🤔 Question for my recruiter friends out there... Are you seeing an uptick in the amount of fake/bot candidates in your applicant pool? I feel like 30% or more of our Software Engineer candidates for our US-based positions are super sketchy and activating my "Spidey senses" - lots of LinkedIn profiles that were created in the last 3 months (but supposedly have 10+ years of experience), most have at least one well-known employer on the resume (i.e. Microsoft, Meta, Accenture), or they have a LinkedIn link on their resume that goes to a 404 "this page doesn't exist" page. And when I get them on the phone, it's blatantly obvious they are using AI to answer the questions for them - lots of long pauses before answering and/or fillers to stall ("That's a great question. Hmm, let me think about that."). We are looking at piloting some software to try and verify candidates more on the front end of the process, but I was curious about how prevalent this has become and what others are doing to combat this. #bots #AIinterviews #recruiting
Definitely seeing an uptick here. It is always something :)
It's probably a combination of multiple things but that would include this thing: https://www.axios.com/2024/05/21/north-korea-it-workers-us-hiring
I saw an amazing amount of obvious interview fraud in the last 7 months (calls with obvious imposters).
I hate to hear this, especially because one of these open positions is for my team! 😅
100%. I get emails every 10 minutes all day every day from these type profiles and companies "pitching" their bench. Thankfully my junk mail catches most of them. Would be very interested in some software to keep this from happening!
Yes, for remote roles. They may even be technical, but they are not who they say they are.
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6moIs this under qualified people making up new LinkedIn profiles with fake experience and trying to pretend their way thru interviews? Kind of a waste of time for everyone