Is it okay to use hotmail on a CV? (letters, employers, work)
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In healthcare, many companies' internal networks block access to yahoo e-mail, Hotmail, and g-mail, due to the security problems and constant spamming. When new pieces were added to HIPAA under the HITECH Act many healthcare companies strengthened network security and this included blocks to these spam-ridden easily hacked e-mail sites.
So you may be giving HR reps an e-mail address that they can't use, and they may skip over you and just go to the next resume in the pile.
Interesting...
Last year, I applied to over a dozen healthcare/medical institutions around the country w/ a gmail account on my CV. I don't think HR depts had any difficulty contacting me that way.
Also, there are different 'clearance' levels (for lack of a better word) that different staff members have. Most likely if you're in HR, you're not accessing/transmitting PHI. Even so though, our MDs/other clinicians have no problems contacting patients who are using gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc accounts.
Personally, I have my own domain, but I am in the tech industry. My backup is a gmail account. When I look at resumes, I may take a snob's perspective if I see an aol.com or hotmail.com address, but I would never...EVER...not hire a good & qualified candidate because of the mail provider that they use.
I used to work for EarthLink & when dial up was dying a very slow death, EarthLink was still making millions off of people who were paying them $19.95 for a dial up account they never used just so they could keep their @earthlink.com email address. People get attached to their email addresses as much as people get attached to their mobile phone numbers. Once you have one, you never want to let it go.
In healthcare, many companies' internal networks block access to yahoo e-mail, Hotmail, and g-mail, due to the security problems and constant spamming. When new pieces were added to HIPAA under the HITECH Act many healthcare companies strengthened network security and this included blocks to these spam-ridden easily hacked e-mail sites.
So you may be giving HR reps an e-mail address that they can't use, and they may skip over you and just go to the next resume in the pile.
my last job was in a big healthcare system and while we couldn't receive unsolicited e-mail from free domains (as i learned when i tried to work from home and e-mail myself my completed work!), it was no problem sending out to those addresses. and once we'd sent to them they could send to us. i used to schedule interviews for my boss and the domain was never an issue.
a couple of times i've seen job postings that say they don't accept submissions with hotmail, gmail etc addresses. but that's very uncommon.
and yeah, if a company can't figure out a way around the free e-mail issue (giving those permissions to people who will need them, for example), it's not a very well-run company. the vast majority of jobseekers have free e-mail addresses. it's uncommon for people to have their own domains or use their isp e-mails, and of course they'd be idiots to use their work e-mail if they have one!
I cannot even believe this is a topic; no one in their right mind will think of anything about your email address whether it is yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc.
If someone actually did think something about it, I guarantee you will not want to work at that place.
Agreed. Unless your email address is @webtv.net, LOL.
Interesting thread. As long as your email account works fine, it should not matter. All the large free providers have issues time to time, but for the most part, free email is the easiest to use for everyone looking for work.
I believe the only time an email address might be non-professional when looking for work is, if your username before the @ sign shows something about your hobby that is too personal or revealing. Example: PartyBoy69 @ aol.com
From a decade or so ago, I do remember some of the tech snobbery around people using aol.com email addresses and so on, but if the candidate resume looks good, that should not really matter in the grande scheme of things.
In healthcare, many companies' internal networks block access to yahoo e-mail, Hotmail, and g-mail, due to the security problems and constant spamming. When new pieces were added to HIPAA under the HITECH Act many healthcare companies strengthened network security and this included blocks to these spam-ridden easily hacked e-mail sites.
So you may be giving HR reps an e-mail address that they can't use, and they may skip over you and just go to the next resume in the pile.
So what email provider should a person use?
you pretty much listed every one
and doesn't a personal domain email address cost money?
I'm not saying I wouldn't notice it. Working in technology, I don't think I've seen a hotmail address that I can remember, for ages. But would any hiring manager here actually toss a resume because of it?
Maybe my criteria for candidates is that far off these days, and I should be much more superficial.
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