Did they purposefully go out of the way to make this email address unguessable/non-standard/multi-word
Source: Candidate, has a very specific marketing meaning, of you being the product.
I’ve worked at 3 different companies in the hiring space across two continents and “candidate” is the internal term they all ended up using internally for people seeking jobs. “Applicant” is too vague and “job seeker” is long and hard to scan (and it’s too similar at a glance to “job”, which is also not often used).
If “candidate” has bad connotations for you, I’d love to hear a better suggestion. But I still haven’t seen a more appropriate name for my database table.
Company / candidate / role / resume / profile / interview / offer. These are the terms almost everyone uses.
(Of course, the candidate also receives value because presumably they are looking for a job and get one in this transaction. But the whole "you are the product" trope always ignores the fact that the "product" person is receiving value in the transaction).