Did They Get My Email? Did They Read My Resume?

We send an email with our resume, proposal, or business collateral and wait to hear back. We wait for a day or two, a week or two debating to followup or not. Are they just not that into you or did your message get lost in cyber transit?

Anyone looking for a job or doing business development knows the old refrain, "They just aren't getting back to me!" or "I haven't heard from them".  We can worry ourselves to death, wait too long and lose out, or follow-up too quickly and look over-anxious and too hungry. 

Maybe you have resorted to the built-in feature Microsoft provides that pops up a pop-up box on the email reader's screen asking if they want to send back a confirmation that to you that they have read your email. I always click no just because I think that box is intrusive and a bother that I have to click shut so I extrapolate that into assuming your are anal retentive, obsessive-compulsive as well.

I have found a handy little widget that attaches to all my out-going emails and let's me know when the person has opened the email at the other end without asking them or getting their permission to let me know. Ha!

When I first installed MsgTagI decided to only use it on selected emails and turn it off most of the time. Then I forgot and left it on and realized how much I had this little voice in the back of my head who was doing auto check-ins on sent emails and fretting about hearing back.

Not only that but I got unanticipated benefit from this widget because it told me how long from when the person opened my email, it took for them to get back to me. Believe it or not in some situations that can be a helpful gage of the affect you had on them through your email.

Do they know they are being email stalked? Well yes, and no. If you use the free version of Msgtagand they happened to scroll down to the bottom of the email they would see the one line ad from the company. If buy the Plus version you can personalize or hide their ad in the email footer. The MsgTag Status version provides a dashboard to track all your email messages which is perfect for inside sales, business development , customer support or lead generation. 

I see the application as a perfect job search accessory. No more wondering and guessing if they got your resume email. You will know. And, no, I am not in their affiliate program but I am a happy user spreading the word.

Try it, it's free, you'll like it.