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> To be fair, legitimate candidates might try to beat keyword screens. IMO, this technique has been exaggerated to the point of being counterproductive. As so
by PragmaticPulp 4y ago
> To be fair, legitimate candidates might try to beat keyword screens.
IMO, this technique has been exaggerated to the point of being counterproductive.
As soon as the interviewer discovers that some claimed experience on the resume was a lie, they can't trust the rest of the resume. The interviews get harder and the interviewer starts looking deeper for other inconsistencies or outright lies.
Often, discovering outright lies on someone's resume is sufficient to drop them out of the hiring pipeline completely.
Spamming keywords that you don't actually know might get you into flawed companies that don't know how to screen or interview candidates, but those generally aren't good places to work.
- bluGill 4y agoKeywords are useful though because there are so many ways to say the same thing and half the time nobody cares about that keyword anyway. I've seen more than one place demand keywords they clearly don't use on the job - if I can talk about php even a little I can claim it even though it has been 15 years since I last saw php...
- itronitron 4y agoYes, at this point I see technical keywords in a job posting as accumulating into a set of reasons that I wouldn't want to apply.
- giantg2 4y agoI agree, but it seems like every company does it. Apparently they're all great companies to work for with exciting opportunities to change the world using a cutting edge tech stack built by world class expert coworkers.
- giantg2 4y agoI'm not talking about lying. The main thing I was talking about is using something like tiny white color text to reiterate stuff from their post. Or literally say I don't have any experience with X, Y, and Z. It's not lying, a printout doesn't show it, but it can trick the system. One other example might be using the same inflated wording that job postings use (puffery?). Using fancy jazzed up language sometimes helps, especially if it includes keywords that are reasonably true or a matter of opinion (like the job posting saying it's a great opportunity or cutting edge tech).