From someone who has read a lot of resumes through the years: Don’t play resume games like this if you want to find a good company.
After you’ve read a hundred resumes in a week, spotting resume “hacks” like hiding words in white text, putting a 1pt font keyword stuffing section in the bottom, or now trying to trick an imagined AI resume screener become negative signals very quickly. In my experience, people who play games or manipulate with their resumes aren’t going to stop at the resume. They’ll manipulate through the interview, then continue to manipulate you when they have the job.
If you want to optimize your resume to be screened out by real humans at companies that care to read your resume but selected by companies using some bad ATS screener, these tricks might work. Seems like a bad gamble to me.
"dont you play resume games with me" shut up. The most callbacks i ever got was when i decided to say fuckit and just made a wanky graphical resume turning it into this elaborate parts explosion diagram. Nobody cared about any real experience and wouldn't shut up about how cool and original this resume was, "we need people just like you" I have never felt so strongly the world was so full of cruel incompetent idiots gatekeeping the entire worlds work force behind pure wankery
The funny thing in my experience is that HR actively wants to be manipulated as they perversely see it as a sign of trustworthiness and social competence. They don't want honest answers, they want flattering ones.
After you’ve read a hundred resumes in a week, spotting resume “hacks” like hiding words in white text, putting a 1pt font keyword stuffing section in the bottom, or now trying to trick an imagined AI resume screener become negative signals very quickly. In my experience, people who play games or manipulate with their resumes aren’t going to stop at the resume. They’ll manipulate through the interview, then continue to manipulate you when they have the job.
If you want to optimize your resume to be screened out by real humans at companies that care to read your resume but selected by companies using some bad ATS screener, these tricks might work. Seems like a bad gamble to me.