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?
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.
This is my exact feeling.
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”
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.
IT sector probably is a lot different in hiring practices than some typical management jobs
The roles I’ve hired for require formal presentation of work/studies with a certain level of attention to detail, and more internal politics than I care to admit.
So while its never the sole deciding factor in a resume I do put weight on spelling, formatting, and general professionalism. If your email is
firekitten22@aol.com, orjon@sirfapsalot.netI’m not immediately binning it, but you are starting from a disadvantage.stephanie@harmlessdomain.comis always gonna be just fine though.I’m changing my name to Stephanie right now, and buying harmlessdomain.com if it’s available! Then I’ll always be fine!
harmlessdomain.comis available - I expect to see it registered by tomorrow or I’m never trusting a stranger on the internet ever again!You’re hired!
And “firstname.purpose”?
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.
You Def don’t want to work there then. Problem solved. Ceo is a fuck-face.
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.
No job/recruiter/interviewer will ever care about what email provider you use.
It depends.
I judge people harshly for still using yahoo email. You disgusting fucks know who you are. Just look at yourselves. Ugh. /s
i still have the yahoo account i created back in the 90’s and i can’t rid of it because of the nostalgia it inspires, so i mostly use it for spam whenever some random site wants me to sign up.
What do you think they think when they see an AOL email
No, I actually purchased a domain and mapped it to my proton mail, every time I share my business email, I get compliments towards how professional I am.
I don’t think it should matter and if it did matter, do you really want to work for such small-minded judgmental people? The people who would care about an uncommon email domain would probably also see it as a “red flag” if you say that you don’t use certain social media sites. Don’t waste your time playing pointless image games.
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.
I tried, and failed hard. When I bought my domain 10 years ago, I didn’t put efforts in reseaching domain reputation and got a .xyz tld. Now that tld smmes to be abused by spammer and also affecting my mail which go straight into spam folder.
If you still care and your domain is still hitting spam filters, have you setup spf, dkim and dmarc for your domain?
I think I had every thing setup correctly. SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are all green in Proton. Still, mysteriously end up in spam folder when I test with friends.
I work in HR. No one cares.
As many have said, it shouldn’t matter.
Personally, I have been known to look at email addresses because I assess everything the resume gives me. No, I don’t really care what provider you choose, but it’s a tiny bit of information.
So if your email name is “BigBootyQT” then I have a glimpse of your personality and how you may or may not fit in the role. That’s a real example BTW. It also might bear light in other ways, say if you’re applying for a job in cybersscurity but you’re using a yahoo email. Yeah, that’s a negative mark.
Will any of this be THE reason I ditch somebody? No. But it weighs with the rest of it. I would not disqualify somebody for a typo for instance, but it is a negative because that should not have occurred (especially of the role requires attention to detail).
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.
if your domain is like cock.li or smth then maybe, but protonmail.com sounds pretty professional
No, they don’t care unless you been denied once, auto reject, they will reject if you apply again with the same email address. I used different emails for different job resumes, I rotate to new ones, if use one more than a week
I use public@mydomain. Hasn’t negatively affected me. I created a burner Gmail account for a Google Meet interview and then tossed it aside after. I’ve been hired for two jobs in eight years using the public@ address.
@umami_wasbi Getting hired for what exactly?
My gut feeling is it might decrease your chance of getting hired by an average soul destroying big corporate, but increase your chances of being hired by a better company that values autonomy and people who think differently.
This can be applied to many other aspects of how you come across. Better to be genuine and let that exclude you from the bad roles, and improve your chances with fewer but better ones.
