An email address should communicate some form of your name, company or cause. It should not recap the “About Me” section of your Facebook page. If you want folks to take you seriously, the burden is on you to present yourself seriously.

With that in mind, please do not send your resume to a potential employer, query to a potential business partner or request for career help to anyone from an email address that reads anything remotely similar to the following:

  • miss kitty pants at email dot com
  • social media guru at email dot com
  • future mrs timberlake at email dot com
  • team edward 4 eva at email dot com

I’m begging you: get a Gmail account, pick some version of your name and then send business and career stuff from that email address only.

Promise me you’ll do this. You’re a professional; your email should communicate that. I’m looking at you, Hotmail, Aol and Yahoo! users. You know I’m right.

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UPDATE: Brazen Careerist featured this post; check out the comments! Man, folks get real defensive when you start picking on Hotmail, Aol and Yahoo! To clarify, I only called those platforms out because those users tend to be the worst “silly username” offenders.

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