As someone in the US: I would be very happy to refer someone from Eastern Europe if I've worked with them. But no amount of money would make me risk my reputati

As someone in the US: I would be very happy to refer someone from Eastern Europe if I've worked with them. But no amount of money would make me risk my reputation or career vouching for someone I have no experience working with. This is way too close to interview scamming, and it's the kind of thing that could all too easily backfire and cost me my own job & career. Also, about: > I think it all comes back to trust: no one does business with someone on a whole different continent. It's not really that foreigners are less trustworthy or anything like that, but that it can be a huge hassle for US companies (especially small ones) to hire foreign workers. It dramatically complicates HR, labor laws, etc., unless they are all hired as contractors, and even then many smaller companies aren't really set up to handle the paperwork and taxes for that if all their other employees are local. > I am trying to develop a new marketing channel based on trust and referral. If you truly are doing that, I would be comfortable participating in something like LinkedIn where you can vouch for people after you've worked with them. Not before, and certainly not blindly.