Here is a Job Search Hack

When you send in a resume, just take the text from the job ad, paste it in your resume, make the font wicked small, and color it white.

People reviewing a resume will never see it, but the software driven screening programs fill flag you as being a good match: 

This 10-second résumé hack purports to help you land your next job.

Some social media influencers swear by it. They say it helps you get past the first screening when an artificial intelligence bot or digital filter might scan résumés and look for keywords.

“White fonting” in recent years has garnered renewed interest across social media like TikTok with influencers suggesting that it will make a big difference for job hunters. It’s also ruffled the feathers of many recruiters who have publicly denounced it.

The concept is simple: Copy a list of relevant keywords or the job description itself, paste it in a résumé and change the font color to white. The hope is that AI bots or digital filters in applicant tracking systems read the white text and surface the résumé for human review. Because keywords are in white, the résumé will look normal to human reviewers.

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“The question is what sits behind” choosing to white font, said Andreea Macoveschi, senior director of the recruitment process outsourcing practice for global consulting firm Korn Ferry. “Is it lack of integrity or being savvy with tech?”

It's understanding the dysfunctional system, and getting past the the often arbitrary and meaningless filters is a legitimate part of the game.

The software filters are not about finding the best people, it's about getting the numbers down before an actual human being reviews you as a candidate.

Gaming a system that designed to be arbitrary is neither unethical nor dishonest.