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…when it’s kicked in nuts,” Paul Pickthorne said of his company’s name. “We’re trying to be lean, mean, and fit - just the opposite of overweight, middle-aged Monster.com.”

Paul is the CEO and founder of a new free job board, Smuz.com, coined after a mixture of sounds Pickthorne said he found phonetically pleasing.

“My desire to create a free job board came from not wanting companies to rationalize where and how many job postings they are going to put on these boards, because they only have this much money to spend,” he said. “Because we’re free we eliminate that problem. At the end of the day, all it is is a page of HTML that gets sold for $400.”

Pickthorne said his job board is unique because there’s no catch involved whatsoever. Companies can post as many jobs as they want with no restrictions, recruiters can comb the resume database, and candidates can apply to jobs without being forced to post a resume.

Pickthorne said he is able to make everything free because he gets his money through advertising. But a big drawback is that he isn’t getting the kind of traffic that Monster and Careerbuilder have, so he’s enlisted the help of another service for job seekers, Resume Rabbit, to drive resumes to his site.

Resume Rabbit takes a job seeker’s resume and cover letter and posts it on up to 80 job boards for a one-time fee of $59.95. Resume Rabbit’s Vice President of Business Development Spencer Greenwald said Web sites in the employment space who have trouble getting eyeballs have a hard time turning down RR’s incentive package.

“We are making publishers a lot of money because we have a very aggressive affiliate program where we pay up to 50 percent on a sale,” Greenwald said. “We provide all the tools in terms of banners and content. And anyone who chooses to market Resume Rabbit on their site will get a decent amount of resumes, free of charge, as long as they fit somewhere into our list of categories.”

Greenwald said that since the company’s inception in 2000, they’ve had about 500,000 job seekers pony up for their services. “We’ve had a lot of job seekers that are willing to pay the price for us to do all the work. They not only get their resume posted to these job boards but they also get an online job report, spam filtering, and job matches delivered directly to their inbox. The price is worth the exposure.”

Pickthorne said so far he has about 30,000 jobs posted to his site and around 6,000 resumes in the database. He said since partnering with Resume Rabbit an additional 1,000 resumes are routed to his site each week.