Will using non-gmail hurt my chance of getting hired?
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Employers most of all want to know that you're reachable and willing to jump hoops. If you want to be seen and hired by the status quo, then yes you will need to show that you pray to the same Holy Trinity as them:
LinkedIn GitHub \ / \ / GmailYou can then feed this professional gmail account
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I’ve hired people and my wife has been in a position to evaluate applicants for a job.
What we have learned is that choosing an applicant is super subjective. Different things impress my wife and I in an applicant. (We work at different places)
Additionally, once I instructed applicants to do something specific in their application, but someone didn’t follow the instructions. Turns out the thing I said not to do when applying was actually much more helpful than I thought.
So even though a few people applied the “right” way, the girl who did it “wrong” got the job.
So when you apply, it’s mostly a matter of checking the right boxes and getting lucky.
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That probably depends more on what is before the @. Is your mailadress a gamertag or some random thing you came up with as a teen? "Superbunny69" probably has a lower chance of success than "lastn.firstname"
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Maybe I am an odd duck, but when I have been the guy looking at resumes and shit, I made a note not to read peoples email addresses. I don't care if your email is cumdumpster19 I care if you know how to configure a firewall. But I think most people look for reason to round file a resume and not reasons to say yes to an applicant.
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This is my exact feeling.
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This is exactly my take as well. The means by which you got your CV on my desk is irrelevant to me. In fact, the CV itself is like the pretty picture on a bottle of wine that persuades me to choose it over the other basically identical pinots. And shorts and a t–shirt looks as professional to me as a suit. Actually better because suits give me C suite vibes. I literally only want to have a conversation and see how much you sound like you've done this before and know how to not fuck it up.
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IT sector probably is a lot different in hiring practices than some typical management jobs
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What if the email is
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They likely have too much experience.
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Or a
hotmail.comone -
How risky is it for Google sanning those mails in terms of privacy?
Afraid to tell you but Google already scans thousands emails if you use proton or not. The company you are sending mail to likely uses gmail internally. Does not matter how private your end is if the other end is wide open.
Though I am not convinced that anyone would care if you use a non gmail account for any technical role. Hell add a custom domain to proton and you can hide the fact you are using proton and create a even more professional looking address.
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Sorry to bother you but, any recommendations for several year work gap on my resume ?
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- “Taking care of a family member” has worked for a few people
- Having cancer. It’s not just the cancer, the treatment is pretty hard on the body and mind. It’s been five years now and I don’t know if I will ever be able to get back to work.
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I work in HR. No one would ever care.
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YMMV based on the company you're applying to and how thoroughly theyre going to vet past work history, but I managed to land my current job by just putting "June 2024" as my leaving date instead of "June 2022" and just said the company recently restructured and did layoffs.
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When places look at resumes, they're looking at communication skills, education, experience, and work history. They're looking for lies and exaggerations. The poor bastards have probably been through 60 resumes a day and they're just hoping to find a keyword here or there that isn't like the other 60 resumes.
If they're unscrupulous they're also looking at your name and trying to figure out your race/gender.
As long as the email address and content you provide exudes professionalism, and the email works, They don't care at all.
As far as privacy, forget it. The business you are working with is already certainly using Microsoft or Google, they're vetting your email address and content through a spam filter. In most cases you are private email has no longer private the second it gets to any company.
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No job/recruiter/interviewer will ever care about what email provider you use.
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Unfortunately, I have seen some CEO's that will refuse employees using anything other than major services, like Google, Apple, etc.
I did see one specifically mention he will not interview anyone with a Proton email address because it wasn't considered "professional".
It's certainly ridiculous, but big business is ridiculous.
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I use my own [email protected] (well actually it's last-net.com because I couldn't secure any better domain. It's too common.)
Never had an issue.
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You Def don't want to work there then. Problem solved. Ceo is a fuck-face.
