Have you done an audit on your email address lately? I don’t mean opening up your account & looking for messages. I mean taking a closer look at the actual email address that you are using.I have received a number of emails from some very interesting address names lately. That being said, if you were to ask me if these names sounded professional, I would have to say absolutely not!Sometimes, we get so acclimated to that personal address that we simply forget about how others might perceive it.Add in the close scrutiny of a prospective employer, & your resume containing that social email address COULD be destined for the round file.Dead-giveaways unwittingly revealed in your email address name can lift the curtain about the ‘personal’ you… & absolutely need to be tightened up, or even replaced in favor of more ‘sanitized’ versions.
I’m not saying you need to ‘ditch’ your personal / social email; you need to bury it or at the very least, not volunteer it when presenting an otherwise professional document for consideration for a job.Think about this… what would you think “Gnarly1941@emailaddress.com” might convey? Or “MaryJaneReefer@emailaddress.net?”Don’t laugh. I’ve seen similar email addresses like these on resumes more often than you would guess.A surprising number of people continue to send out resumes that have what I call ‘goofy’ email addresses.Even if it isn’t goofy, an email address could potentially torpedo your job search before you even get it off the ground because the one that you are using doesn’t project a professional image.Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/6219641
