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OfficialAPCNig:
Have you ever handled 11,000 applications at once in your life?

If you have not, then withdraw those statements.

Delivar:
You are not serious. Are you hiring email address or you hiring skills? So if you see a skilled person for the job you will discard him because of email address?

orbitalgis:
Why dont you try applying for a job with Ernst and Young with femiprettygals@yahoo.com.I would take the advise of a recruiter any day.I doubt you have a good job or you are anywhere near a good job.A recruiter has just published expo on acing interviews and you are complaining.Some Nigerian youths should be used as sacrifice to the god of nothing.

Rebekkah:
DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER, the cliché stands

Using your name as your address is good, nevertheless, If the email ad isn't too bad like the one LaudableXX suggested, y not? Don't wait for a full name ad like onikolapoomojogbodarasimiolowogbogboro@hotmail.com before you proceed.

Some recruiters actually request to attach the cover letter so as to print a hard copy of it, and many don't like lengthy emails (myself, e.g). Do indicate your preference while advertising. I support putting a little introduction of your skills in job emails, though.


Try as much as you can to go through a candidate's documents. Only discard CVs if THEY ARE NOT TAILORED OR SUIT THE ROLE not because they are unimpressive. Nigerian recruiters have this annoying habit of not doing so. Imagine an interviewer asking a candidate "do you have any experience/education" while he/she has a copy of the candidate's CV in hand. You have to make them feel you want to study them even as you expect them to study your company.
Reasonable enquiries will focus on their potentials and what they have to offer not on obvious facts.

So many wrong people are in the right positions already because of recruiter bias

Another display of incompetence by recruiters is the act of sending undetailed IVs. How will an invitee acknowledge this?
e.g,

You're invited for an interview
on Mt. Everest
Tuesday by 11:00am bla bla bla...

no position indicated, what if you're a scammer?

THE COWARDLY ACT OF NOT NOTIFYING FAILED CANDIDATES OR saying "WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU" when you plan not to. SO GROSS & DUMB– attitude of lazy recruiters.

Be nice to all candidates. That one you rejected yesterday could hire you tomorrow.

OfficialAPCNig:
So denying an applicant job for breaking our standards is bias?

Ok, they should go to court, we would gladly meet them there.

qanda:
While it may sound harsh that most hiring managers critique email addresses, it does happen because they do create a first impression.

Below are 7 deadly email sins to make sure to stay away from so you don’t end up in the “unprofessional” pile.

1. Wrong Name
John_smith@.....(dot)com (when your real name is David Jones)
Don’t confuse the reader from the start! Is your name John Smith or David Jones? There is no reason to have the hiring manager ask this type of question at the start of your resume.’

2. Fantasy Name
invisibleman@.....(dot)com
Are you applying for a job or are you auditioning for a video game?

3. Creepy Name
collegestrangler@.....(dot)com
Given the fact that over 80% of companies now run background checks on potential employees, there is no reason to give an employer the impression that you may have a criminal record.

4. Sportsperson:
tigerwoods50@.....(dot)com
This might have been ok when you were in high school, but not in the workplace.

5. The Numbers:
998877665544@.....(dot)com
Confusing! You are just asking for someone to send an email to the wrong place.

6. The Crude Name:
hairychest@.....(dot)com
Not a good first impression. Also, many of these email address contain words that will usually get filtered into the spam folder.

7. Confess love email address:
bonjovilover@.....(dot)com

Again, you are applying for a job, not a role as a groupie.

So… what should you do?
Stick to the basics. The best email address will contain your full or partial name, followed by either characters or numbers. Think about how most workplace email addresses are set up – most of them contain a combination of an employee’s first and last name. Try to mimic this – a professional email address represents a professional job Candidate. Don’t give your reader the wrong impression!

Article Credit: Extract from the Ultimate Student and Graduate Handbook. Access the Book for free on Q and A App. Download Q and A App from Google Playstore.

Important knowledge you would gain from the book
•How to Break into a Career
•How to avoid Job Search Burnout
•What to do if you don’t Succeed at First
•Why Nobody Calls you back for a Job Interview Request
•How to replace Objective Statement with a Qualification Profile on Your CV

majekdom2:
all these ITK , are arrogant and don't ever want to learn. You are looking for a job and for some reason, you are bound to follow some rules. Is your email not part of your CV. You are going to be representing their company and how you present yourself matters. What comes to mind when you see an email such as ilovebitches@gmail.com. Stop being silly and learn.

cytell56:
Na Wa o, how did you get to know. Aproko!!!

majekdom2:
all these ITK , are arrogant and don't ever want to learn. You are looking for a job and for some reason, you are bound to follow some rules. Is your email not part of your CV. You are going to be representing their company and how you present yourself matters. What comes to mind when you see an email such as ilovebitches@gmail.com. Stop being silly and learn.

pennzo:
It is quite worrisome that a young person posted this and others are liking it. Very worrisome. There is no sound recruiter on earth or in mars that will entertain a funny email address that is totally unrelated to your name. How can your email address be crossfire345@gmail.com? Who will take you seriously. The OP has taken his time to educate young people here on what a professional application should look like and you just go ahead to tag him lazy. Do you know how many mails they have to open? They have to work smart. What will it even cost you to open a proper mail? 5 minutes at no cost. We need to be better.

solelymade:
I'm sure you will agree with me that nowhere in this world will such 'bias' earn anyone at that any sanction(s). It is not a gender, race, sex, religion, colour, age issue.

solelymade:
I'm not applauding anyone rather I'm saying candidates fulfil the requirements either petty or not, logical or not, objective or subjective. Better to be on the safe side.
It won't hurt anyone really

Babiod:
Nice initiative.But why can't Google partner with one of our indigenous ICT help build better infrastructure to bolster better WiFi.African is tired of aids such as this,we'll pay,we need better infrastructure/structure for better economy,employment opportunities and growth.It is also a win win for them.hence we know nothing is free even in Freetown.

Oluwabash:

Google is not deploying its moonshot Project Loon to provide connectivity, instead, it is partnering with Nigerian fiber optic telecoms service provider 21st Century to roll out Wi-Fi spots at public places such as colleges, malls, markets and bus stations.

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/27/africa/googles-free-public-wi-fi-africa/index.html

solelymade:
Somehow I share your believe and it should be so. But, for this recruiters with a workload the size of Manhattan combining both objective and subjective evaluation skills in recruiting for top organisations it is a means to cut down on invites.

Applicants can tied up on all loose ends especially on this simple things. There is too much supply of skilled workers in today's market so workers and applicant are put at the mercy of their employer and recruiters.
All is well

t2luv1:
Ok since you know the actual number mind telling us. I bet you won't

solelymade:
I understand you feel it's petty and inner prejudice but it is one means by which recruiter prune applicant list. It is valid to them to employ such means though it lack objectivity.

t2luv1:
You are being lenient with them. I wonder how someone from the North happen to own an oil well. Maybe his family lineage extend to the South. 85% of the oil wells in country are own by Northern people. I keep saying it only the Northern people love the current set up of this country.

chronique:
exactly. the misinformation came from channels but some pea sized brain idiots here are just typing thrash and talking about how good he is at his job when that is actually not the bone of contention. i dont know how these tweets he had back and forth with reno,sounds reasonable to anybody. it's even embarrassing that someone of his status and level,is the one tweeting all that nonsense.

solelymade:
You are rather full of excuses. The Op has offered vital points on why some applicant don't get invitation to job interview, a subjective way of pruning the unending list of applicants to be interviewed but valid to the recruiter. Like it or not.

fineboynl:
.. who don't know Reno, FFK and fayose, lai mohamend, adaseno, abode, atiku, falana, abarti and asari are nairalanders. including military chiefs. Rocha's etc

NaijaTalkTown:
That Reno guy no know how him go take escape him wan bring God enter the matter. D guy rope am well sha ���.

Btw I'm sure most iddiots here still don't get what happened. Reno quoted Channels TV and Nairaland (whose reports were accurate by the way) and posted a fake picture in other to incite hatred for the President. He has been doing that intentionally to deceive you iddiots for a while now and this guy busted him and now he is trying to act Godly and "gentlemanly" but the guy isn't having none of it �

chronique:
the nbs person is daft. if channels news reported an item yesterday and said 7m jobs were lost in the last 21 months,are we expected to assume it's an old news article? obviously,everyone would assume that report to be a current news item. so why the unnecessary back and forth about it being a lie? it looks like they intentionally assembled all the dull and non-functioning brain humans to work under this buhari's govt.

OfficialAPCNig:
I don't know about other Recruiters, but it is a no-no for me.

I only forgive numbers if I believe that name had be taken and the number should just be 2 and since you are using dot in your address you don't need numbers again. It makes it cluttered.

Akim.thomas@gmail.com
Akimthomas45@gmail.com

OfficialAPCNig:
Use A Professional Email Address

I don't about other Recruiters, but for me, a stupid email address will never earn an invite from me.

What the heck are, Chizzybaby@gmail.com, Zainab4luv@yahoo.com? Seriously, these ain't email anyone seriously looking for job should be associating with.

Personally, I prefer emails with the applicants' full name or first name.

Try as much as possible not to use numbers in your email address, only when necessary.

Something like this is manageable, LekanAzeez86@gmail.com but Lekan86@gmail.com is unacceptable to me.

Officiallekan@gmail.com, IamLekan@gmail.com, LekanOfficial@gmail.com are all acceptable to me.