25 best cities to find a job including Billings, Great Falls and Missoula, Montana

Job seekers with no ties to any particular location often seek jobs in big cities like New York, Chicago, Illinois, Los Angeles, California, or San Francisco, California.

But are these the places where they’re most likely to find a job?

Not according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Job seekers are better off looking in such cities as Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Idaho Falls, Idaho; and Rapid City, South Dakota. All of these cities registered the lowest unemployment rates in July 2008.

Low unemployment rates seem harder to come by in today’s economy. Jobless rates were higher in 338 of the 369 U.S. metropolitan areas surveyed this July, which means 92 percent of cities have seen an increase in their unemployment rates.

By Rachel Zupek

Full Story: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/11/24/cb.best.cities.find.jobs/index.html

(Many thanks to John Masterson of http://www.grupthink.com for passing this along. Russ)