You want the unemployed to pay? Or do you want the employers to pay? If you want the employers to pay, how do you attract enough attractive unemployed to your site?
Well I guess we have a possible reason why LI is still relevant.
This suggest then that the relevance of any solution would need to appease the employers... yet here we are trying to build/design something for employees first.
Right, the website being annoying doesn't really matter compared to the network quality.
One thing I've considered, what if there were a site where you could rep trusted people anonymously? Then employers (or buyers etc) can see if there's some path from themselves to the candidate, at least to know they aren't some total rando who could be a scammer. The thing is, it's hard to obfuscate the reps if you're answering those queries, and it all falls apart once someone can prove that they gave or received rep.
I really like the anonymous angle. Suspending the unspoken reality of bias and profiling by employers, the point of job postings is to fill a skill void, I think. The idea of embellishing the recommendations seems like it would require some sort of validation of the recommendation giver...so yeah, eventually there needs to be some verifiabilty.
There is one piece of non-anonymity, you know who you're repping. The system only cares if there's a path from you to the target, so there will never be a path from you to a bot unless a real person you indirectly know reps a bot. 1000 bots can rep each other and nobody will care.
