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Are you beautiful enough to get a job? And I don't mean a back-of-the-kitchen job where no one will see you, although an outside-the-kitchen job as a waiter or waitress might be more likely in today's recession with a 9.9% national unemployment rate. The new website BeautifulJobsSeekers.com is...

One of the more radical dot-com startups is 2,500 miles from Silicon Valley. A quiet jobs revolution launched nine months ago in Hawaii called Jobsfreeforall.com. It aims to beat major job boards like Monster.com, CareerBuilder and their $6 billion market by giving away listings.

When I was doing research for a recent post on self-employed people who feel unemployed, I learned about a Web site called TheCanned.com.I have to admit, if I were just laid-off from a job, I would be so there.The site is all about being unemployed, or as Mike Trapenese, one of the founders, told...

A year ago, an old buddy of mine lost his job. I commiserated, but assumed, since he was a computer guy, that he was aware that many companies have abandoned the Sunday newspaper's job listing in favor of online sites. I was wrong; he wasted two months before catching on, two months I could have...