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5. Pasting the job description in tiny white font at the end of your resume - DON’T DO THAT

Someone I follow on Twitter posted today saying that he learned of the following resume hack: copy/paste a job description, make it super tiny (2.5 pt) and change the font to white, then post it in the footer of a resume to somehow get past a sorting algorithm. Is this a real tactic, or is embedding keywords from the job description into your resume (if relevant) just as effective?

Definitely do not do that. Many/most online application systems will strip out that formatting and render the text into normal-sized black text, and it will look like you inexplicably and sloppily pasted the entire job description at the bottom of your resume.

The other version of this gimmick that often gets passed around is to just paste keywords from the job description in white font at the bottom of your resume so that human eyes won’t see it but automated screening will — which again ignores that the system is likely to render it in normal text, and you will look like you’re trying to game the system and don’t trust the employer to assess your qualifications correctly on their own.

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