What Email You Use Is Important When Seeking New Employment

Your email provider and email address are extremely important when you are seeking new employment.  I've touched on this subject in previous posts, but felt it was important to shed more light on this topic.  

Email Address Tips:

• Keeping your email address simple and incorporating your name is ideal.  (ex: JohnDoeResume@gmail)
• Shared email addresses should not be used for resume responses - if you share an email with your spouse or family, create a private, personal email address that is just for responses to your resume.
• Never use your current business/employer's email address for your job search!
• Making references to your religious, political or other beliefs or your personal status in your email address is not advisable, keep those for personal emails. (exs: DieHardLiberal@yahoo, SingleAndLooking@aol , LovinMaryJane@ymail or ChickenFarmer@gmail etc)
• Sexual references of any type should NEVER be used in an email address you are using on your resume. 
• Keeping it simple by just using your name and something that specifies the email is solely for your job search makes it easier for an employer to remember it, shows you're focused on your career search and doesn't open one up for immediate discrimination.

The Importance of Spam:

• Make sure when setting up the email account that you turn off the spam protection options.  Since you are going to utilize this email only for your job search, you can sift through a little spam.  When turned on most spam blockers will automatically block emails from businesses that are interested in your resume and send them to junk mail or block them all together so you never see them.

Additional Email Tips:

• Make sure when you create a new email that you update your current resume and also the resumes you have posted on various job boards.  I've run into situations often where I am responding to a resume via a job board only to have the email bounce back as no longer active, even if the resume was posted just a few weeks ago.
• If you are already working with a potential employer or recruiter(s) when you update your email address, make sure you send out a quick email notifying them of the change. (always BCC if you're sending to multiple recipients)
• If your email server has a limit on how many emails it will store, make sure you're clearing out your inbox on a daily basis.

By applying these email methods you should be able to greatly simplify your employment search process.


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