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Hi all,
I just had a very enjoyable day, but sad at the same time. Enjoyable because I laughed my ass off and sad because I lost a little bit of hope in humanity.
Last week it was decided that the department in which I work would be getting a new member to help us with the increasing number of tasks. We launched a call and we received about 100 CVs which we had to analyze. We were asked to read through them when we had some time off.
Since we work in software development, I thought that I would read the CVs of some pretty smart people. While in most cases that was true, I came across some pretty funny ones. The most common mistake was the e-mail address. Most of them had pretty standard ones (john.doe@gmail.com as an example), but some were pretty funny.
Some funny examples (please note that they are translated into English and I will try to preserve the fun part as best I can):
- sweetprincess69@hotmail.com
- swagking@gmail.com
- sexy0ne@yahoo.com (yes, that is a ZERO)
- cutelittleboss@gmail.com
- awsomekitty91@yahoo.com
It's obvious that these e-mail addresses were created when they had like 12 years old. BUT COME ON.....
How can they expect to be treated seriously when they write such stuff in a CV? How can people be so stupid?
Of course none of them were called for an interview, even though some of them would have qualified for the job
My advice? Create a normal e-mail address including just your name and use that when you apply for a job...
 
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Email adresses in CV's are the funniest thing, especially when they are going for very serious positions. Working the the HR department I've seen a lot of simply stupid things when it comes to CV's, including full body pictures, hand written cv's that are disgusting and of course the funny emails.
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On June 20 2013 20:49 thedeadhaji wrote:Woohoo I use an ID here that I made when I was 12!  But yes, completely agree with your advice. In fact I forced a friend to make a new email address when I was reviewing her CV earlier this year. Btw, would you agree that gmail is probably the most professional looking of all the free email providers out there?
Yes I value gmail over many other domains.... but I can't give you a pure logical reason.
I also value personalized domains for e-mail. I had a CV with an address john.doe@<personalwebsite>.com
I actually checked that website to see what it was all about. It was a tech blog owned by him with very good articles. He was one of the first ones to be called for an interview.
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Yeah, I'm really sad that I didn't have the foresight to get a more professional email address from gmail. All is well though, I just bought a domain name so that I could have a personalized email address with <first name>@<last name>.net.
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Hong Kong9169 Posts
yeah, i maintain a more "business" email that is clearly just my name for situations like these.
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Kyrgyz Republic1462 Posts
If you're judging someone's CV based on their e-mail address, you are doing it wrong IMO
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Haha oof, those are pretty bad.
At what point should one ditch his school email? Right now I use it for everything, but I guess once I graduate it might look weird to keep using it?
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i dont like human resource people. Valuing people based on what email provider they are using doesnt surprise me.
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Hong Kong9169 Posts
in a job market that is highly competitive and a set of qualifications for candidates who largely look the same, you have to look for easy ways to eliminate them from contention. having an unprofessional email listed is one of them.
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I'd hire a swagking@hotmail.com instantly
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United States24761 Posts
On June 21 2013 00:33 Random() wrote:
If you're judging someone's CV based on their e-mail address, you are doing it wrong IMO
I understand how you feel but usually when you are hiring someone you want them to have good judgment, and when someone applies to a job with the e-mail 'MrCool69@farts.com' it demonstrates poor judgment on their part.
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Some funny examples (please note that they are translated into English and I will try to preserve the fun part as best I can)
Stuff gets lost in translation many times. In Chinese many girls have "pretty" in their name, and if their other character translates into something perverted, or confused with a translation of the same sound, then totally not their fault. ( ie - prettyhard69 )
Of course, I'd never hire anyone using a yahoo account. Scrubs!
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Please confirm that even so, an email of poopfeast420@gmail.com would be met with a hiring, no interview needed.
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On June 21 2013 05:06 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On June 21 2013 00:33 Random() wrote:
If you're judging someone's CV based on their e-mail address, you are doing it wrong IMO I understand how you feel but usually when you are hiring someone you want them to have good judgment, and when someone applies to a job with the e-mail 'MrCool69@farts.com' it demonstrates poor judgment on their part.
Exactly!
There's almost always more qualified applicants than interviews and having an unprofessional looking CV (including e-mail) will make a difference.
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So you don't give people points for having a personalized pseudonym to distinguish themselves from other applicants that use a boring firstnamelastname@gmail.com?
I suppose that's reasonable enough.
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Seeing as hotmail is trying to convert everything to outlook.com instead of hotmail.com, does that make the domain look more professional, or does gmail still looks better?
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