Is the email address on your resume keeping you from getting an interview? If your email address is something similar to biggpapa69@emailco.com, it may be keeping you on the job market longer than necessary. A professional email address shouldn’t give a company any clue to your religious beliefs, political party, or extracurricular activities. The email address on your resume should be just as professional as everything else you put in front of a potential employer. Ideally, your email address should be similar to firstname.lastname@emailco.com. In addition, using an email address like hireme@emailco.com or iamtherightcandidate@emailco.com may seem clever to you, but they often look desperate to hiring managers. I often suggest that job seekers create a separate email address just for job seeking. That way, all of the correspondence regarding your job search is in one place and it won’t get lost in the myriad of forwards from friends and family.
Take my advice; create a professional email address for your resume. There are several sites that allow you to create a free email address (e.g. gmail, yahoo, hotmail.) You will thank yourself when you get that job offer 🙂