You may have a wonderful resume formatted on a very sophisticated sheet of paper and you may be dressed in a very handsome suit fit for a company executive but if the e-mail address typed on your lovely resume is as avant garde as allure2130@, then the sophisticated image you’ve worked so hard to achieve is useless!

Trust me, many applicants have committed this mistake, thinking that such a simple detail will not matter. Wrong! Always, always project professionalism. Create another e-mail account. It doesn’t matter if you use one of those free sites out there, as long as the account itself is formal enough. Your best bet is using variations of your names:

johndoe
john.doe
jdoe
john_doe