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[Croesus]

Since, in the current market, my cv is highly tweaked for each role I've applied for, I simply create a folder in My Documents and name it after the jobserve(or whatever) reference and dump my tweaked cv in there.

That's it.

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+1 for NASA. They were very easy to deal with, especially salary sacrifice arrangements etc.

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No, it was the Armed Forces recruitment portal. It was an absolute disaster and when it went live they were having to do things by pen and paper.

There were hundreds of devs there across several teams and absolutely no code reuse.

For the record, I was only there 3 months...

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Finally finished Atlas Shrugged (recommended) and now on Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell. This isnthe factual account as opposed to one of the Sharpe novels.

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I experienced it happen one time, though not at a bank.

It was on a project for Capita - they'd sourced the bulk of the team from India to implement a Lo Code solution and after 6 months it was such a mess that they got rid of everyone and hired UK based contractors, including myself, to...

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Keeeping the bean counters and shareholders happy, as ever. Pure short termism.

But do you think we will ever again see the cycle of when things become such a rotten mess that they need to call in some proper contractor talent to fix it?...

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Yes, I couldn't agree more. What's wrong with an an old style Nokia if they need to keep in touch? Answering my own question, I guess the genie is well and truly out of the bottle.

I'm also not sure how this crackdown is going to work - presumably a VPN will circumvent these restrictions?...

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It was always said that it would pick up once interest rates had started going down.

Not much hope of that anytime soon somfar as I can see....

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Off for a week's skiing. Yep, really.

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A stay on the Queen Mary must be like, as the author says, stepping back in time. Would love to visit.

I wonder if they enforce dress codes? I once stayed on Burgh Island & they did a 20s style dinner and dance where you had to dress up in 1920s fashion.

Was eye wateringly...

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Just finished Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.

I wonder how many blokes read that and think - that's me.

Anyway back to Atlas Shrugged. Nearly there but the John Galt speech, all 60 pages of it, I'm finding hard work.