Thinking about it, this means that telling the story publicly is better than telling it privately to the wrong people, because you can get job offers by telling

Thinking about it, this means that telling the story publicly is better than telling it privately to the wrong people, because you can get job offers by telling it publicly, after which you can assume they already saw your blog post and so answering the question will not give them any more information. That is IMO the best solution to this problem for candidates. On the other side, I wonder if the HR process of slotting candidates into fixed number of positions don't help. It might make sense for factory workers, but for programming or even IT? This is one reason BTW why I believe anti-discrimination laws are ineffective.