They’ve been hesitant (with good reason) to say so to your face. So, let’s turn to a public opinion poll to speak on behalf of your co-workers.

Here’s the message: If you are suffering from exhaustion, a headache, sore throat, the sniffles…

Friday’s announcement that the national unemployment rate now stands at 9.8 percent (17 percent if the underemployed and displaced workers who have given up a job search are added to the equation) bears out forecasts of a recovery that will see…

Illlinois’ top labor official Thursday expressed cautious optimism at the news that the state’s unemployment rate dropped by four-tenths of a point in August.

It marks the first time in 28 straight months the state has not seen an increase or zero…

Political Fix is reporting that Gov. Jay Nixon has confirmed Deb Peterson’s weekend exclusive by accepting the resignation of Linda Martinez just eight months into her appointment as the director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development.

Martinez embraced a decidedly low profile…

News that unemployment rate has hit a level unseen since 1983, 9.7 percent, is not the best way to begin a holiday weekend ostensibly set aside to recognize the contributions of working Americans.

Were that not depressing enough, the Economic Policy Institute heralded…

Score another for networking and brace yourself for a throw down of job fairs.

Challenger, Gray and Christmas, the Chicago-based outplacement services firm, asked human resources professionals to rank the most effective means of landing a job on a scale of one…

From the print edition of STLJobWatch, published Friday, August 14:

The last time Kevin Faron worked full time, he traveled to China, helped shape multimillion-dollar marketing strategies and made decisions befitting the MBA he earned from the Olin Business School at Washington University.

Today?

“Basically,…

From the print edition of STLJobWatch, published in Friday’s Post-Dispatch:

As these things go, the “Putting America Back to Work” job fair Wednesday at the Heart of St. Charles Banquet Center was fairly low-key.
Unlike many fairs I’ve attended recently, this one didn’t have…

Just in time for the weekend, some news guaranteed to raise a big crocodile tear in the ducts of furloughed or laid off workers wondering if they can afford the gas for a trip  to the Zoo this summer:

According to a Robert Half…

Missouri’s unemployment rate rose again in May, erasing the statewide employment gain in April that many hoped was a signal of iminent economic recovery.

The state Department of Economic Development laid the bulk of the increase in the May jobless numbers, from 8.1 percent…