jordan. Share Posted March 30, 2010 I use hotmail as my main email account. Unlike most people who seem to hate it, I have no problems with it whatsoever. However, I read somewhere that it looks unprofessional to use a hotmail address for your email on a resume. Is this really so? Should I set up a new, more "professional" address just for this purpose? For the record, my address is simply My-First-And-Last-Name@hotmail.com. Cheers, Jordan Link to post Share on other sites
Rudy Share Posted March 30, 2010 It's not that bad, as long as your address is good (like you said yours is). If you had some stupid email address I would have suggested opening a new one ;) Link to post Share on other sites
Sulphy Share Posted March 30, 2010 nope... i havent experienced any issues in the corporate world mate...! :) at the end of the day, you are tendering for a job...! if you had your own company, it would be a different story! :) Link to post Share on other sites
Geoffrey B. Veteran Share Posted March 30, 2010 as stated above its perfectly fine so long as you are sexykitten2010@hotmail.com Link to post Share on other sites
Rob Veteran Share Posted March 30, 2010 Yeah it's no problem at all as long as it's a sensible alias. Link to post Share on other sites
bolix Share Posted March 30, 2010 If it's My-First-And-Last-Name@hotmail.com then I don't see a problem. What kind of business are you in? Link to post Share on other sites
boogerjones Share Posted March 30, 2010 No, it's a method of contact and is perfectly legitimate. And as a manner of evaluating the job, any potential employer that downgrades your application because of your email address is the kind of employer you don't want to be working for. It's like caring if your phone number is on US Cellular versus AT&T. Link to post Share on other sites
Jebadiah Share Posted March 30, 2010 I use hotmail as my main email account. Unlike most people who seem to hate it, I have no problems with it whatsoever. However, I read somewhere that it looks unprofessional to use a hotmail address for your email on a resume. Is this really so? Should I set up a new, more "professional" address just for this purpose? For the record, my address is simply My-First-And-Last-Name@hotmail.com. Cheers, Jordan No. You can't be more professional than FirstNameLastName@whatever.com. Just get your resume out there and study well for your interviews. Good luck! Link to post Share on other sites
DrCheese Share Posted March 30, 2010 Yes, boogerjones above is correct. You don't really want to be working for someone who cares what your personal email provider is! If you were a company with a free webmail, then yes I would consider that unprofessional tho. It looks so lazy when you see vans driving around with hotmail addresses and wordart slapped on them. Link to post Share on other sites
jordan. Author Share Posted March 30, 2010 Great. It's good to know I don't have to worry about that then. I check my hotmail multiple times daily but if I had to set up a new account, I might not remember to check it as often :pinch: If it's My-First-And-Last-Name@hotmail.com then I don't see a problem. What kind of business are you in? I am in I.T. so this is why I was especially concerned. Link to post Share on other sites
Fred Derf Veteran Share Posted March 30, 2010 If your email is filthybugg3r69@hotmail.com then it's a problem. Link to post Share on other sites
+Dick Montage Subscriber² Share Posted March 30, 2010 I would argue that it's fine. Hotmail, Gmail and so on offer great interraction with modern devices such as iPhones and so on - making them very much a relied upon method of communication. You can argue that the Live or Google range of web-deployed services such as calendaring, contacts, document management are very up-to-date ways to manage onesself! Link to post Share on other sites
Singh400 Share Posted March 30, 2010 It is fine as long as it isn't ladiesman69@hotmail.com. Preferably something like firstname.lastname@hotmail.com is the best way to go IMO. Link to post Share on other sites
itzwolf Share Posted March 30, 2010 I've had hotmail on mine off any on for years. It never caused a problem. As others have pointed out it shouldn't be some inappropriate label. Your firstnamelastname@hotmail.com is perfectly fine. Link to post Share on other sites
what Share Posted March 30, 2010 I'm liking all the suggestions for bad email addresses in this thread. Link to post Share on other sites
Bmovier Share Posted March 30, 2010 I use hotmail as my main email account. Unlike most people who seem to hate it, I have no problems with it whatsoever. However, I read somewhere that it looks unprofessional to use a hotmail address for your email on a resume. Is this really so? Should I set up a new, more "professional" address just for this purpose? For the record, my address is simply My-First-And-Last-Name@hotmail.com. Cheers, Jordan No problem at all, provided that you do not put a funny alias or weird ("AnarchyFirst" or "PetertheRabbit"). You could put partly first partly last name very conveniently too. I already talked to a few H.R people in France, they do not mind to receive C.V. from "free" providers (microsoft, yahoo, others). There are no "professional" address and "personal" address. Simply avoid a few providers of "one minute address" we use only to get a code, a registration. :yes: L. Link to post Share on other sites
Ryoken Share Posted March 30, 2010 Shouldn't be an issue, that being said if you Can get a better one, I would. Link to post Share on other sites
Growled Member Share Posted March 30, 2010 I've never had an issue. Link to post Share on other sites
Shaun N. Share Posted March 30, 2010 Mine is shaun2312 - perfectly useable on a CV Link to post Share on other sites
Mockingbird Share Posted March 30, 2010 Yes, it's acceptable as long as it is not pimpdaddy@hotmail.com Link to post Share on other sites
+SOOPRcow MVC Share Posted March 30, 2010 As others have said, It's not generally a bad thing as long as the e-mail isn't some insane internet name like "sooprcow" :) That said, domain names are cheap and I would say that a custom domain name will give your resume a little something extra (even more so in the IT world). Link to post Share on other sites
+Mystic MVC Share Posted March 30, 2010 I've heard of people on both sides of this argument. Somebody I was talking to said even though they had a sensible Yahoo account, the fact that it was still a Yahoo account was not inappropriate. Do you have any kind of email provided to you by your school/college/university? Link to post Share on other sites
m-p{3} Share Posted March 30, 2010 I usually go with FirstName.LastName@gmail.com and it looks professional enough. Link to post Share on other sites
Singh400 Share Posted March 30, 2010 I usually go with FirstName.LastName@gmail.com and it looks professional enough. Yeah I would say @gmail.com & @live.com look better than @hotmail.com & @yahoo.com Link to post Share on other sites
bolix Share Posted March 30, 2010 Now that I think about it all my friends on IT got gmail addresses, maybe it's better if you get one. Link to post Share on other sites
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