/yahoo/hotmail/gmail/comcast.com/net. My Mom included.

[tropicsgoddess]

I have separate emails for family and friends, junk and for professional stuff. An email address like smileyeagle's is okay, even if it's not myfullname@blah.com. At least it's not heywooodjablowmi@blah.com or sexxxiiazzbaish@blah.com. I don't get how somebody could think an email like ilikebigdix@blah.com could get them a job.

[MrSmiley]

I usually use three e-mail addys with GMail.

One for Forums - nym
One for Private - nickname
One for Professional - full name

Helps keeps things organized and keeps the problem of having to put hunkahunkaburninglove@hotmail.com from showing up on the resume.

B

Yup, that's how I roll also.

The best thing about that too is that you can tell Gmail to link them all together and then you only have one "inbox" to browse. Well, how do you tell them apart then? Simple... Just apply filters so that a different label (they're like folders in Outlook or "tags") is applied to the message. And best of all, when you reply to a message, Gmail is smart enough to send it from the same email it was sent to (and if not... well there's a drop-down box to choose).

[Custard Chick]

I'm a graphic designer at a small print company, we do a lot of business cards/letterhead/etc.

I was putting together an order for a Realtor's business card and stopped short when I came to the email.

beastfeast@blah.com

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

That still mystifies me. Honestly, how hard is to to sign up for a FREE yahoo/hotmail/gmail/whatever-mail account?! Especially when it's an email you're putting on your PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS CARD!

I'll tell you - not hard at all! I've had at least 10 different free emails over the past decade!

*headwall*

[Trayol]

These posts make me wonder if my e-mail is correct for business.

It isn't anything bad; it's just a varient-of-my-first-name@isp.net

[BookstoreEscapee]

There was an article on ABCNews.com today about stupid job-hunting blunders. Like the girl who provided a link to her MySpace (or whatever) which contained a video of her dancing in her underwear and "flashing her Britney" as one poster put it.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Caree...5483048&page=1

My emails are boring, too. I mostly use verizon, which is firstnamelastinitial@, I have a gmail which is firstnamemiddleinitial (which is only because it wouldn't let me use my last initial), and my work email which is firstinitiallastname at mywork. And my gmail forwards to my verizon so I hardly even bother to check that one. When I do it's generally to delete all the junk I've already deleted from verizon. And my dad set up the verizon, and obviously I have no say in the work email, and when I set up the gmail I wanted to use the same as verizon to make things easier, but I couldn't, so I got as close as I could.

[friendofjimmyk]

well this might be a good time to ask opinion on this... but what about personal addresses that while not profesional are perfectly clean (ie, smileyeagle1021@email.com)?
.

I don't see a problem with that one. It may spark their interest too.

I have four email addresses for whatever reason.

Actually five if you count the one at school which I NEVER use. I check it once a quarter.

one is my full name for "professional" stuff
one is a my first and middle name with my clean date (1/29 = 129)
one I use for forums, however, I have fallen into a bad habit of giving out the "professional" one on accident, so I get silly stuff there regarding forums
one I re-opened after closing down for spam reasons but realized I had a few really cool things going there that I forgot to forward, so I reopened it.
and I just remembered a silly one I opened and never went back to.

[dithers66]

I had a guy apply to be a driver of a fuel truck the other day. His email started xxxrebelmotor

Yeah, don't think he's gonna get the job

[Mark Healey]

That still mystifies me. Honestly, how hard is to to sign up for a FREE yahoo/hotmail/gmail/whatever-mail account?! Especially when it's an email you're putting on your PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS CARD!

I don't get how someone could expect their business to be taken seriously with a free email service like those listed above. A domain and hosting for a year costs about as much as two boxes of business cards.

[Rapscallion]

I don't get how someone could expect their business to be taken seriously with a free email service like those listed above. A domain and hosting for a year costs about as much as two boxes of business cards.

One of our suppliers (henna) was always a touch suspect to us - the only one to use a Yahoo email address.

Yes, he defaulted on many, many orders, and then became unreachable.

Rapscallion