Why a hiring site should not get your daily address

A daily address on a hiring site collects role suggestions, ads, and companies you no longer remember. Those messages are not all junk, but they should not sit beside banks, family, and coworkers. Create one forwarding alias for the season. HR mail lands in your real inbox and stays in the archive for thirty days, so you can reread the subject and the sender. When the search ends, pause the alias. New mail is dropped while it is paused, so pause only after you are done waiting. Do not put a three-hour address on an account you may need to recover later.

Hiring mail arrives over months, not minutes. A three-hour address will not still be there for the next interview.

One alias for one season

The alias limit is one hundred. You do not need a new one for every company. A hiring site, a recruiter, and the companies you wrote to can share the season alias. Split one off only if a single sender turns noisy. Pause and delete are different. Pause stops new mail and keeps the address. Delete means that address will not receive again. Mail already in the archive keeps its thirty-day clock. Two-step verification is optional here. Turn it on with Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, or 1Password only if you worry that the login code to your real inbox could be reused with the account.

If one company starts sending daily ads, split that sender off. The rest of the season stays on the original alias.

Pause it at the end

Pause only after you are done waiting on an offer. New mail is dropped while the alias is paused, so do not pause while a reply might still arrive. Pause keeps the address and stops new mail. Delete means that address will not receive again. Rejections already in the archive keep their thirty-day clock, so you can still see who wrote.

After a pause, mail already in the archive can still be read for the rest of its thirty days. Delete only stops that address from receiving anything new.

Read it apart from daily mail

Alias mail arrives in your real inbox, and you can also reread it in the thirty-day archive here. Filter that alias into a job folder so the bank and your family do not scroll with it. When the season ends and the alias is paused, the folder goes quiet.

Filter on the alias address, not on the word hiring. Companies that never use that word would be missed.