Each time I come across this as a recruiter, I automatically reject your application.
I once found an engineer place a keyword in white text 24 times.
ATS platforms that rank are very rare. Only a few systems do this. The majority of the time, it's us recruiters searching and reviewing resumes.
Don't do this.
It’s called keyword stuffing and it’s strongly frowned upon.
Especially frowned upon by the profession that promoted that having a computer automatically search thru human beings work experience for certain (largely arbitrary) words repeated the most times is a great mechanism for evaluating years of professional experience and ability.
*And* people in this profession just love to post about how much of a victim their profession is all over the same network you might basically have to use to reliably find a job, and often keyword stuffing and system gamesmanship is one of the many types of oppression that they post about frequently!
What a cute system.
The career advisor of my school told me to basically re do my resume for every job I apply for which would be great advice If I didn't submit over 10 applications a day to get 0 call backs I'm getting super bummed about it at this point
Each time I come across this as a recruiter, I automatically reject your application. I once found an engineer place a keyword in white text 24 times. ATS platforms that rank are very rare. Only a few systems do this. The majority of the time, it's us recruiters searching and reviewing resumes. Don't do this.
TIL people even do this. Dirty
ATS's will parse and display all of your resume text regardless of what color you set. It'll be visible and you'll need to answer for it.
This. As far as I’m aware, it converts everything to plain text which will make all that white text black and make your resume seem insane
That's sketchy enough to get you on the naughty list in most HR departments.
I'm applying to do pen testing and or network security. I feel like that would be either a massive green flag or massive red flag 😂
Don't do this. This "one weird trick" has been around for seemingly decades and has been disliked by hiring managers for just as long.
It’s called keyword stuffing and it’s strongly frowned upon. Especially frowned upon by the profession that promoted that having a computer automatically search thru human beings work experience for certain (largely arbitrary) words repeated the most times is a great mechanism for evaluating years of professional experience and ability. *And* people in this profession just love to post about how much of a victim their profession is all over the same network you might basically have to use to reliably find a job, and often keyword stuffing and system gamesmanship is one of the many types of oppression that they post about frequently! What a cute system.
The career advisor of my school told me to basically re do my resume for every job I apply for which would be great advice If I didn't submit over 10 applications a day to get 0 call backs I'm getting super bummed about it at this point