Job applicant reveals ‘foolproof’ resume hack she used to land 3 part-time positions

A musician who applied to 65 job openings and failed to get one interview bypassed tech systems with a little-known “dystopian” résumé hack to land three part-time positions.

“Did I girl boss too close to the sun and now not only have one, not two, but three part-time jobs? I did,” Cami Petyn told her 542,700 TikTok followers while giving herself a bow.

“I was terrified a couple of weeks ago. I applied to probably 65 jobs and wasn’t hearing anything back,” Petyn said before sharing she became worried that she would have to sell her things and move if she didn’t find a job while she focused on her music career.

Luckily for Petyn, one of her friends shared “a hack that’s incredibly dystopian” to secure job interviews “left and right.”

“I guess because we actually live in a dystopia out of a Philip K. Dick novel, AI is causing a lot of us to not get jobs, besides in the recession, AI is partially to blame.”

The social media user revealed that many companies use artificial intelligence to help HR sort through applications before they reach human eyes, rejecting those that don’t fit the job requirements.

“The problem is AI will say you’re not a good fit if it can’t read the résumé if the formatting isn’t AI friendly,” Petyn said in her April 25 video which has been viewed over 1.2 million times.

She described the hack which she claims is “foolproof” to be AI friendly.

To work around the pesky AI bots, the candidates should go to the online listing and “highlight the entire job description” before copying and pasting it onto their résumé.

Next, the cheeky hack calls for users to make the font size as small as possible before turning the ink white, so it is naked to the human eye, but AI would recognize the hidden text.

The AI system aims to read every keyword it is programmed to detect and allow the applicants’ résumé to be sent to the next step in the hiring process.

While the hack is a great way to help people get more job interviews, it also means more work has to be put into it.

“This does mean who have to alter your résumé for every job you apply to which heavily sucks,” Petyn said. “But you know what sucks more, panicking about not having a job.”

The musician shared that she not only has been getting more interviews after using the hack and submitting the application with “quick reply,” but she is also emailing her résumé to the company and briefly introducing herself.

“Like I said, I applied to like 65 jobs and wasn’t hearing anything back and I started doing this dystopian ass s–t and it worked and I’m very, very grateful.”

Petyn isn’t the only applicant who shared that the hack has worked for them in finding a job.

“I applied to over 1k jobs in a year and heard back from four. Did this and heard back a day later five months ago. It works,” one commenter claimed.

Others have pointed out to get rid of all the “fancy formatting we were taught” and change it to basic text and bullet points.