Job Market

For the first time since 1990, the St. Louis region is among the nation’s top 10 metro areas for job growth. Employment in the 14-county region that includes the Metro East has risen 2.16% this year — surpassing the national rate of 1.7%.

Foster youth are more likely to be unemployed, food insecure or homeless. They're the focus of an EPA grant program with a specific goal of training a workforce capable of cleaning up polluted brownfield sites — unused, polluted plots of land.

Black Males in Education St. Louis founders created EduOpenings, a platform to connect job seekers to education opportunities and employers in Missouri.

Scenes of college students and job recruiters crowding into huge rooms have become another tradition the coronavirus pandemic has moved onto a virtual space.

In a job market characterized by furloughs, layoffs and rescinded internship and job offers, this spring’s university graduates face challenges beyond…

Moonlighting, freelancing, working a second job, picking up a side hustle – all of these terms and cobbled-together career strategies have become common…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 4, 2013 - The topic was career transitions on this Tuesday morning in a conference room in…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 9, 2011 -This past fall, as her graduation from Saint Louis University loomed, Claire Bira…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 18, 2010 - After nearly 20 years as a research scientist in St. Louis, Gina Jerome is out of the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 16, 2010 - Six months after a "wave" of 600 laid-off research scientists began exiting the St.…