Sending in fake resumes?

Needless to say, the ethics of this are... questionable - and that's a charitable description.

It's also kind of amusing, observing the lengths to which some people are willing to go to boost their careers.

Stop wasting people's time you dumbfuck.

This is stupid on so many levels.

-> Wasting time (yours and the resume readers) -> You'd have to make up other sections (education, other experience, xc's, etc) to a.) not be tracked if/when they figure you out, and b.) to have an actual placebo -> Fucking other people out of the legitimate interview process -> You are taking one job for the sole purpose of getting an interview at the second job? What is wrong with you?

This is an interesting way to waste time, most people opt for watching porn.

Very creative and equally ridiculous.

This is a very stupid approach. I could suggest a much better way but I do not want to help you because something does not seem right with your head

Just do it and post the results here.

I agree that you shouldn't do this, but I don't necessarily agree with some of the rationale.

• Obviously the recruiter isn't spending a half hour wondering if you're worth it just to invite you to the behavioral interview. Its a quick screen
• The people wasting the recruiter's time are those candidates who are unqualified but exaggerate on their resume and cover letters. These guys actually get called in for 1st round, book an interview time, often pass and book a 2nd round, go to that and when the technicals come up, completely bomb and get exposed as a liar and time waster. These people waste recruiters time, not the guy who sent in a resume and didn't reply to the email inviting him to 1st round
• As for your own time? Like buddy mentioned above, that 30 min spent would probably get you a much clearer idea of exit opps than any mixed response you might get on here or from informational interviews
• Have you seen some of the responses written on here to questions about exit opps? Unless the answer is obvious as fuck, the responses turn into a heated debate between the people giving the advice...some of these poor guys end up more confused than they were in the first place
• informational interviews are way more time intensive, just sending out all the cold emails alone would take more time. Then once you meet with the guy, he might give you generic, biased or unclear advice

That being said, I wouldn't do ti because the lying on a resume part is too unethical for me. I don't even round up my GPA on my resume. I felt kind of pissed to think other people take advantage of this trick but I'm glad to see most people haven't been doing this.

Despite reading the posts here, I'm failing to see the ethical problem with this. Is utilizing a "secret shopper" an unethical method of collecting data on performance? Guess Marriott and Hilton are unethical companies.

For each job posting, there are usually dozens to hundreds of resumes. Resumes are screened in literally seconds. If you're contacted for an interview then don't accept/reply and simply make note of the response. Time "wasted" of the resume reviewer is about 2 minutes if you're actually contacted.

As far as lying on a resume? LOL. Probably the dumbest comment I've read in a while, Mat-Reis. You're not "lying"--you're testing responses. You'd be lying on your resume if you accepted the job interview and/or the job position under false pretenses.

I actually did this when I was in college a year before on-campus recruiting started. It worked and it let me understand where I stood and where I would stand when the time came.

I'd welcome a rational explanation as to why this would be unethical.

I wish i could shove my dick so far up your dick that it creates a gaping vagina, because that's who you are.

OP has a tiny dick. And he needs to get laid.