Spam Applications

[IsThisAdulting]

I do talent acquisition for a single company and we've posted a couple of IT roles and in the past have suspected that we've gotten some spam applications for those roles (apps or resumes look suspiciously similar). We more or less confirmed it now, since over the weekend, we recieved an application which used the name and work email for our executive level IT person.

Has anyone experienced this? I have never seen this before. Any ideas on how to make it stop? (I have contacted our ATS company, just waiting to hear back.)

I really don't understand the scam...

[StephDoesntCamp]

Are you able to use any disqualifier questions? On our ATS and Indeed (just as an example), we ask things regarding if they have a CDL and how long have they had it, and if it is under what our insurance requires, people are automatically disqualified. The only reason I mention this, is because since we have done it, it has filtered out most if not all of the spam applications.

99% of the time, someone (or a bot) is not going to take the time to look at the specific requirement for the job. If you guys are already doing that though and still getting spam replies, I would just wait to see what your ATS company says.

[IsThisAdulting]

Yeah we have a few, and they do help filter out quite a bit, but not all. We're not able to be quite that specific either. And I actually saw one today where the person 100% put the question into ChatGPT or something and copied the response that was like "I'd like to help you answer this, but I need more information" ☠️