Are companies viewing my resume? How do I track my resume visits?

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Hi everybody,

I am wondering if there is any tool or website out there which can track who is viewing my resume. It is very frustrating when you send your CV or Cover Letter and you receive no feedback from the company, you don't even know if they have checked it out.

Thanks for your help

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I assume you meant a resume on a Web page. Of course you can't track it with a DOC sent with the application or a resume on paper, for instance.

If you assign a unique but hard-to-guess "id" for each prospective employer that is embedded in the URL, you can identify if the page has been viewed by an employer by checking the access log.

Also, Apache's mod_rewrite can easily be configured to camouflage a URL like

http://blablabla/cv.pl?e=24f0a123be

into something like

http://blablabla/cv/24f0a123be

to make it a little bit more obscure to hide the fact that the ID is used for tracking purpose. Of course, smart employers who are familiar with Web will be aware of this sort of tricks and try to evade anyway, but that is something you may wish to try.