# Engineer Gets A Job Offer. From His Own Company. For His Own Job.

**[TRUE STORY]** — by via r/recruitinghell · via Economic Times

A third-party recruiter’s AI scraped an engineer’s resume, used it to generate a job description, then flagged the same engineer as the perfect candidate. The recruiter reached out with an enthusiastic offer — for the position he already held. The post went viral on Reddit as the platonic ideal of everything wrong with automated recruitment.

*Source: [r/recruitinghell · via Economic Times](https://www.newspointapp.com/english/trending/engineer-gets-job-offer-from-his-own-company-and-for-his-own-position-how-it-happened-et/articleshow/1450482001787c6cc51e417c16db398d4063cb97)*
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