{"id":4506,"date":"2026-08-27T14:52:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elisadesimone.com\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2026-10-08T16:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:07:54","slug":"cost-of-looking-for-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisadesimone.com\/fr\/cost-of-looking-for-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Combien co\u00fbte la recherche d&#039;un emploi ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-71dd9ed1 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-left-color:#6B5B95;border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:6px;background-color:#F6F8FB;padding-top:64px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:56px;padding-left:24px\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-inter-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#6B5B95;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:12px;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.12em;text-transform:uppercase\">WORK \u00b7 EMPLOYMENT \u00b7 DIGITAL ECONOMY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-playfair-display-font-family\" style=\"color:#1F3A5F;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:20px;font-size:clamp(27.894px, 1.743rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 2.285), 48px);font-style:normal;font-weight:600;line-height:1.08\">How Much Does It Cost to Look for a Job? The Business Growing Around Unemployment<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-inter-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1E293B;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:clamp(14.082px, 0.88rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.786), 21px);line-height:1.55\">Job hunting is supposed to help people earn money. Increasingly, it requires them to spend money first, on infrastructure, visibility, information, automation and access.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-border-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-178a29a2 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-color:#C5D0F5;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;border-radius:14px;background-color:#F6F8FB;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:28px;padding-top:26px;padding-right:26px;padding-bottom:26px;padding-left:26px\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-playfair-display-font-family\" style=\"color:#1F3A5F;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:8px;font-size:clamp(15.747px, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.938), 24px);font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Dans cet article<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"color:#1E293B;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.227), 16px);line-height:1.7\" class=\"wp-block-list has-text-color has-inter-font-family\">\n<li><a href=\"#business-of-desperation\">The business of desperation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#public-paradox\">The public version of the same paradox<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#cost-after-hiring\">And then you finally get the job<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#reliable-business-model\">Why desperation remains a reliable business model<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-46600967 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:40px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:18px;padding-left:24px\">\n<p class=\"has-text-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">Looking for work is supposed to be what you do when you need money.<br>Increasingly, it costs money.<br><br>That contradiction is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore, so I decided to look at the numbers more closely and calculate what participating seriously in today&#8217;s job market can actually cost.<br><br>I started with some of the infrastructure I already use professionally. I pay \u20ac25 a month for internet access: \u20ac200 from January to August 2026 alone. I have a professional website, which means domain and hosting costs, plus, I&#8217;m giving a one-year chance to TranslatePress Personal to make it accessible to an international audience.<br><br>Then, on 13 August 2026, I paid \u20ac15.74 to try JobCopilot, an AI-powered job-search service.<br>Partly out of curiosity. Partly because we are constantly told that job searching is also a numbers game: the more opportunities you find, the more applications you send, the more chances you supposedly have of eventually getting a positive response.<br>At some point, the logic begins to sound suspiciously like gambling.<br><br>&#8220;One more application. One more attempt. One more pull of the lever. This one might be the one.&#8221;<br><br>I am not suggesting that job-search platforms are literally gambling products. But the psychological logic of repeated attempts under uncertainty is difficult not to notice, particularly when automation now allows people to dramatically increase the number of applications they send.<br><br>And, naturally, you can pay for that too. Just upgrade your subscription.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-85cd92c6 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:10px;border-left-color:#6B5B95;border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:4px;background-color:#F6F8FB;margin-top:26px;margin-bottom:28px;padding-top:22px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:22px;padding-left:24px\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-playfair-display-font-family\" style=\"color:#1F3A5F;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:8px;font-size:clamp(15.747px, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.938), 24px);font-style:normal;font-weight:600;line-height:1.25\">The visible part of the bill<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"color:#1E293B;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:8px;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.341), 17px);line-height:1.7\" class=\"wp-block-list has-text-color has-inter-font-family\">\n<li><strong>Internet access:<\/strong> \u20ac25 a month, or \u20ac200 from January to August 2026.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Professional website:<\/strong> domain, hosting and translation software.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>JobCopilot trial:<\/strong> \u20ac15.74 paid on 13 August 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-inter-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1E293B;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);line-height:1.75\">Then there are the services I did not pay for, but tried. LinkedIn Premium gave me a free trial. In my experience, it produced no concrete result. What it did give me was a useful view of the emerging architecture of job seeking: the basic market may be accessible for free, but information, visibility, messaging, insights and supposed competitive advantages increasingly sit behind paid tiers.<br><br>This is where the subject becomes more interesting than my own experiment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-53edb385 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:26px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:28px;padding-left:24px\">\n<h2 id=\"business-of-desperation\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-playfair-display-font-family\" style=\"color:#1F3A5F;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:14px;font-size:clamp(21.027px, 1.314rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 1.474), 34px);font-style:normal;font-weight:600;line-height:1.2\">The business of desperation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-inter-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1E293B;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:18px;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);line-height:1.75\">There is nothing inherently unethical about charging for a useful service. Software costs money to build. Career consultants deserve to be paid. Platforms have operating costs. Training has value.<br>The ethical problem begins somewhere else: when economic insecurity itself becomes a customer-acquisition funnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-inter-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1E293B;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:16px;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);line-height:1.75\">You need a job because you need an income. Then an entire secondary market appears around improving your chances of accessing that income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;color:#1E293B;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:28px;padding-left:28px;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);line-height:1.75\" class=\"wp-block-list has-text-color has-inter-font-family\">\n<li>Pay to train for work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pay to build the profile required to be considered for work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pay to search more efficiently.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pay to contact people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pay to become more visible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pay to automate applications.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pay to discover whether your CV can survive the automated systems employers use to reject it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-left-color:#C5D0F5;border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:4px;margin-top:32px;margin-bottom:32px;padding-left:24px\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-playfair-display-font-family has-h-4-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1E293B;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:1.45\">The ethical problem begins when economic insecurity itself becomes a customer-acquisition funnel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-inter-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1E293B;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);line-height:1.75\">You can refuse to pay, of course. You can search manually, learn independently, rewrite every CV yourself, research every company, optimise every profile, translate every page and send every application one by one.<br>Then you pay in time.<br>And the time of an unemployed person is curiously treated as if it has no economic value.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-53edb385 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:26px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:28px;padding-left:24px\">\n<h2 id=\"public-paradox\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-playfair-display-font-family\" style=\"color:#1F3A5F;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:14px;font-size:clamp(21.027px, 1.314rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 1.474), 34px);font-style:normal;font-weight:600;line-height:1.2\">The public version of the same paradox<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-inter-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1E293B;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:18px;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);line-height:1.75\">There is also a publicly funded infrastructure built around employability: employment centres, assessments, training programmes, tutors, accredited providers and active labour-market policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-border-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-cb998770 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-color:#C5D0F5;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;border-radius:12px;background-color:#F6F8FB;margin-top:22px;margin-bottom:26px;padding-top:24px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:24px;padding-left:24px\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-inter-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#6B5B95;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:8px;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.1em;text-transform:uppercase\">GOL PROGRAMME \u00b7 30 JUNE 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-playfair-display-font-family\" style=\"color:#1F3A5F;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:8px;font-size:clamp(18.959px, 1.185rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 1.255), 30px);font-style:normal;font-weight:600;line-height:1.2\">4,306,879 participants \u00b7 1,056,403 people trained<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-inter-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1E293B;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.227), 16px);line-height:1.65\">On 23 July 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavoro.gov.it\/stampa-e-media\/comunicati\/pagine\/programma-gol-raggiunti-oltre-43-milioni-di-persone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Italy\u2019s Ministry of Labour announced<\/a> that the GOL programme had reached 4,306,879 participants by 30 June 2026 and trained 1,056,403 people, exceeding its PNRR targets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-inter-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1E293B;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:18px;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);line-height:1.75\">Those are impressive activity numbers.<br>But activity and outcome are not the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-inter-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1E293B;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);line-height:1.75\">How many people found work because of the programme? How quickly? In what sectors? With what contracts? At what salaries? For how long? Was the job consistent with their skills, or merely sufficient to move them into the statistical category of \u201cemployed\u201d?<br>Those questions lead directly to another problem: the way we communicate employment itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-53edb385 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:26px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:28px;padding-left:24px\">\n<h2 id=\"cost-after-hiring\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-playfair-display-font-family\" style=\"color:#1F3A5F;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:14px;font-size:clamp(21.027px, 1.314rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 1.474), 34px);font-style:normal;font-weight:600;line-height:1.2\">And then you finally get the job<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-inter-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1E293B;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:18px;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);line-height:1.75\">The absurdity does not end when the search does.<br>Once employed, many workers pay to commute, park, eat away from home, maintain a car, buy appropriate clothing or relocate closer to work. The salary is supposed to compensate for labour, yet part of that salary can immediately disappear into the costs required to make the labour possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-inter-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1E293B;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);line-height:1.75\">We have somehow constructed a loop in which people pay to train for work, pay to search for work and then pay to go to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-left-color:#C5D0F5;border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:4px;margin-top:32px;margin-bottom:32px;padding-left:24px\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-playfair-display-font-family has-h-4-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1E293B;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:1.45\">We have somehow constructed a loop in which people pay to train for work, pay to search for work and then pay to go to work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-inter-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1E293B;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);line-height:1.75\">The obvious temptation is to give this phenomenon an ideological label. When I raised the issue publicly, several people called it \u201clate-stage capitalism\u201d.<br>Perhaps that describes one expression of it.<br>I am increasingly interested in the mechanism underneath.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"reliable-business-model\" class=\"wp-block-group has-background-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-0a095846 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:16px;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:32px;padding-top:42px;padding-right:32px;padding-bottom:42px;padding-left:32px\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-title-blue-color has-text-color has-playfair-display-font-family\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:12px;font-size:clamp(20px, 1.25rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 1.364), 32px);font-style:normal;font-weight:600;line-height:1.2\">Why desperation remains a reliable business model<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The obvious temptation is to give this phenomenon an ideological label. When I raised the issue publicly in a post on LinkedIn, several people called it \u201clate-stage capitalism\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps that describes one expression of it. I am more interested in the mechanism underneath: <strong>how did we reach a point where economic insecurity itself became such a reliable business model?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will always be someone willing to sell a solution to a person who needs one. The more revealing question is what happens when an entire ecosystem begins to grow around that need and how much that ecosystem benefits from the need continuing to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-left-color:var(--wp--preset--color--border-historic);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:4px\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How did we reach a point where economic insecurity itself became such a reliable business model?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8ca7b304 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:20px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:28px;padding-left:24px\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-playfair-display-font-family\" style=\"color:#1F3A5F;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:clamp(16.834px, 1.052rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 1.042), 26px);font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Source<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"color:#475569;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.114), 15px);line-height:1.65\" class=\"wp-block-list has-text-color has-inter-font-family\">\n<li>Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavoro.gov.it\/stampa-e-media\/comunicati\/pagine\/programma-gol-raggiunti-oltre-43-milioni-di-persone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cProgramma GOL: raggiunti oltre 4,3 milioni di persone\u201d<\/a>, 23 July 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-d17cdbab wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:16px;background-color:#1F3A5F;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:48px;padding-top:44px;padding-right:32px;padding-bottom:44px;padding-left:32px\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color has-playfair-display-font-family\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:12px;font-size:clamp(20px, 1.25rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 1.364), 32px);font-style:normal;font-weight:600;line-height:1.2\">Work, communication and reputation are systems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-inter-font-family has-background-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:22px;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);line-height:1.7\">Understanding how they shape choices is the first step towards changing them. Explore my work or get in touch if you want to continue the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-23cb70a3 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background has-border-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elisadesimone.com\/en\/\" style=\"border-color:#FFFFFF;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;border-radius:12px;color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#1F3A5F;padding-top:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-left:24px\">Explorez mon travail<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background has-border-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elisadesimone.com\/en\/contacts\/\" style=\"border-color:#FFFFFF;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;border-radius:12px;color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#6B5B95;padding-top:12px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:12px;padding-left:24px\">Contactez-moi<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for work increasingly costs money. 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