What web domains look most professional in e-mail addresses?
January 18th, 2010 | by admin |
From a professional perspective (such as the e-mail addresses put on resumes), what free (Yahoo, GMail, etc.) e-mail domains look most professional to prospective employers?
A professional domain would be one with a company suffix … since you are looking for employment, it is not good to use your current work email.
1. You might get caught by your current employee
2. This sends out a poor message to perspective employees (ie, looks for new job on company time)
To this end, private email address such as @yahoo @gmail are fine and should not have any negative affect.
Only exception here is if you are a contractor looking for new clients … then you should have a website of your own with a Name Server in the hosting package … that way you can have the bob@bobsdomain.com
3 Responses to “What web domains look most professional in e-mail addresses?”
By zephyr_phy on Jan 18, 2010 | Reply
I think @msn would look BEST.
However, @yahoo would be a very good choice as well.
i wouldnt do @gmail though.
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By nhd4me on Jan 18, 2010 | Reply
A professional domain would be one with a company suffix … since you are looking for employment, it is not good to use your current work email.
1. You might get caught by your current employee
2. This sends out a poor message to perspective employees (ie, looks for new job on company time)
To this end, private email address such as @yahoo @gmail are fine and should not have any negative affect.
Only exception here is if you are a contractor looking for new clients … then you should have a website of your own with a Name Server in the hosting package … that way you can have the bob@bobsdomain.com
References :
By dracpmurt on Jan 18, 2010 | Reply
Buy yourself a proper domain somewhere such as godaddy. You can set up a free e-mail forwarder from your own domain. Say your name is Bob Dobbs, for example, you could buy dobbstech.com (were it available), and be bob@dobbstech.com.
That, I think, is the most "professional" way to go about things. It at least looks that way from the outside.
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