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Verification
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What HMRC actually tells an employer, and what it doesn't
UK employers must run right-to-work checks by law, but that's a different check entirely from verifying someone's claimed employment history. Here's what HMRC PAYE records can confirm, and what they can't.
It takes about an hour to build a fake job candidate now
Real-time deepfake tools have gotten good enough that someone with no image-manipulation experience can build a synthetic candidate able to pass a video interview in roughly 70 minutes.
What 'verified' actually means on Dealt
A "verified" badge is only as good as the verification behind it. Here's exactly what we check, how we check it, and what we don't.
How North Korea turned remote IT jobs into a $500 million operation
North Korea runs a documented, ongoing fraud operation that places IT workers in remote roles under false identities, and U.S. prosecutors have already tied it to more than 300 companies.
References are dead. Here's what replaces them.
The reference call as we know it is a polite formality that helps no one. Here's what a useful version of it actually looks like.
The stealth startup problem
Two years at a company you can't name, building something you can't describe. The phrase has a lot of legitimate uses — and a lot of illegitimate ones.
Resume screening is broken. Here's what we're building instead.
We're not optimising the funnel. We're rebuilding what enters it. A short note on why we started Dealt — and the mess we keep tripping over.