What does your email address say?

If you provide your email address to an employer, does it give away too much information?

Do you use a number in your email address? If you do, can the reader determine your age? If the reader can guesstimate your age by your email address, you need to change your email address.

Does your email address give away your hobbies, interests, religion, political viewpoint, etc? If it does, this is personal information that should not play a part in determining whether or not you are a person the employer wants to interview. However, most of us know that people have biases and if you give away your personal information, it can hurt you in the job selection process.

And for Pete's sake, do NOT have a sexual-based email address. You may like it, you may think it is cute, however a prospective employer will not view this as professional (the prospective employer may get a chuckle out of it but (s) he will think of you as the moron of the day).

When I tell people to sell themselves, I am not saying to sell yourself as a streetwalker - so do NOT, I repeat, do NOT have sexually explicit email addresses if you want to be offered a respectable job.