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)
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- Require ALL core identifier words to be present in match
(e.g., "Lloyds Bowmaker" needs both "LLOYDS" and "BOWMAKER")
- Filter out club/association/society type entities
(prevents "BMW" -> "BMW CAR CLUB LIMITED")
- Filter out benefit/trust/pension type entities
(prevents "BMW Group" -> "BMW GROUP BENEFIT TRUST LIMITED")
- Core word extraction now returns all significant words, not just first
Fixes false matches like:
- "BMW Group Canada" -> "CANADA LIFE GROUP" (missing BMW)
- "Bank of Scotland" -> "BANK AND CLIENTS PLC" (missing Scotland)
- "Lloyds Bowmaker" -> "LLOYDS ALARMS" (missing Bowmaker)
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When a company appears multiple times in employment history (e.g.,
multiple roles at same company), penalties are now applied only once
per unique company, not per employment entry.
- Unverified company: -10 pts once per company (not per role)
- Company flags (incorporation date, etc.): once per (company, flag type)
Description now shows "(X roles)" when multiple instances exist.
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For company names like "UNILEVER BESTFOOD", now also tries searching
for just the first word ("UNILEVER") as it may be the registered
parent company name. Adds PLC/Limited variations for major corps.
Skips common prefixes like "The", "UK", "British", etc.
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Ensures fresh API lookups each time the app starts, avoiding stale
cached results that may have been stored before matching improvements.
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Company Matching:
- Extract parent company from "Brand (Parent Company)" format
- Handle slash-separated names like "ASDA/WALMART"
- Match against both original name and search query for flexibility
- Add PLC/Plc case variations
Report UI:
- Remove separate Score Breakdown section
- Add Points column to Employment Verification table
- Calculate points per company from matching flags
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The previous search only tried a single query which often returned newer
companies with similar names. Now generates all combinations of name
variations (UK/U.K. + Ltd/Limited) to find the correct company.
For "Mattel UK Ltd", now searches:
- Mattel UK Ltd
- Mattel U.K. Ltd
- Mattel UK Limited
- Mattel U.K. Limited (finds MATTEL U.K. LIMITED from 1980)
- Plus core name variations
This ensures companies like "MATTEL U.K. LIMITED" (incorporated 1980)
are found instead of incorrectly matching "UK MATTEL LTD" (2025).
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When searching Companies House, now generates multiple query variations
to find companies registered with different naming conventions (e.g.,
"U.K." vs "UK", "Limited" vs "Ltd"). This helps match older companies
like "MATTEL U.K. LIMITED" when CVs list "Mattel UK Ltd".
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When no company in search results existed at the claimed employment
start date, return no match instead of falling back to wrong company.
This prevents matching "UK MATTEL LTD" (2025) when the CV claims
employment in 2006-2013 and the real "MATTEL U.K. LIMITED" (1980)
isn't in the search results.
Result: Company shows as "Unverified" instead of wrongly verified
with multiple "Employment Before Company Existed" flags.
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- Cache lookup now validates company existed at claimed start date
- If cached company was incorporated after employment date, search for alternatives
- Fixes matching wrong company when cached data points to newer company
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
File upload fix:
- Buffer file data immediately on selection to prevent stale IBrowserFile references
- Add BufferedFile record to hold file data in memory
- Add loading indicator while files are being buffered
- Fixes "Cannot read properties of null (reading '_blazorFilesById')" error
Company matching improvement:
- Prefer companies that existed at the claimed employment start date
- Fixes matching wrong company when newer company has similar name
- Example: "UK MATTEL LTD" (2025) vs "MATTEL U.K. LIMITED" (1980)
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- Rename "Employment Overlap" to "Concurrent Employment"
- Remove score penalty for overlaps (often legitimate: part-time, consulting, transitions)
- Change severity from Warning/Critical to Info
- Update scoring explanation to note overlaps are not penalised
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- Add Score Breakdown section showing how score is calculated
- Convert variable-style flag names to readable titles (e.g. UnverifiedDirectorClaim -> Unverified Director Claim)
- Deduplicate flags in report display for existing reports
- Make verification notes more user-friendly
- Add "How Scoring Works" explanation panel
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- Add audit logging system for tracking CV uploads, processing, deletion,
report views, and PDF exports for billing/reference purposes
- Add processing stage display on dashboard instead of generic "Processing"
- Add delete button for CV checks on dashboard
- Fix duplicate primary key error in CompanyCache (race condition)
- Fix DbContext concurrency in Dashboard (concurrent delete/load operations)
- Fix ProcessCVCheckJob to handle deleted records gracefully
- Fix duplicate flags in verification report by deduplicating on Title+Description
- Remove internal cache notes from verification results
- Add EF migrations for ProcessingStage and AuditLog table
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- Add dashboard auto-refresh polling to update when processing completes
- Skip verification for freelance employers (but not contractors)
- Add incorporation date check (flags employment before company existed)
- Add dissolution date check (flags employment at dissolved companies)
- Add dormant company check (flags non-director roles at dormant companies)
- Add company size vs role check (flags senior roles at micro-entities)
- Add SIC code mismatch check (flags tech roles at non-tech companies)
- Add director verification against Companies House officers
- Add rapid career progression detection (3+ seniority jumps in <2 years)
- Add early career senior role detection (<2 years after education)
- Extend CompanyVerificationResult with flags and company data
- Add officers endpoint to Companies House client
- Fix null reference warning in Report.razor
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- Add QuestPDF library for professional PDF generation
- Create PdfReportService with formatted table layout
- Export includes score (color-coded), verified employers, gaps, and flags
- Report has header, footer with page numbers, and alternating row colors
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- Allow recruiters to upload multiple CVs at once with batch processing
- Add auto-refresh polling on Report page during CV processing
- Add CSV export button on Dashboard for completed check summaries
- Update logo and reset to Bootstrap default styling
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add logo to navbar, home hero, login and register pages
- Update color scheme to match logo blue (#2B5F9E)
- Add CSS variables for consistent brand colors
- Improve card hover transitions with shadow effects
- Add responsive content padding
- Add focus-visible states for accessibility
- Add active state styling for navigation links
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Use IDbContextFactory pattern to create isolated DbContext instances
for each cache operation, making parallel verification thread-safe.
Changes:
- Add IDbContextFactory<ApplicationDbContext> registration
- Update CompanyVerifierService to use factory for cache operations
- Update tests with InMemoryDatabaseRoot for shared test data
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Features:
- Add UK institution recognition (170+ universities)
- Add diploma mill detection (100+ blacklisted institutions)
- Add education verification service with date plausibility checks
- Add local file storage option (no Azure required)
- Add default admin user seeding on startup
- Enhance Serilog logging with file output
Security fixes:
- Fix path traversal vulnerability in LocalFileStorageService
- Fix open redirect in login endpoint (use LocalRedirect)
- Fix password validation message (12 chars, not 6)
- Fix login to use HTTP POST endpoint (avoid Blazor cookie issues)
Code improvements:
- Add CancellationToken propagation to CV parser
- Add shared helpers (JsonDefaults, DateHelpers, ScoreThresholds)
- Add IUserContextService for user ID extraction
- Parallelized company verification in ProcessCVCheckJob
- Add 28 unit tests for education verification
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Docker configuration:
- Dockerfile: Multi-stage build with non-root user, health checks
- Dockerfile.migrations: Runs EF Core migrations on startup
- docker-compose.yml: Full stack with SQL Server, Azurite, app
- .dockerignore: Optimized build context
- .env.example: Template for API keys
Application changes:
- Added /health endpoint with EF Core database check
- Conditional HTTPS redirect (disabled in containers)
- DOTNET_RUNNING_IN_CONTAINER environment detection
Usage:
cp .env.example .env # Add your API keys
docker-compose up -d # Start all services
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Creates database schema for:
- ASP.NET Core Identity (users, roles, claims, tokens)
- ApplicationUser with Plan, StripeCustomerId, ChecksUsedThisMonth
- CVChecks with status tracking and indexes
- CVFlags for verification flags
- CompanyCache for Companies House API caching
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clean architecture solution with:
- Domain: Entities (User, CVCheck, CVFlag, CompanyCache) and Enums
- Application: Service interfaces, DTOs, and models
- Infrastructure: EF Core, Identity, Hangfire, external API clients, services
- Web: Blazor Server UI with pages and components
Features:
- CV upload and parsing (PDF/DOCX) using Claude API
- Employment verification against Companies House API
- Timeline analysis for gaps and overlaps
- Veracity scoring algorithm
- Background job processing with Hangfire
- Azure Blob Storage for file storage
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