Will using non-gmail hurt my chance of getting hired?
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I'm using Proton right now. Someone suggest I should get a Gmail instead for higher chance of success. Is that true? How risky is it for Google sanning those mails in terms of privacy?
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Are you trying to be hired by Google? Then, maybe
More seriously, I don't know if this matters. Do people really care about the address?
I've been using my own domain names for decades, what I'm using behind that name doesn't show. But I'm also old enough I don't need to worry about (un)pleasing any potential employer.
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If someone legitimately cares what email provider you use and uses that against you in the hiring process, chances are it’s not a place you’d want to work anyway.
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Shouldn't make a damn difference! Ask this person to explain their thought process
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seems like companies who know what proton is, would have no problem with it. some of their people would use it themselves.
companies who never heard of it wouldn't have any bad impression about it.
if they never heard about it but are wary/scared of everything they never heard of, might not be safe to work there. that's the kind of place that would test their workers' loyalty randomly, and not reciprocate any loyalty they receive.
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I would be surprised if this mattered, but I don't know for sure. The more serious problem would be if your sent emails get caught in their spam filter.
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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.
