Hey, everybody, and welcome to the next video, we're going to be talking about a professional email

now.

There's two different types of emails.

There's private and professional.

And what I mean by private emails is, let's say you might have, you know, Lance, you know.

Put some numbers in there and I you know, whatever, right, and this is a completely random address,

I'm not using any anybody specifically that you're sorry about that.

So this wouldn't be an example of you using a professional email.

However, if you were Lance Smith, you might do Lance Smith at Gmail Dotcom.

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, [REMOVED] ninety-two at Gmail dot com.

Right.

You want to make sure it's professional for a workplace because that's how it's going to 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 email doesn't matter.

But if you're going to use a professional network or you're going to talk to people and a business card,

you're going to want something that identifies you as a professional, especially in the security industry.

You want that reputation that's going to 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 Gmail 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 in a free one is like Gmail, Yahoo and S and all of those are

considered free.

You can go and make one if you want to, and it's good to go.

But the problem with that is there's a lot of certification courses and other things like that that

just want you to use a paid email such as a dot gov edu, another company dot com that's like Google

dot com, whatever, 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 Gmail, 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 your 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 your born in 92, you can do 92 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, like our previous, you know, like [REMOVED] 92 at Gmail

dotcom, you don't you don't want a recruiter to see that it's their first instance of the 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

emails that aren't quite you wouldn't quite make them suitable for work.

I would probably get a new one and 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.