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Deleted Hubstaff Talent, Hackajob and other PII risks – another tale of job search Autumn 2025

03 December 2025 Comments off

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I have been “on the bench” twice this year of 2025. I was a Principal Software Engineer at Solirius-Reply for 2 years and then that employment abruptly came to the end in June. I immediately started searching for a new role, open to both permanent or contract, because of awareness of job market. I had […]

Fake Jobs List 2016

19 May 2016 Comments off

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Fake Jobs Fake jobs gives a bad name for the information technology contracting industry. It is just a scam to scavenge and harvest CVs from hapless developers, designers and architects and then to source the leads (human network communication) for recruitment agents. It starts for me, at least, with the recruiter refusing to give the […]

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