Everybody welcome to the next video.
We're going to be talking about a professional email now there's two different types of e-mails.
There's private and professional and what I mean by private emails is let's say you might have you know
Lance
put some numbers in there.
GTA IV whatever.
Right.
And Jim what I got.
This is completely random address.
I'm not using any anybody specifically at.
Sorry about that.
So this wouldn't be an example of you using a professional e-mail.
However if you were Lance Smith you might do Lance Smith at G.M. dot com.
You see how the difference kind of looks here you can do dot Smith underscore there's a lot of options
you want to try to stick to a name but you also want to remove any vulgar or explicit names you know
you don't want anything like you know fucking ninety at G.M. dot com right.
You want to make sure it's professional for a workplace because that's how it's gonna be treated.
So keep things out of like stuff like that to your personal side you can do whatever you want.
Personally give Comcast that e-mail doesn't matter.
But if you're going to use a professional network or you're going to talk to people hand out business
cards you're going to want something that identifies you as a professional especially in the security
industry.
You want that reputation that's gonna start building up your personal brand which we'll talk about in
the future video.
But there's two kind of steps to this you can do.
You know like we said John Smith at G.M. dot com right we can do something like that.
But the best approach is to not use a free email service but to use a paid one.
So the difference between a paid and a and a free one is like Gmail Yahoo.
And that's and all of those are considered free you can go and make make one if you want to.
It's good to go but the problem with that is there's a lot of sort of certification courses and other
things like that that just want you to use a paid email such as a dot gov dot E.T. you another company
dot com that's like Google dot com whatever or whatever company you work for that or your own domain.
So even buying your own domain such as for will take John Smith's example so you can do John at John
Smith dot com.
So you can see here this is no longer a free domain.
It's not considered a freedom.
I mean like G.M. It's also a professional email and since you own the email server you can pick whatever
alias in front of the email that you would like.
So try to make sure that if you have the option Make sure you try to use a custom domain with your name
or whatever your blog is with your email as you are professional email or you can use Gmail as well.
But try to keep the name or the alias which is this part right here of the email to match something
that expresses who you are as an individual in terms of your professional standing.
So keeping names and if you do for example underscore John Smith and that seems to be running out and
you're born in 92 you can do ninety two or nineteen ninety two but try to limit that as much as possible
if you can get your full name in some way shape or form into the alias.
That's the most ideal.
But again some people have common names that are more common than others so you might run into problems
like that but adding a few numbers at the end that makes sense or maybe even not your birth year.
But anything else that kind of makes sense for you but that still doesn't make it look explicit or anything
like that it can still be easily remembered.
And that's another key important piece because when a recruiter looks at your resume the top thing on
your resume is going to be your email address your name and identifiers like that.
And if if they see something like you know are pretty simple.
You know it like 92 G.M. dot com.
You don't You don't want a recruiter to see that as their first instance of you and your brand as you
and your person because that's going to set a bad image right away and they might just skip over you
just because of something like this.
So always keep that in the back of your mind try to get as much of a professional email as you can.
If you've been using you know high school e-mails that aren't quite you wouldn't quite make them suitable
for work.
I would probably get a new one and start started off from there.
You can keep your private as private but when you're looking at a professional going into the field
you need to make sure you portray that level of professionalism.