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Re:Change Your Name by ozim on Sunday August 09, 2015 @04:57PM (#10031558)
I agree here with Natch, compare point about signaling weakness with sending your CV from "[email protected]" to "[email protected]" or even "[email protected]" what looks most professional? Can you imagine reading CV of a person with fancy kid mail?
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Re:Change Your Name by BinaryIdiot on Monday August 10, 2015 @12:37AM (#10032678)
> Can you imagine reading CV of a person with fancy kid mail?

Yes. In fact I did quite a bit of hiring at some of my previous companies and I never cared about email (why would I care about email? This isn't a signal, this is noise). Do people, at least in tech, really care about such things? At least in my deals I never found one. I'd imagine in stuffy jobs it might be something to look down upon but in tech? That seems silly considering how progressive our industry typically is.

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Re:Change Your Name by ozim on Monday August 10, 2015 @09:53AM (#10034552)
If you want to hire someone detail oriented will you look inside his CV if he has "detail oriented" listed or you just see he has typos?
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