How to Know If a Candidate Opened Your Email
Learn whether a candidate opened your outreach, interview invite, or offer, how to read repeat opens, and when a link click is the stronger signal.
In short. Use an email tracker in Gmail. It records opens and eligible link clicks on the messages you choose. Vero can also show available device, network, and approximate location context for genuine clicks and direct opens, helping separate no visible engagement from a recipient who followed a link.
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.