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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.

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

Open your own yahoo acct. Your employer has access to your file, don't you know.

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

I agree with Plasgears.  Also, don't surf monster.com from work.  Typical nowadays that it's flagged for your manager.

Good on ya!

Old Dave

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

Employer granted access to the internet (browser & email) are provided for work-related duties, not for personal growth and job hunting.  Many employers review this access, but the flip side, many do not.

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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RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

Yahoo has a mail option, with your own domain name, at a very low price. Seems like money well-spent  to me.

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

I've been using Yahoo to support two domains.  It works well and doesn't cost much.

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

Also, for receiving emails, the IEEE offers a free remailer service.  Thus, if you move around a lot, cancel accounts, change jobs, you can still keep an email like "knji@ieee.org" throughout your career.

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

(OP)
Thanks all.  DonPE, the IEEE option is really cool. I'll definitely start making good use.

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

Employers don't always have the authority to scan your mail and web browsing history.  Mine certainly doesn't (though that's the exception these days).  You probably have some kind of employee handbook that will tell you what your deal is.

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.

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

As born2drill suggested, go with gmail while you can still get the name you want.  You can even pipe it into your POP email client (like Thunderbird) instead of using webmail if you like.  Definitely the best email service with a professional edge to the upcoming technology.


Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

This may be getting off the thread a bit, but beware, some employers certainly don't tell their employees the truth (Doris, tell me something I don't already know). My previous employer installed a keylogger-spyware program on my computer. Actually, it was the office manager, and the Owner/President of the company didn't even know about it. I caught it while running a well-known, free spyware program.

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

I don't pay attention to the internet service provider of incomin emails;   I figure people will use what they have access to, and not all schools allow graduates to keep their student email address forever.  

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.

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

Hey Im sorry but if I was running a company or else was a boss Id be pretty darn keen on what my employees were doing, so Id be watching email and such. Anyone who applies for a job through their work computer is either stupid or else playing with their employer.

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

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

It is pretty much standard for employers to snoop on their employee's regular company e-mail correspondence, and I can accept that.
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.

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

I used my GMail in a recent application and it was fine. Maybe it's just technical snobbery, but I don't think Hotmail looks very professional, whereas GMail is a bit better in that regard.

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

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

How does the GM spam filter help for whether you're rejected by someone else's spam filter who isn't using GM?

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

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

(OP)
Hg,

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.

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

You don't want to try sending your CV as a word attachment ?  That should hopefully, solve the formatting issues.  

HVAC68

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

(OP)
HVAC68,  I personally like to type out the cover letter in the body of the email and attach the resume.  

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

If all you're doing is the cover letter, you don't need formatting.  Asterisks work fine for bullets, upper case for bold.

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

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

That's fine and what I meant too.  The cover letter can be a very brief 2 or 3 line message.  The resume can be in a word attachment which can be formatted the way you want.

HVAC68

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

Just don't make your cover letter a regurgitation of your resume by posting your qualifications, education and work experience... that's what the resume is for.

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RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

(OP)
MadMango, HVAC68 and HgTX, I am neither talking about a regurgitation of my resume nor some lengthy and fancy HTML work. I guess if a cover letter is a 2-3 liner, then no formatting is neccessary.  On the otherhand, if one attempts to make a formal introduction, stating purpose and how exactly one can fit within a position, formatting sometimes makes things easier to read.

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

My $0.02 worth of suggestion.

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

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

knji--no, you're still talking about paragraphs of text.  You don't need any formatting for that.  Even word-processed business letters on a printed page shouldn't have bold, underlining, bullets, all that.  It looks silly and unprofessional.  

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

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

Wow, the last two posts are in direct contravention of my experience. A covering letter is your primary selling document and should be used to demonstrate the fit between your experience and abilities, and the job requirements.

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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RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

(OP)
GregLocock, despite the varying opinions, I still think that a cover letter is the main selling document and more thought needs to go into it.  While the resume outlines  technical competencies, the cover letter demonstrates a certain level of written communication skills that will come in handy for documentation and presentation purposes.

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.  
 
 

RE: Most appropriate email address for job application

I agree that the covering letter is the window to one's resume - that's why it should be short, crisp and to the point.

HVAC68

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