| | Many
job seekers use personal e-mail addresses that are not appropriate for job searching.
If your e-mail is cute or alludes to non-relevant personal activities,
don't use it. What kind of impression do you think hunk-o-luvr@hotmail.com
or sallysweet@hippie.org will make on a potential employer? If you have
doubts about whether your e-mail is appropriate, set up another account –
and while you're at it, select something that is based on your job target: marketingpro@abc.com
consultant@professional.com
accountingexpert@email.com
Avoid
long e-mail addresses –- for example, 345_hjkis-PNN@abc.com will be difficult
for people to remember or even write down. If you must use numbers or letters,
use an intuitive series of numbers or letters:
amygordonxyz@abc.com
taxspecialist77@hotmail.com Letters
and Digits to Avoid Avoid
e-mail addresses with the letters L, I, and O and the numbers
1 and 0, because these digits and letters are easily confused.
Avoid
Underscores
Internet users who type in e-mail addresses instead of hitting the reply button
will "miss" the underscore – and their e-mail will be returned
to them with a "mailer daemon" notice.
When
conducting a confidential search, avoid using parts of your name in your e-mail
address.
If
you decide to set up a new e-mail address for job searching,
keep the following in mind:
Most
e-mail
providers will ask you to provide a "profile" when you set up your account.
But first, check out the site's Privacy Policy and don't sign up unless
you're confident that your privacy is in good hands. If
you've had your e-mail account for awhile, be sure to review your "profile"
to see what personal information you may have provided when you set it up originally.
For
example, your name and contact information may be immediately accessible, and
even worse, your profile might describe hobbies or activities that were not meant
for employers' eyes... When confidentiality is important, your best bet is to
leave the profile information blank.
|  |  Hotmail
Users |
Recent
changes at Hotmail
allow users' data to be "shared" – which
may expose personal information you thought
was private. To
keep your data from
being shared, login to your Hotmail account, click on OPTIONS, and change
the settings so that "sharing permissions" is UNchecked. |
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patient with yourself.
Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground.
There's
no greater investment.
STEPHEN
COVEY |
