Guide
How to Know If a Candidate Opened Your Email
Use an email tracker in Gmail. It logs the moment a candidate opens your outreach, invite, or offer, without the candidate seeing anything. A tracker like Vero also shows the device, city, and every link click, so you can tell a candidate who never saw your email apart from one who read it twice and is thinking.
Silence from a candidate is not a no
Candidates miss emails, read them on the train, or sit on an offer while they talk to a partner. Without tracking, all of that looks identical: silence. So recruiters either over-follow-up and annoy strong candidates, or wait too long and lose them.
Open tracking splits silence into cases you can act on. Never opened means your email did not land, so resend or switch channels. Opened once and quiet means they saw it and are not ready. Opened five times means something is happening.
How to read the open pattern on an offer
An offer opened repeatedly is being considered, discussed at home, or shopped. Evening opens from a new device usually mean it is being read with a partner. That is the window to check in with something helpful rather than a generic nudge.
A candidate who opens every email but never replies is engaged and hesitant, not gone. Change the message, address the likely objection, and keep the door open. A candidate who never opens anything is a delivery problem, not a rejection.
Tracking outreach without wrecking your sender reputation
Vero works inside the Gmail account you already recruit from, tracks only the messages you choose, and adds nothing visible to the email: no badge, no sent-with footer. Candidates and hiring managers see a normal message.
Links are tracked automatically too, so you can see when a hiring manager clicks through to the shortlist or a candidate opens the job description, and follow up on the specific thing they looked at.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. An email tracker records opens silently via a tracking pixel. Read receipts that ask the recipient to confirm are ignored by most people; a tracker needs nothing from the candidate.
Not from the message. Vero adds no visible signature or badge. The email looks completely normal.
The offer is being weighed, discussed, or compared. Repeat opens, especially from a new device or at night, are a strong signal to check in while you are top of mind.
Yes. Vero tracks as many messages as you send and keeps every open and click in one popup, so a large pipeline stays readable at a glance.
If you sent it as a link, yes. Vero tracks every link click, so you know when the client actually reviewed the candidates.
Vero is free to start, with open and link tracking. Pro is $9 per month and adds the IP, device, and city behind every open.
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