With limited openings in so many industries in the current economic climate and a fear of redundancy which is palatable, it’s all too easy to obsess over any details which may have an effect on your employment. Not just employment history and education concerns either apparently; one American medical spa feels your age could be a factor. Especially if you look old.

That’s right, if you think companies discriminate against your years in the interview process, Florida’s Tribeca Medaesthetics is offering an essay contest with a prize of up to $3,000 in free cosmetic work .. Participants need to explain their unemployment circumstances and why they need treatments like Botox, lipolysis, and waxing to become more competitive in the job place.

Targeting job seekers in just their 30s and older, the top 20 unemployment explanations win.

Personally, I think it is a pretty despicable way of getting some advertising and preys on vulnerable and desperate people. What do you think… creative or crass?