r/madlads • u/ycr007 • 15d ago

Reductio ad fontium

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u/grnfnrp 15d ago

I paste the job advert into my CV font size 0.001 in white then pdf it so the ingest system auto ticks all the screening requirements

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u/ForThe90 15d ago edited 15d ago

That's smart. I know people used the white text/ white dots in school to avoid getting flagged for plagiarism.

Hadn't thought about using it like this. Then again, the jobs I applied for only use people that read the cv's instead of using a computer to select cv's first, so it wouldn't matter in my case.

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u/Kachwachips 15d ago

Wait what, How did they avoid plagiarism again? Do you mean instead of spaces between the words they put in dots which were white?

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u/ForThe90 15d ago

Yes, it's exactly done like that. I know people who did that to avoid triggering the software. Of course, if too many people do this it can become it's own problem again at some point, so maybe vary it up with letters and numbers instead of dots? 🙃

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u/Kachwachips 15d ago

Wow Thank you so much lol!!

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u/ForThe90 14d ago

Be aware that this was 6 years ago with one specific software and there is no guarantee that it always works. 😉

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u/Kachwachips 14d ago

Thank you for the heads up!