[jawns]

It sounds, based on the comments here, that both job seekers and employers can sometimes run into a frustrating lack of response (job seekers when they submit an application and never hear back; employers when they try to engage an applicant and never hear back).

I wonder if there might be a business opportunity here.

Suppose there were some way for both job applicants and employers to publicly commit themselves to offering at least a cursory reply (sort of how LinkedIn guarantees a response to each InMail, even if the response is just a boilerplate "Not interested").

If either party fails to respond within some designated timeframe, the penalty could be as simple as publicly noting the fact that they broke their commitment, which is likely to affect their trustworthiness.

This would be advantageous for both parties.

There might even be some decent money-making potential in being such a commitment clearinghouse. For instance, employers who participate might pay to have their jobs listed on the site, with the expectation that a "reply guaranteed" will be an effective way to bring in applicants.

[JSeymourATL]

> I wonder if there might be a business opportunity here.

There's an entire multi-billion dollar industry of executive search and staffing built on this premise.

A commitment clearinghouse would threaten the existing schema of ambiguity. There are always outliers, new information, and change. There in lies the rub.