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Every job has one Apply now button. Some adverts are applied for here, and some on another website.

When an employer posts with us, you apply here: attach a CV, add an optional message, and send. The recruiter who posted the job reviews applications directly. We do not screen, shortlist or reject anyone on their behalf.

With an account, your application appears in My applications and its status updates as the recruiter works: submitted becomes viewed when they open it, and they can mark it shortlisted, rejected, and so on. We only ever show a status a recruiter actually set, so an unchanged status means nothing has changed.

Part of the board comes from employers’ own hiring systems (Greenhouse, Lever and similar), and some adverts are applied for on another UK job site. On those adverts, Apply now opens that website in a new tab and you apply there. We do not pass anything about you to it.

Some adverts do not name the employer, so we show no employer on them and never guess one. Applications made on another website do not appear in your TechnoJobs dashboard, and we cannot show their status because it is not shared with us.

CVs are stored privately. There is no public CV page, and no employer can browse your CV just because you uploaded it. A recruiter sees your CV in exactly two cases: you applied to their job, or you switched on CV search visibility.

CV search is opt-in and off by default. If you turn it on, recruiters searching the CV database see an anonymised preview first. Your contact details and CV file are only revealed to a company that spends a paid credit to unlock you. Turn it off any time in your dashboard.

When you upload a CV we parse it to suggest profile details. You review and confirm them; nothing is applied to your profile automatically. Retention is published and automated: a profile CV is deleted after 5 years of account inactivity, application data is anonymised 90 days after an application is rejected or its job closes, and a CV uploaded without an account is deleted within 24 hours unless its application was actually sent. The full table lives in the privacy policy.

Job alerts are not open yet, because we cannot send email from the site today. When they open they will be double opt-in, with a one-click unsubscribe in every email.

Create an employer account, buy a job credit (or a pack), and use the post-a-job wizard. Adverts save as drafts until you publish, and publishing spends one job credit. Contract roles state their pay basis and IR35 status as structured fields. That is deliberate, and contractors filter on it.

A published advert runs for 30 days and can be closed early or published again from your jobs console. Adverts are moderated; one that breaks the rules can be taken down, with the reason shown in your jobs console.

Prices live on the pricing page: one source, no surprises at checkout beyond VAT, which is added there. The mechanics:

• Job credits do not expire. One credit publishes one advert for 30 days.
• Featured upgrades promote one advert for 30 days; an unused featured credit expires 12 months after purchase.
• CV credits expire 12 months after purchase. Credits are consumed oldest first.

Your live balances, orders and VAT receipts are on the billing page. Refunds are covered by the refund policy.

Searching the CV database is free to run: you see anonymised candidate previews (skills, experience, rates; no names, no contact details). Revealing a candidate costs one CV credit and shows their contact details and CV. An unlock is permanent for your company: viewing the same candidate again is free, and a failed unlock is never charged.

Only candidates who explicitly opted in to CV search appear, which is also why the database is smaller than the number of people who have ever uploaded a CV.

Both are self-service and immediate: no email to write, no waiting for an operator. In your dashboard’s privacy panel you can download everything we hold about you (a machine-readable export, ready in seconds) or erase your account, which signs you out everywhere and removes your profile, CVs and alerts.

A record that an application happened is anonymised rather than instantly destroyed where the law requires us to keep it briefly. The schedule for that is published in the privacy policy.