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It's not you, it's the city. If you're struggling on the job-search front, perhaps it's time to go look at greener pastures — in cities with better job prospects.

Of course, moving for a job has its pitfalls; you're taking a big risk if you don't have a job lined up in the city before you move. But maybe the smarter strategy to take is to start looking for jobs in the cities with good job growth, if you haven't been already.

Ready to get started on job hunting in a new area? Lucky for you, Forbes compiled a list of top cities for good jobs from analyzing data like job growth and unemployment rate in 100 metropolitan cities. Here are the winners:

1. Dallas, TX: The five-year job growth rate is 2.8 percent. It added thousands of jobs last year and continues to add jobs to the financial services, energy, and health care sectors.
2. Houston, TX: The five-year job growth rate is 2.6 percent, and Houston continues to grow as America's energy capital.
3. Austin, TX: The five-year job growth rate is 3.2 percent, and jobs are expected to be added in the tech industry, government, education, and construction.
4. Fort Worth, TX: The five-year job growth rate is 2.6 percent. There are a lot of job prospects with defense contractors and energy companies.
5. Seattle, WA: The five-year job growth rate is 1.9 percent. Tech wages are expected to grow as well as the education industry. Boeing continues to be a strong employer.
6. San Antonio, TX: The five-year job growth rate is 2.6 percent. There are a lot of gains seen in energy, construction, and the leisure and hospitality sectors.
7. Oklahoma City, OK: The five-year job growth rate is 1.7 percent. There's a lot of job growth seen in financial services, hospitality, transportation, and utilities.
8. Denver, CO: The five-year job growth rate is 2.1 percent. The financial services, hospitality, and education industries seem to be rebounding.
9. San Francisco, CA: The five-year job growth rate is 1.9 percent. This is the perfect city for you if you're looking for a job in the informational technology or professional services industry.
10. Salt Lake City, UT: The five-year job growth rate is 1.9 percent. The city is expected to add 60,000 jobs by 2020.

Spanx is a word that most women are familiar with. It's a type of shapewear that helps to smooth away lumps and bumps and also leaves no trace of a panty line. The creator of this product, Sara Blakely, has been inducted to this year's Forbes billionaires list, which was released yesterday. Spanx, an international undergarment company, is worth an estimated $1 billion. Here are a couple of interesting facts about her from a Forbes feature:

• She learned how to write her own patent from reading a Barnes and Noble book and she saved $3,000 in legal costs.
• She worked at Disney World for three months and spent eight-hour days buckling customers into a ride.
• She's the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world.
• She has never spent money on advertising.
• She owns 100 percent of the company.
• She went from just having $5,000 in savings when she was 29 to owning a billion-dollar company at the age of 41 today.
• She has her eccentric moments, and her husband describes her as "50 percent Lucille Ball, 50 percent Einstein." Some of her goofiest moments include wearing a boot on one foot and a Christian Louboutin heel on the other in Bloomingdale's, and wearing stretchable candy necklaces and bracelets (bought from a nearby candy store) to the Screen Actors Guild Awards because she left her jewelry at the hotel.
• She witnessed a car run over her best friend when she was only 16, and facing mortality at such a young age has driven her. "I think that when you witness death at age 16, there's a sense of urgency about life," Blakely says. "The thought of my mortality — I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up."

Forbes's list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women has been released, and we're excited to see quite a few techies in the group.

Forbes selects candidates within six categories: billionaires, business, lifestyle (including entertainment and fashion), media, nonprofits, and politics. From those categories, each person is ranked upon three metrics: "dollars, a traditional and social media component, and power base points."

Nine women with technology connections made the prestigious list. Find out who they are and their rankings below.

• 5. Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook — According to Forbes, Sheryl has helped to grow active Facebook users to represent 11 percent of the world's total population. She is also an outspoken advocate of empowering women in the workforce.
• 6. Melinda Gates, cofounder and cochair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — A computer scientist in her own right, Melinda Gates now focuses on the foundation named after her and husband. In the last year alone, the organization gave away $2.4 billion in global charitable contributions with an emphasis on immunizations.
• 16. Susan Wojcicki, SVP of Advertising, Google — Dubbed "the most important Googler you've never heard of," Susan was the one to rent her legendary Palo Alto garage to the Google founders. She currently oversees AdWords and mobile advertising products and is responsible for bringing in 96 percent of the company's total revenue.
• 20. Cher Wang, cofounder and chair, HTC; VIA Technologies — As cofounder of Taiwan-based HTC, Cher has grown the company to be the maker of more than out of every five smartphones.
• 37. Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo! — As CEO of the Internet search engine, Carol has made Yahoo! into a leading digital media group with an audience reach over 700 million.

The remaining four most powerful women with a tech focus after the break.

The web has been buzzing about the recently released The World's Billionaires list by Forbes, and this made me think about if the data really matters to us since our lives are so far removed from people who have a net worth of more than 10 figures. Further, the list isn't totally accurate — there are apparently a lot of billionaires that didn't even make it to the list, because there are a number of people who keep their money in privately owned assets.

On the plus side, it's also great to have data and records, because it creates a culture of transparency. And as a bonus for the billionaires, Bill Gates once said that the Forbes list is a nice Rolodex to use when he's knocking on doors, trying to convince the other uber rich to be more philanthropic. It's also interesting to see who the most successful people in the other countries are, and it's a good indicator of how fast a country is developing. Case in point: China doubled its number of billionaires this year.

However, one of the main drawbacks is that the list almost seems like a public display of flaunting for the rich. The US economy is still recovering, and people are still feeling the bite of the recession. Perhaps a better list would be a list of billionaires who are doing the most for their country. This will send a message to people that although becoming extremely successful is something to be proud of; using that money to create visible social impact for society is even better.

Bill Gates was the richest man in the world for 17 years before dropping to second place in 2010 and this year, but he would have received the top spot if it weren't for his charitable donations. According to Reuters, Gates would have actually had $88 billion (topping Carlos Slim's $74 billion) if he didn't give so much money to his philanthropic causes. Thanks to his wealthy support, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest in the US.

What do you think of the Forbes billionaires list — should we have a list of billionaires who are doing the most good rather than a who's who of the richest people in the world?