Interview invites and offers in spam
An invite or offer letter that lands in spam reads as a no-show or a candidate gone cold. You lose the hire and never learn the email simply was not seen.
// for recruiting
Candidate email that lands. Interview invites, offers, and outreach, in the inbox.
Recruiting runs on email that arrives on time: interview invites, offer letters, application confirmations, and bulk sourcing outreach. When ATS notifications land in spam, candidates ghost without ever seeing the message and you blame a slow funnel. Unspam tells you exactly where your candidate mail is going, per provider, before a hire slips away.
The deliverability problems we hear most.
Bulk sourcing torching your reputation
Blasting hundreds of cold outreach emails a day to passive candidates with no monitoring is the fastest way to wreck the same domain your offer letters send from.
ATS notifications nobody reads
Application confirmations, status updates, and scheduling links sent from Greenhouse, Lever, or Workday often share a sending pool. One flagged tenant filters everyone's candidate mail.
Why teams like yours pick Unspam.
// placement
Per-provider placement on every candidate email.
See Inbox vs Promotions vs Spam vs Missing across Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, Zoho, ProtonMail, and AOL. Candidates live on personal Gmail and corporate Workspace alike, so test an interview invite the way they actually receive it.
PLACEMENT · 6 PROVIDERS · 4s 4 / 6 INBOX
G gmail.com inbox · primary
O outlook.com inbox · focused
Y yahoo.com inbox
Z zoho.com inbox
P protonmail.com promotions
A aol.com spam · junk
primary inbox rate 67% · ↑ 4 pts this week
// blocklists
Watch your sending reputation before a hiring push.
Continuous checks across 40+ blocklists for your IP, domain, and from-address. Catch a Spamhaus listing the hour bulk sourcing trips it, not the week your top candidate stops replying.
CHECKING · 203.0.113.81 · hirely.com
13/14 PASS
Spamhaus ZEN
clean
SpamCop
clean
DroneBL
clean
Barracuda
listed
UCEProtect L1
clean
Invaluement IVMu
clean
SURBL
clean
URIBL Multi
clean
PSBL Truncate
clean
Manitu NIX
clean
Spamhaus DBL
clean
Mailspike Z
clean
Hostkarma
clean
UCEProtect L2
clean
next sweep · alert on listing
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How it works.
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Send a real candidate email
Forward an interview invite, offer letter, or ATS notification to a one-time Unspam seed address, the same message your candidates receive.
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Get a score
See your spam score, SPF/DKIM/DMARC verdict, blocklist status, and a heatmap of where a candidate's eye actually lands on the message.
03
See placement per provider
Inbox vs Promotions vs Spam vs Missing across Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, Zoho, ProtonMail, and AOL. Know which candidates are seeing you.
04
Put it on Autopilot
Schedule re-tests so you get a spam-rate alert the day your offer letters slip out of the inbox, not after a candidate accepts elsewhere.
A few common workflows.
A handful of the moments recruiting and talent teams reach for Unspam first. Most teams run two or three of these on a schedule the whole hiring quarter.
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Offer-letter placement check
An offer is the highest-stakes email you send. Run a placement test before a busy hiring week so you know it lands in the inbox at Gmail and corporate Workspace, not the spam folder.
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Interview-invite and scheduling reliability
Calendar links and self-scheduling invites are time-sensitive. Confirm they reach the primary inbox so a candidate is not marked a no-show because the invite was filtered.
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Bulk sourcing campaign health
Track placement across each step of a multi-touch sourcing sequence to passive candidates. The second and third touches are where Gmail starts filtering outreach as bulk.
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ATS notification audit
Test the application confirmations and status updates your ATS sends. A shared sending pool at the platform can drag your candidate mail into spam without warning.
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Pre-hiring-push warmup verification
Ramping outreach volume for a new req or seasonal hiring wave? Run daily scheduled checks beforehand so you scale into the push with a healthy reputation instead of a fresh blocklist entry.
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Staffing-agency client domain monitoring
Send candidate mail on behalf of multiple client brands? Run placement and blocklist checks on each sending domain so one client's reputation problem does not silently bury another's invites.
// FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
The questions recruiting, staffing, and talent teams ask before they run their first test.
Why do candidate emails land in spam when my ATS reports them as delivered? +
Delivered means the receiving server accepted the message. It counts Promotions, Spam, and dropped-to-folder as delivered. Unspam tests the actual inbox placement at Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, and more, the only result that decides whether a candidate sees your invite. Run a free inbox-placement test to see the real picture.
Does Unspam work with Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, or my outreach tool? +
Yes. Unspam grades whatever actually arrives at our seed list, so the sending stack does not matter: your ATS, an outreach sequencer, SES, Mailgun, Postmark, or your own SMTP all work. You add our seed address as a recipient and send a real message, then read the results in Unspam.
How do I know my SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are set up right for candidate mail? +
Every test breaks down which mechanism passed, failed, or aligned, per message, so you can confirm your ATS and your outreach tool are both authenticated against your domain. For a standalone check anytime, run the free email health check on your sending domain.
Our bulk sourcing volume keeps hurting our offer-letter deliverability. What do we do? +
This is the classic recruiting trap: cold outreach and transactional offers send from the same domain reputation. Monitor it with a daily Autopilot test and set a spam-rate alert, so you can pause or reroute outreach before it drags your offers into spam. A blocklist flag the hour it happens beats finding out when a candidate goes quiet.
Should I verify candidate email addresses before a big outreach send? +
Yes. Sourced and scraped candidate lists are full of stale addresses, and bouncing into invalid mailboxes tanks your sender reputation fast. Run the lists through the email verifier before a campaign so hard bounces do not poison placement for the candidates who are reachable.
Can I monitor deliverability on a schedule across a whole hiring quarter? +
Yes. Autopilot re-runs your placement test daily, weekly, or on the days you choose, and emails you the moment the spam rate crosses a threshold you set. It is built for exactly the multi-week hiring pushes where outreach volume and stakes are both high.
// ready when you are
Get candidates to the inbox, not the spam folder.
Run a free test on your next interview invite or offer letter. No card, no signup, just answers.