Email Addresses and Other Contact Info

This is really part of the topic of career management and professional networking in general.

Career management and networking are supposed to be ongoing, long term activities, not something you fire up whenever you are ready to make a change.

Not only do you need to make a continuous effort to do this, but you need to make it as easy on yourself as possible to allow it to happen.

One simple example is managing your email addresses; you need to have one for professional networking that you can maintain over a long period, but try not to get too polluted with spam.

I recommend getting one from Google gmail, or perhaps Yahoo, or MSN, etc. They are free, you don't have to change when you move and change ISP's, they're accessible from the web, anywhere. With google, you can also download to Outlook or other email clients if you wish. Try not to use these outside of your professional networking efforts if possible.

You don't want to use emails that change every time you make a job change or physical move (employer email or ISP).

You will also almost certainly have an employer email, and an ISP email. Use work for work of course. ISP email maybe for misc. web logins, things that are likely to generate spam.

There's nothing more frustrating for a recruiter to have a great opportunity for a candidate whose contact info has become completely obsolete in a matter of only a few months.

College grads who use their *.edu emails on their resumes and applications are really missing the boat.