# Resume Email Help?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-email-help/597635>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 26, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-email-help/597635 "2011-09-26T06:03:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![TurningJapanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@TurningJapanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TurningJapanese)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-email-help/597635/1 "2011-09-26T06:03:59Z")

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Help please?

I was recently laid off and I’m getting my resume together. I haven’t sent out a resume in years so I am at a loss on some of the newer etiquette.

My problem is my email… example… say my name is Jane Q Public Married; my everyday email is jqpm99@gmail.blah That just seems like a jumble of letters to people that don’t know me. I have another email, Jane99pm@gmail.blah , which, for no real reason, just doesn’t seem proper to me.

I can sign up for Married.Jane99@gmail.blah or Jane.Married99@gmail.blah it’s just that I have so many addresses already!

So my question… should just I go with email 1 or 2 or would it look better if I just use a new email with my full name? If full name, does the first/last name order matter?

Thanks for any advice!!

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-email-help/597635/2 "2011-09-26T06:45:23Z")

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If your name is uncommon enough to be able to get something with your full name, that would be nice. Otherwise, don’t sweat it. [Jane\_the\_boozer@gmail.com](mailto:Jane_the_boozer@gmail.com) would not be so great, but after someone puts it into the system, it won’t matter much. Spend your time proofreading, not trying out email addresses.

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**Author:** ![TurningJapanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@TurningJapanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TurningJapanese)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-email-help/597635/3 "2011-09-26T06:57:08Z")

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Ha, I’m stressing this much over the email address; you should’ve seen me sweating the details of the resume! 😛

> [@Voyager](#):
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> [Jane\_the\_boozer@gmail.com](mailto:Jane_the_boozer@gmail.com) would not be so great

Do you know me? 😉

I though I might be over thinking it; just making sure. I will go the full name route.

Thanks so much for the help!!

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-email-help/597635/4 "2011-09-26T08:17:24Z")

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Buy your own domain name, so you could be [noparse]Marge@simpsons.com or [Jane@austen.com](mailto:Jane@austen.com)[/noparse] or whatever. Then set up forwarding to your gmail account.