Dating website moonlights as a recruiting tool

BeautifulPeople.com promises to help pretty up the corporate sector by finding attractive job candidates for interested companies. Ugly people need not apply, apparently.

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Apparently, there’s a dating website called BeautifulPeople.com, and it’s launched a recruitment tool for employers who want to hire only good-looking people.

When you visit the site, you’re greeted with what looks like a stock image of a presumably beautiful person and the message, “An attractive face is always a great first impression for any business.”

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It continues, “With unemployment at record levels in North America …”

OK, BeautifulPeople, let me stop you right there. Perhaps you’ve been watching too much cable-TV propaganda, because the record-high unemployment level in the United States happened in November 1982. So, surely this isn’t about altruism and finding suitable jobs for the downtrodden hotties out there.

So, what did the brains behind this venture have to say about it? From Mashable:

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