Why paid interviews are the future

Supposedly, there's a "shortage of tech workers"

Not true.

And yet in the face of the supply and demand problem, people (hiring managers, tech leads, recruiters) cannot or will not read resumes. Perhaps this contributes to the "shortage" of tech workers.

I postulate the primary reason for this faux ignorance is that given the mobile state of tech workers (due to outsourcing, startup failures et al) that it is assumed that all resumes are lies.

Well if you assume all resumes are lies and you don't know how to ask questions you have a serious "shortage" of tech workers.

But its not a shortage of workers. Its a denial of the existing workers who want to be paid versus paying 20/hr for a mcDonalds++ engineer.

I have 16 years of experience in the top language working on top high visibility projects and yesterday in a tech interview I was asked, "Whats a list?"

I have fixed bugs in the JVM, made significant modifications to Hibernate. And yet Im asked in every interview, "Do you know Hibernate?", even though statistically speaking they will never see a candidate with those skills cross their desk ever again.

So Ive decided if all resumes are lies, then I will charge people to interview me. And I think we all should. After all if someone wont read your resume but calls you into an interview, and then still doesnt believe your resume, they just wasted your precious time.

The folks that dont charge for interviews will still be plentiful. Not speaking english, no verifiable work history, resumes that dont form sentences, and no predictable outcome of their work.

Charge for interviews at your rate.