"After more than three years of job hunting, Miles Bradley suspects his best chance of getting hired may be a strategy he refuses to try: lying on his résumé. Bradley has been searching for work since October 2022, when he was let go from a contract software engineering role at AT&T. He said he's connected with several recruiters during his search, and that some have asked him to tailor his résumé to better align with a job posting - requests he's been happy to accommodate."
"However, Bradley said some recruiters went a step further - making significant changes to his résumé without his approval, which he felt didn't accurately reflect his experience and qualifications. These changes appeared to help him land a few interviews, but once he realized which résumé had been used, he declined the opportunities and stopped working with the recruiters. "I was like, 'wait, this résumé doesn't represent me at all, and I'm not ethically going to do this,'""
Miles Bradley has been unemployed since October 2022 after losing a contract software engineering role at AT&T and has searched for work for over three years. Recruiters sometimes requested résumé tailoring, and some altered his résumé without approval, producing interviews he declined when he found the changes misleading. He refuses to lie about experience and prioritizes ethical accuracy. He is in his late 50s and reduced expenses while staying optimistic. US hiring has slowed amid economic uncertainty, early AI adoption, and operational streamlining, with job openings down from over 12 million in 2022 to about 7.2 million as of August.
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