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Originally Posted by Scoe
I've cracked the "secret" code.
I see that all the time on craigslist, especially when I look at the car advertisements. People post a bunch of jiberish down below the text of their post so that when you search for a specific word it will hit on their advertisement. So, if you were doing a search for the word drummer and then the ad for the trucking job would pop up and you'd say that this ad has nothing to do with drumming, wth?
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Nope, that not the reason we do it. Hmmmm, should I tell the real reason?
Its so much fun watching cluggy think that its some sort of dishonest recruiter tactic. I guess I will let the big secret out of the "hiddin secret codes" on craigslist ads.
The reason people put those invisible words on some craigslist ads is pretty simple. Craiglist has a rule where they dont want you to run the same ads in multiple cities. Many people run scams on craigslist. They usually do this by running the same ad in many cities. Their servers look for multiple ads and will pull them if they find them. So if you just copy and paste a few random words at the bottom of your ad in white, people wont see them (except people like cluggy with too much free time) and their computers will think its a completely different ad.
Doing this helps us recruiters when we are have the same job in multiple cities. Sure beats writing a different ad for the same job in 50 different cities. That would take a long time.
So no big conspiracy here either....just a little time saving trick.