I do this in a couple of different businesses, except I pay them for their time. Why is an applicant's time less valuable than an employer's time? I guess becau

I do this in a couple of different businesses, except I pay them for their time. Why is an applicant's time less valuable than an employer's time? I guess because we worship business and labor and money? Or the hiring process innately means that the business has more leverage? I don't know. But I can think of a few ways that an applicant's time is actually more precious and scarce. Often times, if I treat an applicant's time as valuable, they won't waste mine either. Rather than do interviews or tests, I get coffee with them first to suss it out, them bring them in to do the "actual job" I'm hiring for, and pay them $100 for their time. I'm not losing $100 because they did something useful, and I gained knowledge of their ability and work ethic, and they're not out a day's worth of work cause they got paid.