Never Send Your CV via Gmail(medium.com) |
Never Send Your CV via Gmail(medium.com) |
(Amusingly, my Google job offer landed in my Gmail spam folder years ago. But that was because of a weird thing where forwarding from my @university.edu account would screw with headers that Gmail uses to verify the authenticity of an email.)
Also...
> They must be using Gmail client to access their office emails, I guessed.
Is that even a thing? Does Gmail reroute stuff to spam that came into your inbox via POP/IMAP?
I wasn't aware of a feature like this, but a quick search turned up documentation for an "email quarantines" feature in G Suite (https://support.google.com/a/answer/6104172).
I do get mail received over POP from another account in my spam folder, but I suspect it doesn't explain this quarantine behavior.
I'm not sure if a G Suite email user can add a private email over POP/IMAP, but I would be a little slack-jawed if they could AND their personal mail could get pulled into the organization's quarantine?
Also:
> For a quarantined inbound message, the intended recipient receives no indication of the message unless you release it for delivery.
So the recruiter wouldn't even see the email in their spam box. It just wouldn't exist as far as they can tell if it was quarantined.
> Author applied to multiple positions via email and was not hired. He suspects this has something to do with his resume ending up in the spam folder on the other side, who use Gmail.
If this was a problem in an application I was debugging, I would highly mistrust this theory and dig deeper to find a more probable cause.
The spam filtering tools can indeed be frustrating and even dangerous; the answer is to find a way to cordially confirm receipt and make that a practice. I switched away from Gmail to another dedicated email provider and found even more of emails were getting sent to spam, with no real recourse for diagnosing.
And it's not like "email" is some esoteric thing he's only now come into contact with.
For example, don't say "GMail". This is about email. To misquote Babbage: "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a conclusion".
This conclusion screams of not being able to understand the logical effect of a known fact. I wouldn't want this person troubleshooting anything, for example.
And I didn't see many comments about the rest of his statements. It's a mess. He seems somewhat angry at GMail's suggestions (this would be on the sender side) because sometimes he doesn't want to say what GMail suggests. Again… confusion of ideas.
Actually, now that I think about it I'm seriously suspecting this was written by a bot. More articles than you'd expect are written by bots, and this is close enough to making sense (on multiple points), but without an actual logical point, that it's a possibility.
He says the company is USING gmail to receive.. that's where the spam-filter comes in. He could have sent this with any service and it still would have been filtered out.
Then he complains about gmail auto-complete? First, I have found it to be quite helpful.. but next, if you don't want it to autocomplete then you just keep on typing. Yeah sometimes it might try to correct a specific word.. just like everything else these days. It's not always going to be perfect.
For someone who is apparently trying to get such a tech job- not understanding the email filter was on the receiving end and he would have hit the same situation no matter what is... quite disturbing. Especially after going through the trouble to write an entire article about it.
- Oh, my spam was denied by gmail, what if I change this part?
This one line one sentence style seems to be popular on Medium.
But there is no rhythm. There is no flow.
Each sentence must have started on separate index cards.
Why wouldn't you weave them together?
So much white space, so many long pauses.
Do people enjoy reading this kind of writing?
That being said, if phone numbers are spam, I’ve been typing my phone into email signatures for like ever when I need to.
Forget about a CV, I think it's impossible to say which of your emails to any Gmail recipient would even go to their inboxes. Gmail has a very aggressive, as well as stupid, spam filter. I've seen emails go into spam even after adding an address to my contacts list and marking mails in the spam folder from some contacts as Not Spam.
When it originally arrived, Gmail really revolutionized how web based email ought to be done. Now it's just a bloated and buggy mess that has managed to get a very large user base. I shudder to think how (paid) GSuite accounts also lose genuine emails to spam.
It wasn't super clear to me (at least, on a quick read) what the recipient would/wouldn't see if they were given permission to admin quarantined mail, if the mail eventually got released from quarantine after someone realized it wasn't crap, etc.
I would add that I think it's a bit fickle and unkind for internet strangers to pass judgement on a person's ability to do their job based on a post like this. This individual did not ask for our opinion on their ability to do a job, but instead gave (a useful) warning about how the gmail client handles CVs.
That's one way to see it. To me it was about as coherent and thought through as someone yelling and on the corner about 5G towers causing coronavirus.