The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word REFERENCE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result REFERENCE
- Sports official not totally nice, not one to gettestimonial
- Address about to be given border with neighbour? Engineers brought in
- Character that directs one elsewhere
- Mention of soldiers about to break barricade
- Testimonial provided as priority, but first page is lost
- Mention about a receiver of stolen goods without hesitation
- Allusion to “taste for decapitation”?
- Testimonial for a source
- An allusion to one’s character and ability?
- Testimonial from first choice beginning to be ignored
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The straight part
We know that "Jobseeker might need/this" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case jobseeker might need/this = reference.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does REFERENCE mean?
REFERENCE noun- A relationship or relation (to something).
- A measurement one can compare to.
- Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
- A person who provides this information; a referee.
- A reference work.
- That which serves as a reference work.
- The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
- A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
- (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
- (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
- An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
- (character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.
- Appeal.
- To provide a list of references for (a text).
- To refer to, to use as a reference.
- To mention, to cite.
- To contain the value that is a memory address of some value stored in memory.