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falloutxlast Wednesday at 11:18 PM3 repliesview on HN

People have learnt a little while back that you need to use the white hidden text in a resume to make the AI recommend you, There are also resume collecting services which let you buy a set of resumes belonging to your general competition era and you can compare your ai results with them. Its an arms race to get called up for a job interview at the moment.


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AdieuToLogiclast Thursday at 3:11 AM

> People have learnt a little while back that you need to use the white hidden text in a resume to make the AI recommend you ...

I would caution against using "white hidden text" within PDF resumes as all an ATS[0] need use in order to make hidden text the same as any other text is preprocess with the poppler[1] project's `pdftotext`. Sophisticated ATS[0] offerings could also use `pdftotext` in a fraud detection role with other document formats as well.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applicant_tracking_system

1 - https://poppler.freedesktop.org/

Terr_last Thursday at 1:07 AM

I wouldn't be surprised if people tried to document what LLMs different companies/vendors are using, in order to take advantage of model-biases.

https://nyudatascience.medium.com/language-models-often-favo...