Underscores and cute names are a turnoff to recruiters looking at your email address, according to new research from the Department of Social and Organisational Psychology at VU University, Amsterdam.
The researchers created six fictional resumes with different kinds of email addresses and then had 73 recruiters aged 20 to 65 fill out an online survey analyzing the cognitive ability,
personality and hirability of all six applicants. The researchers included some spelling errors and some funny email addresses. Despite having no spelling errors, the people with less formal email
addresses were less attractive to the recruiters.
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