I sympathize but totally disagree, if the $1 I paid guarantees:
A) it is an actual job, with intent to hire now B) I will get an actual response, from a human, within a few days
Then $100 is completely worth the time saved vs applying to ghost jobs.
A) it is an actual job, with intent to hire now B) I will get an actual response, from a human, within a few days
Then $100 is completely worth the time saved vs applying to ghost jobs.
The asymmetry in power & wealth means that if you want the $1 spent by a job-seeker to even come close to the guarantees you describe, you'll probably need to make the company pay $100 per posting or more. And that would effectively require some pretty widespread and strictly-enforced regulation/legislation.
If you're going to have to get that just for this middleman solution, why not go all the way and have the regulation mandate that any job that a company posts has to be real, with full intent to hire, and every single applicant must get a timely, non-canned response?