Were I to pay for this kind of service I'd want to know who's looking at me (not just how many times). Are the hiring companies vetted in any way? There has t

Were I to pay for this kind of service I'd want to know who's looking at me (not just how many times). Are the hiring companies vetted in any way? There has to be more balance in the model. Employers can look at you and see how your peers (or actually, anyone with an account) rate you. Hiring companies should be similarly exposed. As I understood it, we provide the content, we pay for the service, maybe we get job offers from companies that don't suck. Who's getting the most value from this arrangement. (let me state for the record that I really, really like SO. I'm just iffy about this careers business model) It would be good to offer the service free to the unemployed (if that could even be verified). It's terrible practice to charge people for access to a job if they need the money for food. Maybe a more fair arrangement would be to offer the service free after X number of comments or questions contributed. That way, even if you don't get a job out of it, there's a direct relationship between what you contribute to SO and what you get (aside from all the free knowledge).