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“Recruiting Fraud & Resume Optimization: How the Job Search Goes Off the Rails.”
“Recruiting Fraud & Resume Optimization: How the Job Search Goes Off the Rails.”
Part 2 of a series A few days ago I exposed the “executive-coaching disguised as recruiting” scheme. Now, let's shine a…
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Is LinkedIn Becoming a Haven for Grifting?
Is LinkedIn Becoming a Haven for Grifting?
A few days ago I wrote about how #OpenToWork has turned LinkedIn into a grift field. Today, I want to expose one of the…
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Do Project Managers Understand the Value of Risk?
Do Project Managers Understand the Value of Risk?
Those of us who have lived in the project management world for more than a few years have probably heard this key…
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☕️ Andrew Buck, PMP, CSM, CSPO shared thisThere are a couple of things that grind my gears professionally. The detail below is one of them, and we see this constantly. Organizations "talk the talk" on being skills-based, at least until everyone returns to their fiefdoms and continues implementing role descriptions that often are regurgitating a standard job description: Advanced degrees, skills unrelated to the role, little or no consideration to the hiring manager's true requirements. We've all been there, often on both sides of the desk. The other? Recycled job postings, especially on LinkedIn, with hundreds of applicants for each. Obvious when you see "reposted x days ago", or notice that the same organization is hiring for the same role that was on LinkedIn last month. And the month before. And probably the month before that. - Is it farming? - Using interviews to get the real answers for your current staff? - Misalignment of job description to the actual job? - Reluctance to pull the trigger and extend an offer? - Offering salaries that would insult a fast-food worker? - Lack of consensus? - Let's not even mention ageism. Because Heaven forbid we hire a candidate 7 years or more from retirement when we can hire the more youthful one who'll inevitably leave you in 3. Any and all of those? I think we've all seen them in organizations who desire alignment and talk-the-talk but haven't or won't walk-the-walk. That the system is broken is beyond doubt. Whether organizations have the fortitude to make the necessary changes? I have my own doubts. How about you? Feel free to discuss in comments. #hiring #JobSeeking #jobmarket #credentialism☕️ Andrew Buck, PMP, CSM, CSPO shared thisCredentialism is killing your talent pipeline. We exposed a hypocritical truth that thousands of job seekers feel every single day. Let’s be honest about what is happening in hiring right now. 👉 A CEO posts an inspiring status about hiring "grit" and "potential." 👉 The Head of People likes a post about the "skills-first" economy. Meanwhile, behind the curtain... The hiring manager sets the ATS filters to automatically reject any application that doesn't have "Master’s Degree" checked. It’s completely disconnected from reality. Here is the truth: A Master’s Degree proves you can finish Master’s-level coursework. It does not prove you can: ✅ Build a product. ✅ Calm an angry customer. ✅ Mentor a struggling team member. ✅ Pivot when the market changes. When you use automated degree filters, you aren’t filtering for "quality." You are gatekeeping based on access to privilege, money, and time. You are missing the self-taught engineer, the military veteran, the parent returning to work, and the career pivoter who has the exact skills you need. If you want to be a "skills-first" organization, start acting like it. Ditch the degree requirement. Focus on the results. Agree? Disagree? Have you ever felt gatekept by a degree requirement? Let’s talk about it in the comments. 👇 ♻️ Repost to spread awareness and follow Maid Dizdarevic for more helpful content.
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☕️ Andrew Buck, PMP, CSM, CSPO posted thisI'll lead with the key point: I quit LinkedIn Premium. I recently made the decision to quit LinkedIn Premium after more than 5 years of having an account. During this time, I observed that the platform has largely been filled with marketing spam, fake profiles, and numerous individuals promoting schemes on how to make money from LinkedIn—often by charging for advice that is not worth the investment. As a result, the perceived value of the platform and the benefits of a paid account have significantly diminished. At $30 per month plus tax, this adds up to around $2,000 over the years. Here are some alternative items that money can buy: - A paid account on ChatGPT - A couple of monthly streaming subscriptions - An Apple Lightning to USB cable for older iPhones - A handheld milk frother - A pound of specialty coffee - A box of specialty teas This is just a partial list of items available for under $30. Feel free to share your own suggestions.
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☕️ Andrew Buck, PMP, CSM, CSPO posted thisLet’s have an honest conversation about the job market. If your hiring process needs AI to reject good candidates at scale, the problem isn’t the candidates—it’s you. Let’s stop pretending the job market is “challenging.” It’s broken. And most of the damage is self-inflicted. Here’s what we’re actually dealing with: • A hiring slowdown masked as “strategic headcount management” • AI tools proudly scanning 1,000 resumes an hour—while misunderstanding most of them • Hiring managers asking for precision while HR posts the same copy-paste job description for every role with that title • Floods of applicants—many unqualified, many fake, and many perfect fits eliminated by filters • Dysfunctional organizations hiring for roles they don’t understand • And the evergreen classic: “We don’t know what we want, but we’ll know it when we see it.” This has been the disease of 2024 and 2025. And 2026? Same symptoms. New buzzwords. And let’s talk about “candidate ghosting.” Recruiters have been ghosting candidates for decades—now that it’s happening in both directions, suddenly it’s a crisis. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Hiring has been optimized for speed, volume, and plausible deniability—not outcomes. We’ve replaced judgment with automation. Accountability with tooling. And conversation with workflow states. In 40+ years of working, I’ve watched us gain AI, email, text, and infinite search—while losing the basics that actually worked: phone calls, follow-ups, human memory, face-to-face conversations, and someone willing to take responsibility for a decision. None of that was sophisticated. It was just human. And it worked—because people were involved. We are not hiring keywords. We are not hiring resumes. We are not hiring “top of funnel.” We are hiring people. So maybe—just maybe—it’s time to remember that in HR, the H stands for Human. Until then, I’ve stopped pretending this system wants to be fixed. I've stepped aside. But when the industry finally admits that automation without judgment was a mistake, I’ll be happy to help clean up the mess—with other people who still believe hiring is a human responsibility.
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☕️ Andrew Buck, PMP, CSM, CSPO shared this#LinkedIn was meant to connect professionals — not con them. Somewhere along the way, a growing number of “career coaches” and “#recruitingfrauds” made it into fertile ground for sophisticated #grifts targeting job seekers at their most vulnerable moments. I’ve been researching this #trend in depth — and what I’ve found looks disturbingly similar to the digital #scams we thought we left behind in our inboxes. #JobSearch #RecruitingFraud #ResumeOptimization #ATS #LinkedInSafety #CareerAdvice“Recruiting Fraud & Resume Optimization: How the Job Search Goes Off the Rails.”“Recruiting Fraud & Resume Optimization: How the Job Search Goes Off the Rails.”
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☕️ Andrew Buck, PMP, CSM, CSPO shared thisNot only have I seen what David Barwick is referencing, but I've experienced this pain firsthand with each company who is a client of iCIMS. You can use apps like #1Password or others of that ilk, but if you apply to multiple organizations using iCIMS, the process often redirects those unique sites into a single logon page at the site address of login.icims.com. This makes it impossible to determine which unique password you may have used for any employer site. If you use one common password, you're vulnerable, and any unique password will confuse a password wallet. I'm not a developer but I have constructed QA groups in the past and this is simply both a lack of QA, but also very incomplete requirements and test scenarios. And sketchy development practices. Side notes: This is designed to be constructive feedback, not a negative attack on an otherwise solid product. If someone at iCIMS wants to reach out and discuss this, let's talk because you're really failing your own process and your clients, and the combination reflects poorly on such a prevalent product.☕️ Andrew Buck, PMP, CSM, CSPO shared thisI just learned about this ridiculous issue for job applicants - have you seen this? Not only do companies make you create a unique account with a rigorously complex password - they didnt go the extra step to make the log-in page a unique address. Companies using the following sites for managing their job postings https://lnkd.in/gjkuSWYB https://lnkd.in/gDGsHg3Y so when you apply 10 different jobs your password manager prompts you to store/update these passwords each time because there isn't a unique landing page such as https://lnkd.in/g_EqX9nm It used to be we worked so hard to have a quick and simple application process in tech - but lately, I'm seeing very long and drawn out online applications that want you to confirm the information for your entire job history (that is often parsed incorrectly).
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☕️ Andrew Buck, PMP, CSM, CSPO shared thisSomething uncomfortable needs to be said: LinkedIn — the world’s largest professional network — is starting to feel a lot like the Nigerian email scams of the early 2000s. Behind polished headshots and “career growth” promises, a quiet industry of grifters has emerged — preying on professionals desperate for their next role. And it’s time we talk about it. Because if you’re #OpenToWork, you’re already a target.
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☕️ Andrew Buck, PMP, CSM, CSPO shared thisReposting for visibility. In the age of AI, the role of Project Management seems to be subject to automation or relagated to AI/ML scripts for tasking, scheduling, reporting, risk assessment and the like. But there's a very human element that can't be replaced nor easily understood by machine learning. And I think Daniel Hemhauser nails this one. #projectmanagement #programmanagement #projects #AI #ambiguity☕️ Andrew Buck, PMP, CSM, CSPO shared thisProject Management Is One of the Most Misunderstood Leadership Roles Stay with me on this... Because “Project Manager” doesn’t mean what people think it means. It’s become shorthand for timelines and tasks. For Gantt charts and meetings. For process and plans. But that’s just the packaging. Because you are not just running a project. You are: ✔ Holding tension in rooms where no one agrees ✔ Mediating between teams that don’t trust each other ✔ Delivering outcomes without owning any resources ✔ Leading change without being on the org chart ✔ Making progress when everyone else is stuck in politics Project Manager? That’s what they call you. But what you actually are is: → A facilitator of forward motion → A buffer for burnout → A translator of unspoken expectations → A fixer of broken alignment → A lighthouse in the fog of decision paralysis No other role in the company holds this much responsibility with this bit of recognition. You are leading without authority. You are delivering without direction. You are trusted because you earn it every single day. So the next time someone downplays your role, remind them: You’re not just managing plans. You’re managing possibilities. Do you agree?
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☕️ Andrew Buck, PMP, CSM, CSPO reacted on this☕️ Andrew Buck, PMP, CSM, CSPO reacted on thisI have taken a sabbatical away from the corporate work life for the past six months, which I had never done before in my many decades of work across multiple roles in different industries. Unequivocally, the best thing I have done for my relationship with Christ, my wife, my children, my friends, and myself. In my case, a level of financial freedom (thank you God for all you bless us with! 'cause it all comes from you), and professional circumstances came together to allow for this experience, while also being very clear that money is not the main thing, God is. I have prayed in the mornings, surfed (SUP surfing is surfing!), exercised, lost weight, met new great people, and came closer in the relationship with my wife more now than ever. Our entire family, children, husbands, fiancés and grandchild travelled together to Lima, Peru where we had adventure, fun and ate the best food in the world (no that is NOT a typographical error, it is a fact). During this time I have also experienced the ultimate pain of watching a close family member come to the doorstep of dying only to see God claim him to Himself and whisper: I have a different plan for you, and see him come to life again. I am grateful for each of you whom I have met along the way of our job related and personal adventures, because I know I don't do life alone, and you have been and are a part of my journey, thank you. The next chapter is yet to be written, although I am working on a "rough draft" as we speak. If you find yourself coming to Melbourne, FL let's share a cup of coffee and hear what you've been up to. Until next time, ‘The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace.’ Number 6:24-26
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