[raving-richard]

Sorry, but I'm not going to hire anyone for a technical position if they don't even have their own domain name. Seriously, talk about turn off. You're willing to spend £1500 on getting a job, but you aren't willing to spend less than £100 getting a domain and hosting for a year? (And I know that you can get domains for like $2 a year, and good hosting for less than $25, so £100 is far more than you need.)

Any professional tech person shouldn't having their email @ gmail (or any domain that isn't their own), or their website at something.wordpress.com or blogspot.com.

You can still use Gmail and Wordress.com, that's easy. If you're exceptionally lazy and can't be bothered using the incredibly easy ways of installing WordPress on your own hosting system (and using IMAP for email).

Also, for your education, I suggest recording it, to put the important stuff first: 2000-­‐2004: Bachelor of Computer Science (or whatever it was in), Babes-­‐Bolyai University, Cluj-­‐Napoca, Romania.

And if you speak Romanian, put that as well in your language section. If you only speak English, take out the entire section (looks stupid with only one language).

[jblok]

You wouldn't hire the guy because he doesn't have his own domain name? That seems somewhat harsh.

I agree it comes across as more professional when you do have your own domain name, but with 10 years experience I imagine it's not that he doesn't know how to do it. It's probably just not a priority for him.

[MrBuddyCasino]

For someone who can articulate what he wants as well as this guy, frankly I'm willing to ignore minor signaling issues like missing domain names.