Put the season alias on the hiring site
Jobs
Which address to put on an application
Hiring mail lasts for months. A three-hour address cannot hold an offer, or a password reset.
Hiring mail has its own rhythm
Suggestions, tests, rejections, and offers arrive in pieces over months. They should not sit beside the bank, family, and coworkers, and they will not survive a three-hour address. Keep one forwarding alias for the season.
How the alias meets HR
The limit is one hundred aliases. You do not need a new one for every company. The hiring site, the recruiter, and the companies you wrote to can share the season alias. HR mail lands in your real inbox and stays here for thirty days. Split one company off only if that sender turns noisy.
HR mail lands in your inbox
Split that one sender off
What to do when it ends
Pause the alias after you are done waiting on offers. While it is paused, new mail is dropped and the address remains, so do not pause while a reply might still come. Pause is not delete. Delete means that address will not receive again. Mail already in the archive keeps its thirty-day clock.
Do not register a long account on a short address
A hiring site, a company portal, or any account that sends password resets to this address cannot use a three-hour inbox. When the address expires, the code has nowhere to land. Use an alias, or your own inbox. Neither gear can send mail out for you.
Use the home address for one message. Open a forwarder when the sender will write again.