Would you judge a person by their email address?

I highlight a few of the more popular prejudices concerning peoples choice of email address:

• Yourfullname@gmail.com is better than sexybexy@gmail.com
• Choose your email service wisely. Gmail has plenty of sex appeal, but an AOL address screams 1996.
  

  As an IT exec, I definitely made judgments against prospective hires based on email addresses (as well as a wide array of other factors). It wasn’t uncommon for me to have 100-500 resumes for a single open position, and I didn’t care to rely on HR to sort through them, so I did it myself, and I needed some way to get down to a short-list of around 10 people. As such, it was pretty easy to toss a resume because somebody had a goofy email address. And I would certainly raise an eyebrow at a supposed IT tech who had an AOL.com address. – Mike De Lucia

  As an IT manager in the tech field, I have to say that I’m a little prejudice when it comes to using a Hotmail or AOL address for business or on a resume. AOL is a more dated personal email address. Hotmail is known as an email for kids, for people who don’t care if their mail is thrown out if they don’t log in for awhile, and for a spam throwaway address. – Gankaku

• If you want to be taken seriously in business, host your email from @yourcompany.com, or risk people questioning your credibility.
  

  I’m a photographer and also wonder when I see other photographers without a domain name email.
  It seems as though they aren’t serious about their career if they haven’t taken the time to create a website and therefore have a domain name email. – veronykah

So are you one of the many people who does not want the bother of switching email providers, and would rather stick with an ‘unfashionable’ email address?

Has your choice of email address ever hindered you or caused you an issue?

Let me know, leave a comment!