Presumably because we want to get hired by that place and what the hiring manager thinks affects our chances of being hired.
You can buy valuable things like good health care, living wages, balanced lives, and self respect for employees, fair deals and support for improved lives for customers, a healthier market environment for the planet and future generations. You can buy being the person to make the better world you imagine and make it sustainable to perpetuate that.
These are all for sale and good business practices to boot.