No I’m not going to post some humorous, anecdotal emails that I have received, but I noticed some funny email addresses in our Jobseeker intray today and I wanted to stress to jobseekers the importance of not having an email address starting BoozerPhil@, LazyK@, StinkyPete@ etc. Whilst these email addresses are great fun for communicating with friends they can become a bit of a liability if you supply them to Employers and are hoping for a job with them!Also I note there are a number of people that use ‘joint’ email addresses, i.e. MarkAndEmma@ or RickyBianca@. These too give a bit of a poor impression and it will be well worth signing up for your own email address just for applying to jobs.

In this current climate, you want to make sure you have all the positive points in your favour no matter how trivial.

There are loads of free email sites now; the obvious are Hotmail, Yahoo, MSN, Gmail/Google Mail. If you have a favourite service not listed then let people know by leaving a comment below.

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