The idea is to cut on people who shouldn’t be sending out resumes to this job posting. It’s the same with public healthcare. A lot of older people go to the doctor to talk to someone. All because it’s “free”. The consequences being huge queues to any doctor you might want to visit. But placing a tiny fee like a dollar, automatically makes people stop and think - do I really need to go there to talk about something that has been diagnosed 50 times by now? All the stuff you talk about can be dealt with by new laws - mandating accurate pay rates that cannot be larger than a 10% difference between max and min for instance. You could force employers to state if the position is open to internal hiring too. Hell, it could even be a deposit instead of a fee - so you don’t shotgun 100 job postings by not even looking at what they expect just submitting CVs.
At the end of the day, there’s potential for abuse everywhere. You can curb it in some places and can’t do anything in others. But just because something doesn’t solve all the problems, doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea.
The idea is to cut on people who shouldn’t be sending out resumes to this job posting. It’s the same with public healthcare. A lot of older people go to the doctor to talk to someone. All because it’s “free”. The consequences being huge queues to any doctor you might want to visit. But placing a tiny fee like a dollar, automatically makes people stop and think - do I really need to go there to talk about something that has been diagnosed 50 times by now? All the stuff you talk about can be dealt with by new laws - mandating accurate pay rates that cannot be larger than a 10% difference between max and min for instance. You could force employers to state if the position is open to internal hiring too. Hell, it could even be a deposit instead of a fee - so you don’t shotgun 100 job postings by not even looking at what they expect just submitting CVs.
At the end of the day, there’s potential for abuse everywhere. You can curb it in some places and can’t do anything in others. But just because something doesn’t solve all the problems, doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea.