A link to your CV with your name (and see when it's opened)
Put yourname.does.software/cv on your applications. Update your CV without sending it again and see how often it gets opened, even from which application.
Reviewed
An attached PDF goes stale the day you send it and tells you nothing. A link under your own name that leads to your CV can be updated whenever you like, and it tells you whether someone has opened it.
Why a link and not just the PDF
When you change your CV, every application you sent before still points at the old version. With a link like yourname.does.software/cv you change the target once, and every link you have already handed out leads to the new version.
It also looks better. A short link with your name in the header of your CV, on LinkedIn or in your email signature says more than a Google Drive URL with forty meaningless characters.
Set it up in two minutes
All you need is your CV published somewhere with a public link, for example Google Drive, Dropbox or your own site.
Upload the PDF and copy its public link. Open it in a private window to check it shows without signing in.
On your subdomain, go to the redirect section and add a rule with the path /cv and the PDF's link as the target.
Put it on your CV, on LinkedIn and in your signature. If you already have a portfolio, point the root of the name at it.
/cv -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/xxxxxxxx/view
/github -> https://github.com/your-username
/ -> https://your-portfolio.com (the root, set separately)
Knowing whether someone opened it
Every visit to your name is counted. On the free plan you see total visits and the chart for the last 7 days. With the Starter plan, or during the trial, you also see how many visits each path got, so you know how many times /cv was opened. The Pro plan adds the time, the device and which site the visit came from.
What you won't know is who opened it. We don't use cookies or follow anyone from one site to another, and that is not going to change.
What you can do is use one path per application, /cv-acme on the one you send to Acme and /cv-globex on Globex's, both to the same PDF. If one counter goes up, you know which company opened your CV and when. The Starter plan comes with 10 paths and Pro with 30.
Worth knowing
Paths match exactly and ignore case. /CV goes to the same place as /cv, but /resume does not, unless you give it a rule too.
If you change the PDF's permissions or delete it, whoever comes in will see an error instead of your CV. Open it yourself in a private window after every change, it is the quickest way to know it still works.
A link under your name that you repoint every time your CV changes, and one path per company if you want to know which application opened it. The first two paths are free.