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The Recruiter’s Guide to Fighting “White-Text” & ATS-Evasion Tricks (Parsing Hygiene) Common ATS-evasion techniques and why candidates use them White / invisible text — font color set to background or zero-width chars (U+200B, U+200C, U+FEFF). Used to inflate keyword density without visible clutter. Tiny / hidden fonts — font-size ≤ 3pt to hide tokens. Image-only resumes — resume as screenshot/PDF image to defeat native extraction. Headers/footers & layered text — place...