Tag
Verification
5 posts
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20 July 2026 · 4 min
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.
20 July 2026 · 2 min
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.
1 June 2026 · 2 min
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.
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18 May 2026 · 2 min
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.
5 May 2026 · 2 min
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.