That's Just Mean!

Yet another way to take advantage of job seekers' desperation: offer to send their resume to the top of employer searches for a fee (with the darkly implied corollary of sending resumes to the bottom if job seekers don't pay the extortion...uh, fee). Saw this kind of thing on a bunch of career posting sites:

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