Professional Tip.

[Molten]

I admit I reluctantly gave out an old email recently to a future employer because they couldn't get my school e-mail to work for some reason. My old e-mail is not bad it's just a variant of "molten" but still. It's a good idea to have a secondary professional e-mail available when needed for specific situations like that. Now that I think about this more, I probably will do so now. Afterall, they are free.

EDIT: As for having the last name of Gamer...I'd suggest possibly leaving it off or just initializing it. An email like JamesG@x.com doesn't look unprofessional at all while still representing your name. I'm sure your last name will come up at some point in the interview process and they won't think anything of it.

[Pavan Dave]

I can't speak much, but in the 5th grade we had "gaggle.net" accounts through the school district. I was good with computers then but my nickname in my family was "Hacu" and I remember getting AIM when I was 11, so my screen name was Hacu11 and I used that. My teacher came up behind me and kept saying ... Why do you hack? I know what your email really means... (Hac[k] [yo]u)... and so I figured what the hell, I might as well change it and reverted to the hotmail email my dad made me when I was 8. PavanDave@ the hot mail.

I have about 15 different emails from different organizations that all forward to my current email (except my Uni email) from my old school gamer emails from those regretful days of no lifeing online to the standard issue VicePresident@frat.chapter email, and the awesome thing is that people think I'm responding from each of those emails individually.

People think many emails is a waste, and often times it is, but you'd be surprised at the response I get from my robotics email about sponsorship vs my personal gmail among other things. It just makes life easy when people don't have to guess if this person is from xxx organization because your email does the talking for you.


Pavan Davé


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[keehun]

Team 2502 assigns every one of their students/mentors with a first.last@team2502.com

Captains who set it up bypassed last name.

We also use that email address and password as a backend for an OpenID service where we use it to authenticate our forums. With that, we have email and forum working in same authentication table.

Thanks to Google Apps free edition.

[Boydean]

Originally Posted by keehun

Team 2502 assigns every one of their students/mentors with a first.last@team2502.com

Captains who set it up bypassed last name.

We also use that email address and password as a backend for an OpenID service where we use it to authenticate our forums. With that, we have email and forum working in same authentication table.

Thanks to Google Apps free edition.

Our team does the same. Staple members (team captain, mentors, PR group) has team email addresses that go on their business cards. We also took it a step further and setup a Google Voice account for the coach. This enables a easy transfer of 'power and communications' to another person in the time of crisis (that is if you look beyond the fact Google Voice number is free, therefore might disappear at any moment).