Bridgeton-based Trans States Airlines announced this week that it will shed an additional 150 jobs when American Airlines cuts back its flight schedule out of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in April.

The announcement comes on the eve of Feb. 11, the date when 50…

Time again for, what in my opinion, is the best measure of the employment picture –the   Economic Policy Institute formula that calculates the ratio of  job seekers to job openings.

The latest ratio, based on December job figures, is 6:1 — a…

I’ve gotten quite a bit of mileage out of The New York Times essay in which author Neil Hirschfeld detailed the payback directed at the magazine that failed to acknowledge his effort to secure a job.

The response to the original STLJobWatch…

International business analyst and marketer IBISWorld has compiled what it claims to be the jobs with the most growth potential over the next five years.

The list is notably short on so-called “green” jobs and dotted with positions in many of the…

A month after hitting a benchmark last reached 27 years ago, unemployment in the St. Louis metropolitan region decreased slightly in December, dropping to 10.34 percent after the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis adjusted the numbers to account for…

The employment flash out of Washington today (face it, rare is the day recently that there isn’t at least one job-related item emanating from the corridors of power) is an administration projection of near double-digit unemployment extending through 2010.

This is…

In an economy that battered most of Illinois last year, Metro East fared far better than the rest of a state that ended 2009 with an overall unemployment rate of 11 percent.

By year’s end, in fact, Madison, St. Clair and…

A poll released this week by the St. Louis branch of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) reveals that over half of small business owners in the area intend to add payroll in the first three months of this year.

Of the 46…

The FBI has posted an all points bulletin to inform the public it has launched a search for ….3,450 new employees.

In a major national hiring push, the agency hopes to hire 2,550 people to support the efforts of the 900 field…

Among the unemployed, the failure of corporations to acknowledge the receipt of a resume, a cover letter or to give a thumbs up or thumbs down following a job interview is an indignity that ranks right behind the manner in…