I am privacy conscious so I would like to use my proton.me account, but I wanted some advice. Should I use my gmail account for career related purposes or should a proton.me address be fine?
No one really cares as long as it’s not something extremely weird.
I personally opted for registering a domain name which I use to create an aliased email (along with a personal website), but this is mostly to set myself up for a possible pivot to doing consulting later on in my career. It’s pretty cheap, all things considered - I pay $12 a year for it.
Create a new email address for each round of job hunting if you’re going to apply to many places. I can guarantee this email will get spam for years to come. Job boards and recruiting firms sell and reuse email lists. You don’t want to still get spam offering you junior roles ten years into your career.
A Proton address is fine. Like others have said, keep it professional.
I think you’re over thinking this. The Proton.me account will be fine. Neither particularly beneficial or detrimental.
More important is the actual address. Ideally that should be your actual name, rather than something rediculous like iloveboobies1999@…
If you have a paid Proton account you can set up multiple email addresses under the same account if you want to compartmentalise your work and personal life.
How is choosing MS not making a conscious decision about privacy? Companies choose MS specifically because it has very strong controls to protect information. Same with workspaces to a lesser degree.
I have no idea. I was talking about GMail, not about Workspaces. OP wants to use their personal e-mail to apply to a job.
I mean, assuming Workspaces is a service by either Google or Microsoft (they both have an offering called similar to that), if you’re outside the US, they are required by US law (PATRIOT act & CLOUD act) to provide customer data to the US intelligence services.
See, for example, the recent news that the European Commission may not use MS365: edps.europa.eu/…/european-commissions-use-microso…
That’s the baseline, how all US-based services leak data, but obviously, how much data they leak, depends on how much data is stored unencrypted on their servers. And that’s where GMail is significantly worse than most services.
It doesn’t matter too much, just make sure it’s professional and not something like rabbitfucker@gmail. You could also just make an address specifically for interviews or whatever.
You should use Gmail. Reason being some lazily designed IT systems block emails that come from easy-to-register domains, and Proton among others frequently end up on the list.
If you’re an email purist and want to fight the corporations that do the lazy blocking by letting them miss your emails, go ahead, but it might not be the most effective protest.
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