Be Professional when Job Hunting

Marvin Walberg has a good article with some basic common-sense tips about how to conduct yourself on your job search. You can read the article here.

One of his tips is as follows:

Get a permanent and appropriate e-mail address. If you want, use one for friends and fun and another for business, using your name or initials — no cutesy names like hotmamma1795@hotmail.com, or — well, you know what we mean.

Now you would think that most people would know that they should use an appropriate email for their business related conversations....but that is not always the case. Years ago, I had a candidate that had an email address that was, shall we say, somewhat pornographic in nature. It was listed at the top of her resume. When I mentioned to her that she may want to consider using another email address for her job search, she balked at the suggestion.

Needless to say, I did not spend any more time working with her.