"Request Read Receipt for a Message" On email

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Would this annoy employers?

 

It would me. And all I'd do is click "Block read receipt". So what would you have gained?

 

I use delivery and read receipt requests with recruiters just to try to get some sort of confirmation the email has got to them.

Employers - I probably wouldn't use it on a speculative email

 

I guess you mean for job applications?

I wouldn't - it's really annoying, and it doesn't mean that they've actually opened your attached CV.
If you were and employer and received several hundred applications a week and half of them had read receipts on them, you'd go nuts.

By all means use a delivery receipt, so if it doesn't get where it's going you can always double check that you've got the right address.

I don't 'get' read receipts.
The only reason that people put them on is so that they can 'proove' that they told someone something if things turn nasty. But if it came to that, there are surely other ways of tracking an email.

It's the technological 'I told you so'.