From the rise of pretend candidates and the usage of AI in interviews to nationwide safety dangers posed by North Korean actors infiltrating company IT jobs, we’re speaking about all of it.
We get into real-life examples and investigations to indicate how hiring processes are exploited and supply tips about figuring out AI utilization and faux personas throughout interviews.
00:00 The Damaged State of Hiring
00:17 AI and Safety Dangers in Hiring
00:39 Pretend Candidates and AI Filters
01:52 North Korean Menace Actors
03:15 Contained in the Laptop computer Farms
05:08 Infiltrating the Scheme
08:39 Stopping AI Abuse in Interviews
11:10 Conclusion and Last Ideas
The Scheme Infiltration Weblog: https://sashaingber.substack.com/p/the-23-year-old-who-infiltrated-a
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People using AI during interviews is so damn stupid
Employers are doing it also. Took 18 months full time to find a senior tech position with 20 years of experience. Most positions were fake and the rest were AI generated with nonsensical descriptions.
Wow this is scary stuff
Was so excited to see a new video from you in my feed, really interesting thanks 🙌
You’ll never take away my blue plastic calculators with red plastic buttons.
I'm real guys! Not just some pretty face lol
This threat is greatly underestimated by corporate HR departments. I've seen several instances of folks being hired for remote IT jobs who turned out to not be who they said they were. In all cases, we caught them within a day or two. Most HR departments these days seem to be taking the attitude that this is something that happens in the modern world, and as long as it is detected quickly and shut down, it's fine. As much as remote interviews and AI screening are conveniences, a final onsite interview goes a long way towards preventing these types of events. I've also been involved with cases where legitimate employees outsourced their work to actors in China. Again, detected pretty quickly and subsequent investigation revealed the employee regularly using corporate resources to communicate with the threat actor. Increased monitoring during the probationary period is a great control here.
Stop making excuses for HR professionals who fail to do their jobs and for companies that refuse to train internally but expect candidates to have decades of experience for entry-level roles.
HR pushed companies into using applicant tracking systems (ATS) because they found hiring too difficult. In response, job seekers adapted by using AI to optimize resumes to match ATS filters. Now HR is complaining that there are too many applicants, yet they still refuse to put effort into evaluating resumes or recognizing transferable skills.
At this point, AI will likely replace HR entirely—and honestly, it will do a better job. AI can assess transferable skills far better than humans, eliminating the need to "draw a picture in crayon" for recruiters. With increasing applicant volume, AI will soon be the only viable solution, making HR and recruiters obsolete within the next few years.
As for AI-assisted interviews, what's the problem? Using resources to solve problems is exactly what people do on the job. Do we really want a dystopian system where one wrong answer disqualifies someone forever?
Companies also created this mess by demanding one person do the work of multiple employees. If someone hires a North Korean team to act as a single remote worker, they’re essentially delivering what corporate America already expects—overworking a single person to the breaking point.
Honestly, after watching this video, I’m starting to see the appeal. If American employers won’t hire qualified people despite certifications and experience, and a team of "employment specialists" from North Korea can guarantee success, why wouldn’t someone be tempted?
This entire situation boils down to HR being fundamentally bad at its job. If it continues, it may lead to American citizens seeking foreign help just to get hired.
I'm not going to do this by the way it's tempting, hopefully I'll get hired within the next couple months. Unfortunately I'll probably get turned down during the interview because I don't have a mastery of some super basic easy software that I could learn within a month on the job.
It's absurd you think more software and more metrics is going to solve the problem… Yeah let's start critiquing based on time to respond instead of actually doing your job as an interviewer and human resources individual…. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 You're totally right we should hold it against applicants if they have bad video quality. For a remote job that probably requires very little video interactions….
Honestly bro the easiest way would be to make sure a person's verified with like selective services or something…. Which a lot of government entities already do you have to be registered with selective Services before you can even apply.
Thanks for the news cover, this is even deeper than I thought. Crazy.
i saw this coming remote whatever is just dumb. not much should actually be relying on remote online abilities. things like hiring should not be remotely done id put that at the top of the list of dumbest things to do remotely now that ai exists. it's a shame the world just is not trustable like this not as close to ideal as anyone this dumb thinks. it's sad there's many companies now already infiltration victims. hope customer security is not already bypassed this way.
So in America a creap can be a fancy French pancake. Even in the south we know this. But lol I get it.
This is actually easy to fix with decentralized identity technology
seriously? hiring north koreans is bad? for 99.9% of cases is not a problem AT ALL hiring koreans. i get it, if you have a firm of NATIONAL security… MAYBE. MAYBE! you should consider where your nationality. but would you really defend the biggest Fascist power in the planet? don't get fooled, US are the bad guys.
Is this why I can’t land an actual interview this past month smh!!!
You dont need interviews. You dont need a cover letter. Skip HR and go talk to the bosses, it works if you actually like the place and the work.
lmao, looks like you should become a N.K. spy so they coach you on getting a good job XD
Lol shitty interviewers throwing a screaming temper tantrum because candidates started using a fraction amount of automation these shit interviewers use after many years. Immediate temper tantrum screaming when the tables dont even turn but are angled like 5 degrees away.
The entire time before this they were smugly laughing at how smart they are and if candidates were smart they could work around their restrictions but since they couldn't, they really deserve the huge bonuses they get from scamming new hires and those “losers” deserve it.
What a joke. Maybe they should get a real job.
This is why I started telling people to learn korean about 2 years ago. This is why employers are asking everyone to come back to the office but even that doesn't work. There are already mole here in North America that will get into these government positions. To think I was thinking about doing something like a server farm for china in america. The problem with RTO is that the employers have never paid enough for people to live where they work so it just becomes a big layoff.
Ai reviewing Ai applications.
Good video, keep it up. You'll be at 100k subs before you know it!
Why do you think they are spies? Can they be just people who want to work and get usd ?
The companies who hire them deserve them this is great because people will stop using computers now to deny people access to jobs.