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An idea, perhaps you remember the idea of charging a small amount for each email you sent to prevent spammers. Perhaps that same idea could applied to job appl
by shinryuu 7y ago
An idea, perhaps you remember the idea of charging a small amount for each email you sent to prevent spammers.
Perhaps that same idea could applied to job applications. For a firm that believes that they get too many applications they would introduce a cost to sending an application.
Conversely, there would be a cost introduced if a firm wanted to headhunt an applicant.
Whether this would work in practice I don't know though :)
- kpandit 7y agoThanks Shinryuu. I see the point in imposing a cost to avoid spam but I am afraid the real good candidates wouldn't even bother applying if they were asked for a payment before their application could be moved forward. There is some obvious spam that could be weeded out easily with a bit of tech e.g. geo-fencing applications and perhaps there are other ways too. Similarly I wouldn't want to get in the way of a company that wants to reach out to a willing applicant. In fact putting two interested parties together is the very motivation for this project. Making it expensive for a candidate to apply or for a company to get in touch with the candidate may not necessarily improve things. In such a system the bad actors with money will thrive and i am afraid that doesn't improve the status quo in a meaningful way.