How Job Applicants Try to Hack Résumé-Reading Software

Last year, Shirin Nilizadeh got a call from a friend who had been worn down looking for a job. Her friend had sent her résumé to infinite job portals, only for it to seemingly disappear into a black hole. "She was going around asking everyone, 'What's the trick?'" Nilizadeth didn't have job advice, but she did have an idea. A computer scientist at the University of Texas at Arlington, Nilizadeh specializes in security informatics, or the way adversaries can breach computer systems.