2026-02-11 / CBS新闻
求职却难以获得面试机会？金钱或许能帮上忙。
一些求职者正花钱聘请招聘人员帮助自己获得面试机会，这种做法被称为“反向招聘”，即中介机构充当求职者的代理或媒人。
总部位于纽约的高管教练莉兹·本特利（Liz Bentley）表示，由于人工智能和其他技术的出现，求职者很容易向雇主大量投递简历，即便是顶级候选人也不得不更加努力才能脱颖而出。
“大学毕业生很难找到工作。顶尖商学院的MBA毕业生也找不到工作。我们看到白领被裁员，雇主也暂停了招聘，”她告诉CBS新闻，“即使有人失业，岗位也不一定会填补。”
“当公司付钱给招聘人员时，是因为人才稀缺，”本特利补充道，“当求职者付钱给他们时，是因为工作岗位稀缺。”
费用是多少？
反向招聘机构（Reverse Recruiting Agency）创始人亚历克斯·申卡罗夫斯基（Alex Shinkarovsky）表示，其公司服务的需求激增。部分原因是求职过程耗时过长。根据最新的联邦劳工数据，在美国，平均找到一份新工作需要超过24周，而一年前这一数字是22周。
申卡罗夫斯基告诉CBS新闻，他可以将这个时间缩短近一半——他的客户通常在12.5周内就能收到工作录用通知。“我们的核心目标是让客户获得面试机会，”他告诉CBS新闻。
但这需要高昂的成本。反向招聘机构向求职者收取每月1500美元的费用，同时保证他们在三个月内至少获得9次面试机会。如果客户接受了一份工作，该公司还会从新员工的年薪中收取10%的佣金，并退还首月的1500美元费用。
例如，一个年薪10万美元的人，总共需要支付1.3万美元——其中包括1万美元的佣金和3000美元的月费。
不过，对那些收入较高的员工来说，这笔钱可能比六个月的失业期更具吸引力。另一家反向招聘公司Ambitious Exec的联合创始人兼首席执行官詹姆斯·惠特克（James Whittaker）表示，在线申请工作的求职者获得面试的几率只有1%到2%。
这在一定程度上是由于公司收到的申请数量庞大，尤其是在人工智能工具让人们更容易批量申请工作的情况下。
“如今申请工作太容易了，优秀的候选人很容易在竞争的海洋中被淹没，”他告诉CBS新闻，并补充说反向招聘服务对担任高级职位的人来说最有意义。
是否存在不公平优势？
个人招聘顾问公司（My Personal Recruiter）创始人兼首席执行官亚当·芬伯格（Adam Fineberg）表示，他的公司每月收费在900美元到2500美元之间。但他说，这项服务通常可以将求职范围缩小约50%，并帮助客户在两到三个月内找到工作。
本特利表示，反向招聘模式的一个潜在缺点是，那些无法负担这种帮助的求职者可能会处于不利地位。
“这可能会在求职过程中引入更多的不平等，”她说，“能负担得起这项服务的求职者比负担不起的人更有优势。”
一些职业服务专家也从原则上反对这种做法，质疑反向招聘服务的价值。
“你永远不应该为了找工作而付钱给任何人，”职业顾问、Mastor招聘与咨询公司（Mastor Recruiting and Consulting）创始人詹妮弗·马斯特（Jennifer Mastor）告诉CBS新闻。
编辑：阿兰·舍特（Alain Sherter）
Some job-seekers are paying thousands of dollars just to land an interview
2026-02-11 / CBS News
Looking for work but struggling to land a job interview? Money might help.
Some job seekers are paying recruiters to help get a foot in the door, a practice known as “reverse recruitment” in which agencies act as agents or matchmakers for people seeking employment.
Liz Bentley, a New York-based executive coach, said even top-tier candidates are having to work harder to stand out as AI and other technologies make it easy for job candidates to bombard employers with their credentials.
“College graduates are having a hard time getting jobs. MBAs from top schools aren’t getting jobs. We are seeing white-collar layoffs, and employers are pausing hiring,” she told CBS News. “Even when jobs are lost, they are not necessarily filling them.”
“When companies pay recruiters, it’s because talent is scarce,” Bentley added. “When candidates pay them, it’s because jobs are scarce.”
How much does it cost?
Alex Shinkarovsky, the founder of Reverse Recruiting Agency, said demand for his firm’s services has surged. That’s in part because of how long it can take to navigate the job-search process. It takes an average of more than 24 weeks to find a new job in the U.S., according to the latest federal labor data, up from the 22 weeks a year ago.
Shinkarovsky said he can cut that timeframe nearly in half — his clients typically receive a job offer within 12.5 weeks, he told CBS News. “Our north star metric is to get clients interviews,” he told CBS News.
That comes at a hefty cost. Reverse Recruiting Agency charges job seekers $1,500 per month, while guaranteeing them a minimum of nine job interviews in three months. If a client accepts a job, the firm also collects a 10% commission on the new hire’s annual salary and refunds the first month’s $1,500 fee.
For example, someone who landed a job with an annual income of $100,000 would pay a total of $13,000 — that encompasses a $10,000 commission and $3,000 in monthly fees.
Still, the math can be more attractive than six months of unemployment, especially for employees commanding higher salaries. James Whittaker, co-founder and CEO of another reverse recruiting firm, Ambitious Exec, said a candidate applying for a job online has only a 1% to 2% change of getting an interview.
That’s in part due to the sheer volume of applications companies receive, especially as AI tools make it easier for people to mass apply for jobs.
“It is so easy to apply to a job these days that good candidates are getting lost in the sea of competition,” he told CBS News, adding that reverse recruiting services make the most sense for people in senior-level roles.
An unfair edge?
Adam Fineberg, founder and CEO of My Personal Recruiter, said his firm charges between $900 and $2,500 a month. But the service can typically winnow a job search by roughly 50% and help clients land a position within two or three months, he said.
A potential downside to the reverse-recruitment model? Job candidates who can’t afford to spring for this kind of help could find themselves at a disadvantage, Bentley said.
“It could introduce more inequality to the job search process,” she said. “Candidates who can afford the service have a leg up on those who cannot.”
Some career services pros also oppose the practice on principle, questioning the value of reverse recruitment services.
“You should never pay anyone to get you a job,” career consultant Jennifer Mastor, founder of Mastor Recruiting and Consulting, told CBS News.
Edited by Alain Sherter
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