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Re:Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?” by monocasa on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:03PM (#32998077)
Earlier in my career I would no joke add an invisible layer to my resume with the job description from the company I was applying to copy pasted in it in order to beat the auto keyword scanning.
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Re:Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?” by Aromasin on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:25PM (#32998345)
Glad I'm not the only one. I tracked the uptick in interview offers using this method, and it was nearly 4x more. Only one recruiter seemed to notice, and gave me a dressing for it. In my eyes, play stupid games, win stupid prizes (me).
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Re:Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?” by throwaway743 on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:53PM (#32998738)
Noticed this increase in response with this method as well, while I was applying a couple years ago.

Seemed to work really well specifically with city government jobs (New York), based on the response/application ratio. I'm guessing it may have to do with their antiquated systems.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?” by FerociousTimes on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:40PM (#32998538)
Like an embedded passage of text within a PDF document?

That's plain old keyword stuffing.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?” by yieldcrv on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:08PM (#32998126)
ha nice I’ve done that for website metadata and crawling scripts there

never thought of for resume

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