I imagine a lot of us have stories like this.
When I first started working in London, after a couple of years of renting, in 1992 we bought a 2 bed flat in West Ealing for £77k, I think our joint salaries was around 28k. I seem to recollect the max mortgage was 2.5 * joint and required...
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I am sceptical about AI and can certainly recognise the hype, I was merely pointing out that there seems an investment in it if that floats your boat, not for me though.
IMHO this type of hype has been a plague within IT all my career since 1989, and although I may have ridden the crest...
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Not sure about dead for 3 years as I've been working in banking since 2022 which was my first time (this century) bar some time off last year on my part, but as I say below it helps if you have contacts.
As to AI, it appears here it is being invested in and heavily.
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So what is it about an AI generated CV that makes this happen? Is is the writing style, format.......
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Playing devil's advocate a little... he's good at something by being able to stay on for 11 years, isn't a goal of being in 'business' repeat custom
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