CAREERS: STEPHEN SAYS
Dear Address Me, Thanks for reading and sharing! Don’t worry. You’re not being cranky, but I can’t promise you’re not getting old. Jokes aside, candidates’ email addresses are something we talk about everyday here at The Viscusi Group. You wouldn’t believe some of the email addresses people come up with. Before we jump into a few examples, let me assure you and the rest of my readers that all of the following email addresses are 99% real (I have changed names very slightly so as not to give out people’s email addresses, but the sum and substance are intact). Just to emphasize how crazy this is, please understand that a flesh and blood human person sat at their computer and from all the possible combinations of letters and numbers available to them, somehow landed on
these terrible, terrible email addresses. We receive hundreds of resumes a day, thousands a week, so the crop from which I can pick is quite large, but still. Before we get into the fun and games, let me just point out why the email address on resumes is so important. When an employer chooses to contact a candidate, chances are they will reach out by email, at least in the first instance. This means that they will need to look at the resume and copy the email into the address field. They will have to look at every letter and make sure that they didn’t make a typing error. All of this means a lot of time spent scrutinizing an email address, and as you make clear, this affects HR people’s decisions. Okay, on to the examples. You are completely right about people who use
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