The St. Louis Cardinals are excited to announce the 4th Annual Cardinals Career Fair will be held at Busch Stadium on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 12p.m.

Organizations who have signed up to attend this year include: the St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Blues, Fox Sports Net Midwest, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Country Financial, U.S. Bank, GKN Aerospace, Gateway Grizzles, Cash’s Scrap Metal & Iron, Laclede Gas Company, U.S. Cellular and Coca-Cola Enterprises.

What a flashy list that at most will either net you a crap internship or working for Cash in his scrap metal shop. Bring gloves.

But how do I get in there? Is it free? No. You have to spend $20…but you get a free ticket to a Cardinals game.  Or, as we choose to look at it: You have to buy a Cardinals ticket to get in.

A $20.00 registration fee includes admittance to the career fair and one (1) ticket to the St. Louis Cardinals vs. Arizona Diamondbacks game that afternoon at 1:15 p.m.

Any other benefits? Sure you might see Andy Benes walking around as I believe he sold his soul to Bill DeWitt and they just use him for crap like this (Why else would he be killing rain delays with Fredbird?). Also though you get a chance to work with a company that is a complete and total shitpile and easily fires more people than they hire! Hello? Opportunity? …I think I recognize your knock!

The attendees will also have the opportunity to take part in Radio Resumes this year. Radio Resumes will be presented by ClearChannel Radio during the Career Fair.

Wow awesome! Well I guess if you look at it like “No one forces more people to a career fair every year than ClearChannel!” that might make this seem cool for a second until they either get that slogan or start working the midday shift on The Bull, just waiting out the time until you’re replaced by one of those Steven Hawking voice machines wearing a cowboy hat.

via St. Louis Cardinals (and our sexy tipster that we’re shocked had time to email us with all the crazy sex we hear they have)

After a year filled with layoffs, more layoffs and finally laying off that guy that everyone thought was totally going to be the first one to get canned but somehow making it until the third round, the GM plant in Wentzville, MO rolled out the 2 Millionth “full sized van” yesterday marking another time in history that no one will care about ever.

At about 3:30 p.m., the 2 millionth full size van rolled off the assembly line here at the GM plant.

It is being considered quite an accomplishment, considering that GM laid off about half of its workforce earlier this year. Mayor Paul Lambi and members of the Wentzville Chamber of Commerce were on site to mark the occasion.

Soon that van, like shown above, will be out doing one of the many jobs vans like this do in our society like being adorned with poorly thought out logos for plumbers, storing recently picked up kids for future pedophile-type activities, or carting your giant fertilizer bombs around.  A proud day indeed.

via KSDK

According to a new report on the St. Louis economy, we won’t return to the pre-recession job availability level until 2014.

The region will have lost 64,700 jobs, or 4.7 percent of its pre-recession total, by the time the local economy turns around in five years, according to a forecast released Monday by IHS Global Insight.

“While most areas will begin increasing employment again in 2010, it will be tepid, with only 118 metros crossing the 1,000-job mark next year,” IHS said. “Solid gains will not return for the majority of the country until 2011.”

So that sucks.  You know us though!  Always with the silver lining!  Check out this awesome shiz:

Detroit, Cleveland, Providence, R.I., Milwaukee and Hartford, Conn., will take until after 2015 to recover,

Pfffffttttt.  We’ll beat Detroit back by a whole year!  God you suck Detroit.

What does this mean for our city?  Well 2014 is 5 years off from now, so as we see it thats a whole class of high school girls that are going to graduate, find no jobs and have to start stripping.  [Editor's Note: Hell no they aren't going to college.  Not with the St. Louis public school system!]  So while jobs will still be down, and least other things will be going up!

Man we are awesome at finding silver linings!

via St. Louis Business Journal

One of the many job posting websites, Indeed.com, has compiled and posted a list of the top 50 cities based on the ratio of jobs to unemployed people.

We came in at #40.

Detroit was #50.  …which makes another win for the Lou against D-Town!

According to the site, St. Louis is rocking a ratio of one job opening to every six unemployed people.  For comparison sake, the #1 city was Washington D.C. with the exact opposite ratio of six job postings for every one unemployed little orange guy.  Detroit came in dead last with only one job posting for a whopping 18 unemployed people!

If these numbers continue, by next hockey season we’ll be seeing octopi being tossed on the ice at Capitol’s games with all the transplanted Detroit workers out in D.C.

See the whole list here.