You're not paying to get a job, you're paying to have your CV seen by employers, which is a heck of a lot less :-) Having a small barrier to listing a CV ensur

You're not paying to get a job, you're paying to have your CV seen by employers, which is a heck of a lot less :-) Having a small barrier to listing a CV ensures that most CVs in the system represent people who are genuinely interested in finding a job and actually have the confidence that they are moderately qualified. If you've ever been on the employer side, and looked at the resumes you get when you put an open job listing on a high traffic site like monster.com, you get enormous piles of junk, people that are completely unqualified. Our theory is that having 5 qualified candidates is better than having, say, 10 qualified candidates in a pile of 300, both for the employer AND for the employee who would rather be in the smaller pile. In any case, $29 is a tiny amount. You'll spend a lot more than that on the haircut you get the day before your interview.