Not only does this disincentivize HR from running fake vacancies or stringing multiple candidates on just to keep their options open, but it also solves the problem of unemployed people job-searching effectively working full-time for free. The fact that companies would have to pay to hire workers would mean they try to make the selection as short and effective as possible.
I am not opposing but there is a big risk here.
Essentially there are 2 customers,
The company wants a worker, but the worker a company.
In a current hiring process if your not a fit for the company well thats end of story… but not with a centralised third system who is hiring for many different companies where they can hire you for another company instead were you are a better fit.
Sounds good on paper for now but.
The government needs you to work to pay taxes. The job of the government worker is to make sure the open positions are filled. Neither requires you or the employer to be long term happy with the deal.
Over time they will drown in crap positions that are technically legit employment but that no one actually wants and the government will get pressured to fill those positions.
So when you walk in, and you don’t instantaneously manage to sell yourself as one of the prime few worthy of the actual decent jobs everyone wants, they will try to push you in all the shitty ones till you stop coming back.
Then there is also you can’t really ban someone from employing someone directly.
This is a good point but it already happens with the current system.