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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. [Read More]

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. [Read More]

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. [Read More]

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. [Read More]