Most appropriate email address for job application
Most appropriate email address for job application
(OP)
I have the following options to send an email to an HR personell:
- Hotmail, Yahoo, University, Current Employer
I do not want the email to be send directly to trash especially given that the address for the Yahoo account in particular has no correlation with my names. An email from a Hotmail may be identified as junk leaving me with my University account (no formatting available) and my employer's account.
Would anyone submit an application using their current employer's email address?
TIA.
- Hotmail, Yahoo, University, Current Employer
I do not want the email to be send directly to trash especially given that the address for the Yahoo account in particular has no correlation with my names. An email from a Hotmail may be identified as junk leaving me with my University account (no formatting available) and my employer's account.
Would anyone submit an application using their current employer's email address?
TIA.





RE: Most appropriate email address for job application
RE: Most appropriate email address for job application
Good on ya!
Old Dave
RE: Most appropriate email address for job application
I would stick with your university address or as plasgears suggested, open a new free account with either Hotmail, Yahoo or Google. You should also have an email account though your ISP.
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I'd get a gmail account to use. Their webmail setup is pretty slick, it should cover all your needs. And pick a professional looking handle, like first initial + last name, or something like that.
The IEEE service might look good, but if I'm not mistaken it's just a forwarding service, not an actual mail account.
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Jeff Mowry
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RE: Most appropriate email address for job application
I will notice the email name, however. I won't intentionally reject a resume because of the email name, but it may influence my judgement which is often based on a 15-30 second review of the incoming email and resume.
Hence - don't use off-the-wall email names; keep it simple; and good luck.
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email Id keep professional and Id have an email address that is as professional as possible - look for any provider that can give you custom addresses like say
Gavin@spence.co.uk something that you can personalise to suit yourself. Id keep well away from humerous ones and or anything that would raise suspicion. Dont use work ones though as that might even flag up that you are willing to do personal emails from work to your new employer and they might not like that very much. Its a fickle game out there and someone just keeps changing the rules for no reason.
Rugged
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However, when they use a keylogger spyware program, that is invasion of privacy. Maybe they have too much time on their hands (such as the office manager I mentioned in my previous post).
S0...even if you use yahoo.mail at work for your personal e-mail needs, your employer can still "see" what you have viewed or typed on your monitor.
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A good technical reason for using GMail is that the spam filter has never been wrong yet and this would avoid the problems mentioned in the OP.
Ben
Senior Design Analyst
Dunlop Tyres
Motorsport Division
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If you use yahoo or hotmail, don't put any numbers in the address; for some reason that triggers some spam filters.
I know you already decided to go with the ieee forwarder, which is cool, but doesn't your ISP come with some kind of email address? Or don't you have internet access at home? You really should. Juno gives you 10 hours a month free, enough to make the difference between some and none. I think NetZero might be similar. I agree with the others that you should be doing all your jobhunting on your home computer, not your work computer.
Another possibility is to check with your alma mater. A lot of colleges now offer forwarders to their alumni. You'd still need another email account (yahoo or whatever) for the mail to forward to, but you'd have a nice dignified email address.
Hg
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In response to your questions, I do have internet access at home and also have an email account with my ISP. Problem is, this account does not give any editing capabilities such as those provided with Yahoo or Hotmail accounts. Any kind of formatting is rendered to plain HTML which is fine for some cover letters. However, I cannot use bullet, bold letters or tabs etc. Same applies to my university account.
I came up with a solution that should work. I registered for a Gmail account and selected a professional email address. The IEEE alias will not ‘mask’ my funky Yahoo email address so what I do is route any Gmail emails to Yahoo for former does not have document editing capabilities either. Kind of cool.
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HVAC68
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Just a personal prejudice of mine, but I loathe unnecessary HTML. If I get something from someone unknown and it's got a lot of HTML in it, I assume it's spam and delete it.
Hg
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HVAC68
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Make the covering letter as short as possible. Not many people read the covering letter in detail. I may be wrong, but, generally, this is my experience.
HVAC68
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If you need that much structure (headings, bullets, etc.) to convey what you're trying to get across, then you're starting to get into resume territory and you've gone beyond what a cover letter should be, um, covering.
Hg
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I agree it should be short (one page), but see no reason not to use bullet points.
On my previous job I was complimented on my covering letter - they'd asked for 6 particular skills and areas of expertise, in six one line sentences I answered them and got the interview.
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Greg Locock
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I probably gave the false impression that my cover letters are a two or three page regurgitation of the resume. On the contrary, some of my cover letters do not fill up a page.
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HVAC68