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View Poll Results: What do you use for personal email? | |||
Apple (iCloud, etc.) | 3 | 1.47% | |
AOL | 4 | 1.96% | |
Microsoft (Hotmail, Live, etc.) | 39 | 19.12% | |
Google (Gmail, etc.) | 131 | 64.22% | |
Yahoo | 52 | 25.49% | |
ISP-Provided (Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, etc.) | 29 | 14.22% | |
Work email (provided by your employer) | 24 | 11.76% | |
Don't use personal email | 0 | 0% | |
Other | 6 | 2.94% | |
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12-04-2012, 10:58 PM | #61 |
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I wish I had that sort of foresight, sadly when I was 19 all of my usernames were Hootie2485 no matter where I went or where I signed up...so I'm stuck with it on GMAIL. It hasn't really hindered me much, but it is kind of embarrassing on my resume.
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12-04-2012, 11:00 PM | #62 |
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Can you just not find anything close to your real name you could use? If you're actually using that on your resume...stop. I'd almost instantly pass on a resume with a name like that on it.
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12-04-2012, 11:03 PM | #63 |
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Damn man, it's not that hard to come up with something more professional. I know dozens of people who have been declined follow up interviews for something as small as a ****ed up email address.
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12-04-2012, 11:13 PM | #64 | |
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but yeah, perhaps if I ever have another go around I'll register a new email to handle all job inquiries...never really even thought about it I was pretty new to the whole resume game this time around, really stumbled into a good career so hopefully I don't **** it up |
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12-04-2012, 11:15 PM | #65 |
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I've been with gmail since beta. Which is how I have multiple 6 digit accounts, including my own...
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12-04-2012, 11:15 PM | #66 |
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If I had to post a resume today I would definately creat a new email strictly for that. It shouldn't matter, but it does like people have mentioned.
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12-04-2012, 11:19 PM | #67 |
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I'm not a Hootie & the Blowfish fan...it's basically my last name. I think people get confused, but perhaps since my name is on my resume my email makes a little more sense in case they wondered.
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12-04-2012, 11:22 PM | #68 |
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If it resembles your last name then I think you are fine and why you haven't had any issues thus far. Mine has nothing to do with my name, so I would change mine.
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12-05-2012, 07:26 AM | #69 | |
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Since I'm a network engineer, and that email address pretty obviously is for distribution of VPNs, I use it on my resume. I've also spent considerable time doing Internet forensics and abuse - I never use my real name for stuff like that. |
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12-05-2012, 07:29 AM | #70 | |
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Neither is more professional, or unprofessional, than the other. |
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12-05-2012, 07:29 AM | #71 |
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12-05-2012, 07:30 AM | #72 |
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I love it when dorks put their own personal domain e-mail address on their resume.
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12-05-2012, 07:32 AM | #73 |
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12-05-2012, 07:42 AM | #75 |
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I'm shocked by te number of students who still use emails like "babygrrrl420@yahoo.com" as their official contact email. Of course, I'm also shocked at the number of teens who don't really use/check their email with any regularity.
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