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My compromise here is invisible words in the PDF. I pack it with every freaking keyword I can think of because I have absolutely no issues with lying to a robot and don't feel the need to a respect a hiring process where they can't be bothered to so much as read my resume. Funny enough I often get offers after that even when I don't have some specific technology.

That said, my personal ethics don't let me lie to an actual person.



Do OCR systems still detect invisible words? I would have thought by now they'd use pixel based image recognition.


I doubt they're using OCR. More likely they're using one of the many text extractors available for PDFs.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3650957/how-to-extract-t...


I think nowadays they directly use screen share and image recognition like https://interview.sh for example


Interesting, that still works? I first heard about that a decade ago.


You can occasionally prompt the AI resume review systems using the white text as well.


Really depressing to think about, as one who has never tried to game the system.




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