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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.

[polishdude20]

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

[filoeleven]

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...

[hoerzu]

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

[hansvm]

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

[sarlalian]

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

[wyclif]

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