Wondering why your resume didn't WOW! them?

[friendofjimmyk]

We're talking in another thread here about outgoing voicemail messages and it reminded me about an interesting tid bit a fellow student told me in our class.

I'm a Human Services major. Part of this degree plan is doing internships. I have to complete 3. Once a week, all of us who are doing internships have to meet for an hour to discuss our experiences.

One of the girls is interning at the Somali-Bontu (sp?) center. These people help refugees find work, get social service, and basically figure out how to adjust to a new life in a new place. Among the people who "work" there are girls from a place called "Employment first" - a job placement agency that requires its clients to perform service work in the community.

My fellow classmate helps these girls more than she helps the refugees. Mostly, on their resumes.

She said the biggest mistake she finds with their resumes is that they have the most unprofessional emails listed. She tries to tell them that listing an email address that is "sexydeliciousXXX@whatever.com" will probably not get you anywhere. Some of them understand, however, there are ones that I suppose just don't want to be employed because they won't change them.

[RetailWorkhorse]

I don't include my email address, mostly because I only use it for Forums and and internet shopping anyways. If they ask I'll tell them I have e-mail, but I still generally don't give it out. I have a "junk" e-mail for the people that won't leave me alone about it.

[Skarredmind]

What the "outside work, I am a complete whore" line doesn't work when you are looking for professional jobs? Crazy!

[SongsOfDragons]

Thing is - I don't know if my uni address will expire any time soon, and my hotmail isn't *that* bad, surely...certainly nothing rude or innuendo-filled...

[depechemodefan]

There was this "doctor" who became a full-blown SC because...well, long story. But he sent an email asking how in the library he can find books, and his reply was a librarian will show him how to use the catalog. He comes up to me (and tells me he is a doctor...and wanted books on vision problems , like a public library would have peer reviewed books instead of a medical library) and shows me the email and I take him to the catalog and start, "to use the catalog you click here..." and he yells, "no, you will do it for me!". Whole bunch of bs, and the manager makes it my fault, like I should have gotten someone else to help him. Like how was I suppose to know he was going psycho!

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.

[42_42_42]

Fortunately, my alma mater has a life-time forwarding address, it's basically:

yourname@alumni.university.edu

You can change it to forward to any actual email account you have.

That's what I use on my resume and on job applications. It's nice and professional (although my actual email addresses are nice and boring myname@email.com).

[smileyeagle1021]

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)?

oh and I have heard soo many interesting email addresses... most of them though aren't worth repeating.

[Bandit]

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

[morgana]

I have two. One for personal stuff, SCA stuff, friends . . . ctsmorgana@yadda. One for professional stuff, resumes, etc., . . . firstname.lastname@

Some people have no sense, but we knew that already.

[powerboy]

I have 4 emails.

One for personal
One for professional
One for Forums/ news letters/ Amazon
And the last one is my ghosthunting one. Which needs to be changed

[edible_hat]

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.

Mine: firstname.lastname@emailprovider

actually I use that for everything.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

I have a professional email address (basically just myfullname@email.com) I use for business and formal purposes (work related, letters to the editor, email inquiries, that kind of stuff) and another sillier email for use with my friends. I'm not too fond of it but I've had since I was 15 and I suppose I thought it was cool back then.

[mattm04]

I have three emails. My "personal" one is in firstinitiallastname, I have my College account, which I use for all college related stuff and another one from my church as I am one of the vol. IT/webmasters, which is used for, you guessed it Church IT/web stuff.

[portia911]

worked on a recuitment campaign

for the british government. You would'nt believe some of the inapproriate emails and voice mails we had. During slower moments our team would take turns calling these idiots on speaker phone and ask them to confirm their email addresses. Suprising how many still had not hestitation confirming "Sure it's ketaminefiend@hotmail.com" or the like

[Samaliel]

I have three e-mails also. One professional (initiallastname@isp.fr), one for entertainment and various things not too serious (e-shopping, newsletter, LJ, forums), and a last for personal matters which I hardly give away, which sounds serious as well. I'm considering getting rid of the first one, because it's really crap (poor storage capacity, junk mail and bin count towards the storage total, crappy spam filter...) but that'd mean setting up another adress e-mail and going through the hassle of warning every people concerned of the address change.