Fake job seekers are flooding US companies that are hiring for remote positions

Posted by arizen 4/9/2025

Fake job seekers are flooding US companies that are hiring for remote positions(www.cnbc.com)

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thmsths 4/9/2025|

Perhaps companies should go back to promoting their job openings at in person events? I remember a couple years ago when I went to a job faire, it was typical for recruiters to politely refuse your printed resume and instead suggest you apply through their online portal. Now that bots/AI have made applying trivial and resulted in a deluge of applications they can't seem to properly filter, I think it's time to try a different approach.

ramesh31 4/9/2025||

>Now that bots/AI have made applying trivial and resulted in a deluge of applications they can't seem to properly filter, I think it's time to try a different approach.

I have this theory in general that paper is going to make a huge comeback. We've passed the point now where there is no meaningful way to tell if something is AI unless it physically cannot be. Hand written paper and physical art is literally the only thing left that passes this.

zparky 4/9/2025||

Just you wait til I hook up a pen to my 3d printer (I know people have already done this)

confidantlake 4/10/2025||

I suggested this to a coworker at my job and he responded as if I had slapped a baby. I guess it is like telling a hammer company that a screwdriver may be the better tool in some use cases.

duxup 4/9/2025||

Hired someone recently. I sat in on several remote interviews and a couple ... I was suspicious.

I didn't see any "AI" candidates, but I was suspicious about a few / if they were in fact who they said they were.

The part I worry about is that maybe I was just too suspicious and some poor guy was playing it straight and I gave a thumbs down due to my suspicions.

jacknews 4/9/2025||

Are they applying to all the fake jobs?

ceejayoz 4/9/2025||

Yeah, this seems like a fair turnaround for the folks who've been wasting applicants' time for decades.

bell-cot 4/9/2025|||

> ...seems like a fair turnaround for...

Except the "them" who've been wasting applicants' time for decades is not the same as the "them" who are facing the flood of fake job seekers.

It's generally preferable that "justice" treats innocent parties and guilty parties quite differently.

rightbyte 4/9/2025|||

I can't stress this enough. There seem to be a great desire among some to punnish totally uninvolved people for some sort of systematic problem. Imagine being a prince from Nigeria ...

hackable_sand 4/9/2025|||

Idk dude. The schadenfreude is real. If a company wants to self-immolate to chase shadows, I will happily watch.

throwaway647837 4/9/2025|||

Is it a fair turnaround for the honest folks just trying to get a job the old fashioned way, whose resumes will get drowned in the sea of AI trash?

vlod 4/9/2025||

Pretty much so. Next to impossible to actually apply to a job.

I'm very experienced, live in the US and a friendly chap who interviews well, but because of everyone is using AI (applicants, recruiters, employers), it's next to impossible to get a reply to any posting or get trough to a 'human'.

angra_mainyu 4/10/2025||

AI interviewer interviewing AI interviewee - welcome to 2025

Xcelerate 4/9/2025||

So fly the person out for an in-person interview back like we did in the ancient year of 2019? This seems like a total non-problem to me.

derelicta 4/9/2025||

That sure won't make it easier to apply for full remote jobs...

hulitu 4/10/2025||

> Fake job seekers are flooding US companies that are hiring for remote positions

The empire strikes back. Until now, the job market, was flooded with false vacancies.

throwanem 4/9/2025||

Fake job ads, fake job applicants...I'm starting to think I was accidentally prescient when I found my bookbinding hobby a few years back.

Oh, they're nothing fancy, just perfect-bound with card covers and spines hand-lettered in silver paint on black bookbinder's tape. But they're workmanlike and sturdy and sound in the hand, and maybe it'll be worth someone's value to own words that not only have obviously been labored over at length, but that never change even when no one is looking at them.

Why not, I suppose. Printed words are already becoming a luxury, with the decline in material and workmanship in modern hardbound "prestige" editions reflecting their place among the economy of aspirational, status- and status-anxiety-signaling goods. Obviously I would have no market among these dreary neoliberal bourgeoisie, but I'm sure there are a few perverts on websites like this one who'd pay more for the produce of hours in an attic over hand tools and muttered swears, for something that even if it's just a trade paperback still feels and reads the way a book should.

josefritzishere 4/9/2025||

I think this article was written by AI. Seems like conspiracy nonsense.

GianFabien 4/10/2025||

Simple fix: Hire onshore persons, interview in person. Pay a living salary.

whoomp12342 4/9/2025|

this is why we can't have nice things.

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