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Sr Director of Recruiting - Daxko

🤔 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

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6mo

Is 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

Kirt Kreutzer

Building successful talent partnerships with startups, SaaS companies, and advertising agencies 🤝

5mo

Definitely seeing an uptick here. It is always something :)

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Kristen Fife she/her

🏳️🌈Senior Recruiter (Startup->SMB->Enterprise Global F50->500 exp) - Career Strategist| Writer/Author (check out my articles!) Recruiting remote Solutions roles in N. America (US/Canada), & EMEA (UK/Ireland/Germany)

6mo

I saw an amazing amount of obvious interview fraud in the last 7 months (calls with obvious imposters).

Zarah Dodaro

Product Manager, Payments

6mo

I hate to hear this, especially because one of these open positions is for my team! 😅

Aaron Andrews

Technical Recruiter - Vaco | Birmingham, AL

6mo

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!

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Audrey Chernoff

Senior Recruiter | Textio Certified

6mo

Yes, for remote roles. They may even be technical, but they are not who they say they are.

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