For Those Using Hotmail or MSN as Job Email Address

[Resume Writer]

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to warn everyone that has, or is thinking of using Hotmail accounts for an email on their resume. This goes for MSN accounts, also.

Hotmail is fine to use, but just know that with their advanced spam filters, that they throw every unrecognized email address into your spam folder until you opt it in. So, if an employer decides to email you, it may end up in your spam folder.

Further, all spam is deleted in 5 days. So, make sure that you check it every day. I have had to tell many of my resume clients to check their spam folder when I send them their documents, as almost every time it ends up there.

Kathy

 

[Vik]

You can turn the spam filter off.

If you've created an account for the sale purpose of employment, it shouldn't be getting much spam anyway, right?

 

[midlifeflyer]

Not necessarily. Large email providers like Hotmail and Yahoo, even some of the larger pay-for vendors like Earthlink and Worldnet, get SPAM attacks that are base on computers generating names to put in front of the @.

I own my own domain. You should see the SPAM I get that is addressed to names I've never even heard of.

 

[Resume Writer]

Vik,

The spam always seems to find me no matter what email address I am using. However, if someone has their resume posted on an online job board, sometimes an employer can pay to search the database, rather than place an ad. So, if they generate an email to that person, it may show up as spam.

Further, even if someone applies online to a position, it is not necessarily sent from their email if they are filling out a form. In this case, it would show up as spam because they have not initiated the sending of their resume from their email address.

Hope that makes sense and that I answered your initial question.
Kathy

 

[Resume Writer]

Not necessarily. Large email providers like Hotmail and Yahoo, even some of the larger pay-for vendors like Earthlink and Worldnet, get SPAM attacks that are base on computers generating names to put in front of the @.

I own my own domain. You should see the SPAM I get that is addressed to names I've never even heard of.

I feel your pain, Mark!

Kathy

 

[Pilot124]

how can we check our SPAM? How do we know whats being sent there? How do we turn it off?


Sorry...I don't know anything about computers.

 

[Dan CFI/CFII]

If you're using hotmail, just click on the "bulk mail" folder ont he left side of the screen.

You'll find all about lower mortgages, people in Nigeria who have been referred to you, and probably a bit about prescription drugs at low low prices.

And you're right, having your own domain means that you get some really crazy stuff.

Dan

 

[Resume Writer]

It is labeled "junk email." All you do is click on that folder and open the mail that you want to look at; the others you can delete.