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EMPLOYMENT SERVICES 

St. Louis City Division
935 Vandeventer Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63108

St. Louis County Division
8960 Jennings Station Road
Jennings, MO 63136

Hollis R. Whiting
Director of Employment 
hwhiting@urbanleague-stl.org
(314) 388-9840

JOB SEEKERS 

Helpful Sites to find employment:

 

Urban League Jobs:

The Urban League’s Employment Services Department provides free job skills training, employment referral and career fairs to local residents. 

The Urban League hosts job fairs that reach over 5,000. The fair promotes jobs from nearly 100 St. Louis area employers and has been sponsored by Emerson, the Regional Business Council, U.S. Bank, Citi, Home State Health Care, the Salvation Army, SLATE and America’s Job Center of St. Louis County.

In addition to jobs, the fair also provides residents with resource and educational seminars, groceries toiletries and recreational activites for youth from 45 social service providers.

Our Services:

  • Employment services include:

  • Interviewing skills

  • Resume preparation

  • Computer access for online job searches and application

  • Job search assistance

  • Career counseling

  • Job readiness training

  • Job referrals

  • Job development

  • Job placement

  • Case management

  • Post-placement follow-up

The Employment Program is designed to:

  • Provide low to moderate-income clients with comprehensive counseling and guidance to enable them to secure full or part-time jobs in the St. Louis metropolitan area

  • Place clients in jobs from laborer to professional.

Why provide Employment services?
​Living wage employment remains a key element of the holistic  approach of helping clients achieve economic self-sufficiency. Finding desirable employment provides a vital “ladder out” for  African Americans and others trapped in poverty. In the St. Louis metropolitan region, the unemployment rate for African Americans is over two times higher than the white community.

Statistics show that the one of the largest barriers to African American  employment is not a lack of job skills, but rather a lack of other skills (interviewing, resume writing, etc.) that are necessary to find desirable full or part-time employment. From its founding in 1918, the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis has concentrated  on ending discrimination, especially in the area of employment.

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The Ready to Work and Residential Leadership Training Programs are financed (in part) (wholly) through an allocation of Community Development Block Grant funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the City of St. Louis’ Community Development Administration.

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