I’m using Proton right now. Someone suggest I should get a Gmail instead for higher chance of success. Is that true? How risky is it for Google sanning those mails in terms of privacy?
No, I actually purchased a domain and mapped it to my proton mail, every time I share my business email, I get compliments towards how professional I am.
No, they don’t care unless you been denied once, auto reject, they will reject if you apply again with the same email address. I used different emails for different job resumes, I rotate to new ones, if use one more than a week
As many have said, it shouldn’t matter.
Personally, I have been known to look at email addresses because I assess everything the resume gives me. No, I don’t really care what provider you choose, but it’s a tiny bit of information.
So if your email name is “BigBootyQT” then I have a glimpse of your personality and how you may or may not fit in the role. That’s a real example BTW. It also might bear light in other ways, say if you’re applying for a job in cybersscurity but you’re using a yahoo email. Yeah, that’s a negative mark.
Will any of this be THE reason I ditch somebody? No. But it weighs with the rest of it. I would not disqualify somebody for a typo for instance, but it is a negative because that should not have occurred (especially of the role requires attention to detail).
I use first@firstlast.tld I bought my firstlast.tld several years ago. Figure it would look good. I then put a modified resume on my domain but when I started to think about being a security professional that didn’t seem like a good idea. I now have my domain bring up the IP, browser, and few other pieces of info and show it to whoever goes to the site. It is either that or blank page and I think the first is more fun.
It shouldn’t matter. When you get hired, they’ll give you a new email address to use.
It’s all good, especially now that they have proton.me when it was protonmail.com I had some issues saying it over the phone as some people didn’t understand and it is long to spell.
if your domain is like cock.li or smth then maybe, but protonmail.com sounds pretty professional
Proton leaked a user’s IP address to law enforcement, you should seek alternatives. source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/privacy-focused-protonmail-provided-a-users-ip-address-to-authorities/
They complied with a swiss court order, what’s surprising there?
Alternatives like Tuta would be subject to the jurisdiction of the Germany, and Germany’s laws are not as good as Switzerland, as they are part of the 14 Eyes. You don’t actually believe alternatives like Tuta would defy a court order, right?
(Pro tip: Maybe use a VPN to hide your IP. ProtonVPN is subject to different laws as Protonmail and if the activist have used the VPN, their IP would not have been leaked)
They should not record the IP in the first place. It looks like you are right about using a VPN on top of their email service according to this.
Proton can be forced to log IP addresses via a Swiss Court order (at least for its Email service)
Protonmail is a widely used and common email provider. There is no reason why an employer would be prejudiced against your application based on you having a Protonmail address. I think a far more common thing employers think about when seeing applicants’ email addresses are things like “haha, they’re still using their email address from when they were 8 of alexdaboss at gmail dot com”, but I highly doubt they care about what domain it’s on unless you’ve got like a pornhub.com address or something.
It will not hurt your chances.
I use public@mydomain. Hasn’t negatively affected me. I created a burner Gmail account for a Google Meet interview and then tossed it aside after. I’ve been hired for two jobs in eight years using the public@ address.
I don’t think it should matter and if it did matter, do you really want to work for such small-minded judgmental people? The people who would care about an uncommon email domain would probably also see it as a “red flag” if you say that you don’t use certain social media sites. Don’t waste your time playing pointless image games.
A lot of companies use Google mail anyways so your emails will be scanned regardless.
My boss never cared about my disroot email. He just asked what is was
I use my own first@last.com (well actually it’s last-net.com because I couldn’t secure any better domain. It’s too common.)
Never had an issue.
