Perhaps this could be a two way process. Both the employer and employee give $100 to an escrow company, created explicitly for this purpose. If they waste your

Perhaps this could be a two way process. Both the employer and employee give $100 to an escrow company, created explicitly for this purpose. If they waste your time (fake postings, no-one hired, etc) you get the $200 back. If you waste their time (you're bad at what you do), they get the $200. That said, it might be hard to figure out when hiring company has failed the applicant.