CVs that parse with no employment, no education, and unknown name are
likely scanned images or corrupted files. Instead of completing with
score 100 (misleading), fail with a clear error message.
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Sequential roles at the same company (promotions, transfers) should not
be flagged as suspicious overlaps. Only flag overlaps between different
companies.
- Add IsSameCompany() check before flagging overlaps
- Normalize company names to handle variations like "BMW" vs "BMW UK"
- Remove common suffixes (Ltd, PLC, Group, etc.) for comparison
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- Move file size inline after filename
- Add container border around entire file list
- Add alternating row backgrounds for better delineation
- Use border-bottom between items instead of margin
- Reduce icon size for tighter layout
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- Create dedicated AuthLayout for login/register pages without navbar
- Tighten file list spacing on Check page for better density
- Reduce padding, margins, and icon sizes in file list items
- Make file names smaller and truncate long names
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- Reduce table cell padding for more compact rows
- Smaller status badges and icons
- Reduced margins and gaps throughout
- More CVs visible without scrolling
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Major improvements to company name matching accuracy:
- Add well-known brands dictionary with correct Companies House numbers
for fast-track verification (Boots, Legal & General, EY, etc.)
- Add safe expansion words (UK, LIMITED, GROUP, PLC) that don't change
company identity
- Fix core word validation to require original company's core words
- Remove overly aggressive skip words that removed meaningful identifiers
(industries, technology, consulting, services, etc.)
- Add industry context hints for AI matching
- Fix CVBatchTester JSON deserialization for test files
Before: 98% verified but with false positives like:
- Boots → BOOTS AND BEARDS (wrong)
- Legal & General → LEGAL LIMITED (wrong)
After: 97% verified with correct matches:
- Boots → BOOTS UK LIMITED (correct)
- Legal & General → fast-tracked to correct company
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Uses Claude Haiku to intelligently detect when a company name contains
multiple companies (e.g., "ASDA/WALMART", "Corus & Laura Ashley Hotels")
vs single companies with similar patterns (e.g., "Ernst & Young").
- Adds ExtractCompanyNamesAsync to ICompanyNameMatcherService
- Only triggers for names with potential separators (/, &, "and")
- Verifies each extracted part individually, returns first match
- Uses fast Haiku model to minimize cost
Results:
- ASDA/WALMART → verified via 'ASDA' → ASDA GROUP LIMITED
- Corus & Laura Ashley Hotels → verified via 'Corus' → Tata Steel UK
- Employers: 104/120 verified (86%)
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- Sort AI candidates by fuzzy match score before taking top 10
This fixes Royal Bank of Scotland matching (was getting arbitrary
candidates from Dictionary, now gets most relevant)
- Add historical employer recognition (Foster Wheeler, Glaxo, etc.)
- Add public sector employer recognition (NHS, councils, etc.)
- Add charity/non-profit recognition
- Add company division pattern recognition
- Improve AI matcher prompt with explicit examples
- Add partial company number matching for truncated AI responses
- Lower AI confidence threshold to 30% (fuzzy validation as backup)
- Add whole-word boundary matching for subsidiary indicators
Fixes "SCOTLAND" incorrectly matching "land" pattern
- Add 100+ historical polytechnic → university name mappings
- Add post-1992 universities and Welsh institutions
Results: Employer verification improved from 71% to 85%
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GDPR Compliance:
- Delete CV files immediately after processing
- Add DataRetentionJob to auto-purge data after 30 days
- Add DeleteAllUserDataAsync for right to erasure
- Add Privacy Policy page with GDPR information
- Add privacy link and GDPR badge to footer
UI/UX Improvements:
- Add "Why Choose RealCV" benefits section to homepage
- Fix pricing page: Professional card highlight, consistent button styles
- Improve text contrast on dark backgrounds (0.75 → 0.85 opacity)
- Fix auth page messaging consistency
- Fix CSS --realcv-accent variable (was self-referencing)
UK Terminology:
- Change "hiring" to "recruitment" throughout
- Change "bad hires" to "poor appointments"
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- Remove markdown and txt documentation files
- Update PdfReportService.cs with RealCV branding
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- Add CIPD, CIMA, ACCA, ICAEW, ICAS, CII, CIPS, CMI as recognized professional bodies
- Add 40+ university name variations (e.g., "Hull University" → "University of Hull")
- Add automatic "X University" ↔ "University of X" pattern transformation
- Improves education verification accuracy for common CV name formats
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- Add notable Further Education colleges to recognised institutions
(Loughborough College, Hartpury College, etc.)
- Improve compound name matching to handle separators (/, &, -, ,)
so "Loughborough College/Motorsport UK Academy" now matches
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- Add Education Verification section to report UI showing institution
verification status, qualifications, and dates
- Add differentiated icons for Information flags (career, timeline,
management, education types)
- Change potentially defamatory language to neutral terms:
- "Diploma Mill" → "Not Accredited"
- "Suspicious" → "Unrecognised"
- Flag descriptions now recommend manual verification rather than
making definitive claims about institution legitimacy
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- Rename all TrueCV references to RealCV across the codebase
- Add new transparent RealCV logo
- Switch from JetBrains Mono to Inter font for better number clarity
- Update solution, project files, and namespaces
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Change text-warning from bright yellow (#ffc107) to darker amber (#b45309)
for WCAG AA compliant 4.8:1 contrast ratio on white backgrounds.
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- Increase font sizes from 11px to 12px for employment headers and notes
- Improve color contrast (gray-500 to gray-600) for WCAG AA compliance
- Increase opacity for white text on dark backgrounds (0.6/0.8 to 0.8/0.9)
- Fix duplicate company penalty display to only apply for sequential entries
- Non-sequential entries of same company now each show their own penalty
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ProcessCVCheckJob:
- Recognize "contract", "contract work", "contract role" as freelance
- Add "various", "various clients" for multiple short-term contracts
- Prevents false matching of contract work to dissolved companies
Report.razor:
- Fix stat blocks centering (icon, number, label now centered)
- Fix employment table column alignment with fixed widths
- Add inline styles to header for consistent centering
- Improve GetPointsForCompany to show -10 for unverified companies
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- Add universal cursor inherit rule for consistent cursor behavior
- Add user-select: none to prevent text selection on UI elements
- Expand element coverage to include modals, tooltips, and inline elements
- Preserve text cursor and selection for form inputs with !important
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- deploy.sh: Publish and deploy from dev machine
- server-setup.sh: One-time Ubuntu server setup (Nginx, Docker, SQL Server)
- README.md: Deployment documentation and troubleshooting guide
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Replace hero section PNG logo with clean SVG document illustration
- Add comprehensive cursor styling to prevent text cursor on non-editable elements
- Cover all SVG elements, Bootstrap components, and custom classes
- Ensure checkboxes and interactive elements have pointer cursor
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- Add CandidateName property to VeracityReport and display on report page
- Simplify employment verification layout with compact row-based design
- Add UK employment history notice to Home and Check pages
- Improve hero section text readability with text shadow
- Update Login and Register page styling
- Remove Companies House references from UI text
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- Move admin credentials from hardcoded values to configuration
- Add rate limiting (5/min) to login endpoint for brute force protection
- Extract CleanJsonResponse to shared JsonResponseHelper class
- Add DateHelpers.MonthsBetween utility and consolidate date calculations
- Update PdfReportService to use ScoreThresholds constants
- Remove 5 unused shared components (EmploymentTable, FlagsList, etc.)
- Clean up unused CSS from MainLayout.razor.css
- Create IPdfReportService interface for better testability
- Add authentication requirement to Hangfire dashboard in development
- Seal EducationVerifierService class
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- Add checkbox column with Select All in header
- Show selection count badge and Delete Selected button
- Enhanced confirmation modal for bulk operations
- Row highlighting for selected items
- Fixed button spacing (gap between View and Delete)
- Scrollable list in modal for many selected items
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Add "partnership" detection to charity/voluntary check (excluding LLPs).
Most UK "X Partnership" organisations are registered charities or CICs,
e.g., North Halifax Partnership Limited (charity 1169746).
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- Update flag assertions to filter by specific flag types
(job now creates additional informational flags)
- Update overlap tests: now "Concurrent Employment" with Info severity
- Update overlap score tests: no penalty for overlaps
(legitimate for part-time, consulting, job transitions)
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- Enhance text contrast (darker grey #2d2b27)
- Soften footer with warmer dark (#3a3833)
- Use warmer primary blue (#3d5a80)
- Add subtle background gradient for depth
- Strengthen table header styling
- Increase logo size to 95px for better visibility
- Fix AI matcher to handle acronyms in parentheses (e.g., NHP)
- Improve matching rules for CIC/LLP legal suffixes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace bright white backgrounds with warmer off-white tones to reduce
eye strain while maintaining good contrast and professional appearance.
Changes:
- Update CSS variables with warmer neutral palette (#f5f3f0 page bg,
#faf9f7 surfaces, #f0ede8 muted sections)
- Soften primary blue from #2563eb to #3b6fd4
- Update navbar, cards, tables to use new surface colours
- Update upload area, file lists, and icon backgrounds
- Update flag item backgrounds with softer tints
- Update shared components (VeracityScoreCard, FlagsList)
The new colour scheme uses warm off-white/cream tones that are easier
on the eyes than pure white while maintaining professionalism.
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Replace fuzzy string matching with semantic AI matching to fix false
positives where similar-sounding but different companies were matched
(e.g., "Families First CiC" incorrectly matching "FAMILIES AGAINST
CONFORMITY LTD").
Changes:
- Add ICompanyNameMatcherService interface and AICompanyNameMatcherService
implementation using Claude Sonnet 4 for semantic company name comparison
- Add SemanticMatchResult and related models for AI match results
- Update CompanyVerifierService to use AI matching with fuzzy fallback
- Add detection for public sector employers, charities, and self-employed
entries that cannot be verified via Companies House
- Update tests to work with new AI matcher integration
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- Red ring for low/zero scores
- Amber ring for medium scores
- Green ring for high scores
- Background ring now visible and coloured appropriately
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- Add explicit circumference calculation for clarity
- Apply rotate(-90deg) to start progress from 12 o'clock
- Add transform-origin: center for consistent rotation
- Clean up duplicate CSS rules
- Fix mobile responsive styles for score-roundel
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- Change header background to neutral blue gradient
- Add score roundel with coloured ring based on score
- Ring colour indicates score level (green/amber/red)
- Keeps header consistent regardless of score
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Filter out empty, "Unknown", and "Unknown Institution" values
from generating verification flags since there's nothing to verify.
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- Remove score rating labels (Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor, Very Poor)
- Display "TrueCV Score" instead of rating text
- Remove Rating column from batch PDF report
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- Add custom CSS design system with brand colours and variables
- Enhance Report page with SVG score ring and improved flag styling
- Improve Dashboard with better table design and score badges
- Enhance Check page upload area with animated icon and file styling
- Update spellings to UK English (analysing, recognised)
- Add user-select: none to prevent text cursor on clickable elements
- All date formats already use UK-friendly dd MMM yyyy format
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When the institution name is empty, "Unknown", or "Unknown Institution",
don't show the "not found in UK database" message since it's not useful.
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Informational flags are context-only and don't affect the score,
so displaying "0 pts" was redundant and confusing.
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The SIC code mismatch check was flagging tech roles at companies not
registered as technology businesses. This is not a reliable measure
since many companies employ tech staff regardless of their SIC code.
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New info flags (no penalty - provide context):
- Career Span: Total years of experience with label (Early Career to Extensive)
- Current Status: Currently employed at X / Available since Y
- Long Tenure: Highlight 5+ year roles positively
- Management Experience: X of Y roles with management titles
- Individual Contributor: When no management titles detected
- Company Size Pattern: Startup/SME/Corporate experience breakdown
- Career Trajectory: Upward/Lateral/Step-down progression analysis
- PLC Experience: Roles at publicly listed companies
- Director Experience: Director/officer roles without red flags
All flags have ScoreImpact = 0 (informational only)
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- Add CheckFrequentJobChanges() to detect short tenure patterns
- Flag when 3+ employers have <18 month tenure (no penalty, info only)
- Group multiple roles at same company/group together
- Calculate and display average tenure across all employers
- Add NormalizeCompanyForGrouping() to handle company name variations
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- Add GenerateSingleReport() method to PdfReportService for individual CV reports
- PDF includes: score header, employment verification table, timeline analysis,
gaps/overlaps sections, and color-coded flags (critical/warning/info)
- Update Report.razor to use PdfReportService instead of JSON serialization
- Add TrueCV.Web.Services to _Imports.razor
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When matching brand names like "ASDA", prefer the main employer company
(ASDA STORES LIMITED) over subsidiaries (ASDA DELIVERY LIMITED).
- Add SubsidiaryIndicators set (delivery, distribution, holdings, property, etc.)
- Add MainCompanyIndicators set (stores, retail, manufacturing, etc.)
- Add CalculateCompanyPriorityScore() method for ranking matches
- Sort matches by priority score first, then by fuzzy score
- Subsidiaries get -10 priority unless explicitly searched for
- Main trading companies get +5 priority, PLCs get +3
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- Add NonEmploymentEntityPatterns dictionary with 10 categories of non-employer entities
(clubs, associations, trusts, charities, investment, property, religious, sports, educational, professional)
- Expand SkipWords from ~30 to 120+ words for better core identifier extraction
- Add GetSearchEntityTypes() and IsValidEmploymentEntity() helper methods
- Refactor FindBestMatch() to use pattern-based filtering instead of hardcoded checks
- Fix UI showing duplicate points for same company appearing multiple times
(now only shows points on first occurrence, subsequent rows show 0)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
