Why Lying on Your Resume With Staffing Companies as an OPT STEM OPT Candidate Will Get You Blacklisted

Staffing companies are not just recruiting for one client — they are recruiting for hundreds of companies at the same time and they talk to each other more than you think. When you submit your resume to a staffing agency it gets stored in their internal database forever. Six months later when you apply again with a different version of your resume where your job title changed, your years of experience went up, or a new skill magically appeared — the recruiter pulls up your old submission and compares them side by side. Even if you switch to a different staffing agency there is a good chance they are working off the same candidate databases and sharing notes on candidates who have been flagged. You might see a job posted by Google or JP Morgan on Dice but there is a staffing company sitting in the middle of that placement — and that staffing company has a history of every resume you have ever sent them. Pick one honest version of your resume and never change your job titles, years of experience, or skills to match what you think a job posting wants to see. Getting blacklisted by a staffing agency does not just close one door it closes every client they work with at the same time.