Boston jobs are expected to increase across several industries over the next few months, according to a survey by Manpower Inc., the national staffing agency.

Manpower’s quarterly report found 20 percent of Greater Boston employers expect to increase hiring in the three-month period that begins in April, up from 13 percent in the previous three months, and 12 percent from a year ago. Meanwhile, fewer employers expect to cut jobs in the next quarter - only 7 percent, compared with 13 percent in the previous quarter and 18 percent a year ago.

“Hiring levels in our area appear to be considerably stronger,’’ said Susan Fontana, a Manpower spokeswoman. “Employers are also much more optimistic about hiring activity.’’

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A shakeup at several Massachusetts schools today caused the elimination of several teaching jobs in Boston.

According to state officials, staff at six schools will have to reapply for their jobs and five principals will be replaced after the schools were listed among nearly three dozen statewide that will probably be declared “underperforming’’ and subject to drastic change.

Overall, 12 Boston schools face being listed as underperforming, slightly more than a third of the 35 schools statewide. The list includes the Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester, long considered a barometer of Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s effectiveness in improving the city’s schools over the past 16 years.

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Governor Patrick of Massachusetts recently filed legislation that will help many small businesses create jobs in Boston.

In a nutshell, the legislation will help small businesses hire new workers and reduce the cost of doing business for small businesses.

Recently, leaders in the Massachusetts area have come together to enact measures that will spur on job creation.

Due to these measures, business growth and job creation measures are predicted to create or retain 20,000 jobs, and save small businesses upwards of $400 million.

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Liberty Mutual, a home, life, and auto insurance company, has announced that they will be expanding their headquarters and adding 1,100 new insurance jobs in Boston (click here).

The company known for their endearing commercials about paying it forward planned the expansion with Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.

According to Property-Casualty.com, if local government authority approvals are secured, the project would get a tax break of more than $15 million and bring much-needed jobs to Boston.

The mayor’s announcement said the project will add 600 new full-time positions with the company and the work on a property it purchased will mean 500 construction jobs.

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According to Boston.com, Ames Safety Envelope, a longstanding company in Massachusetts, has been sold, thereby eliminating 150 manufacturing jobs in Boston (click here).

The new owner of Ames Safety Envelope is TAB, a Wisconsin-based records management company with offshoots in Europe, Canada, and Australia.

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With the total number of jobs in Boston diminishing, Massachusetts leaders have banded together to think of ways the state can generate new jobs.

Unemployment in Boston has risen dramatically, creating the need for new and innovative ways to spur on job creation.

According to NECN.com, state Senate President Therese Murray is taking aim at state authorities and public agencies involved in economic development and trade and tourism, pushing to weed the poor ones out or consolidate them into better focused agencies.

“We need to bring some reality back. We started looking at it last March,'’ Murray said in an interview at her State House office Monday, “and found out there are 31 different agencies, ‘quasi’s,’ and authorities that have economic development in their mission.'’

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The Boston unemployment rate increased during July as the city and surrounding area began to lose jobs.

While the majority of the country has been losing jobs since the beginning of the economic recession, Boston was previously one of the few cities that continued adding workers and maintaining a semi-stable unemployment rate. However, the latest data from the United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics found that trend changed two months ago.

During July, the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy area saw its unemployment rate increase from 8.3 percent to 8.4 percent, which is lower than the national unemployment rate of 9.4 percent. This follows an unemployment increase from 7.2 percent to 7.5 percent during May.

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More jobs in Boston (Click here) will soon be created by funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The City of Boston recently announced that it has received $720,000 in federal funding to help clean and redevelop contaminated sites in Dorchester and Roxbury. Of that money, at least $30 million will be used for public housing, and several construction jobs will be created in the process.

Officials say that so far the stimulus has done its part to help save hundreds of jobs and provide the local economy with hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Any unemployed worker in Massachusetts who has ever dreamed of working in Hollywood could soon have a chance to do something similar, as several Boston film jobs could soon be created.

The combination of two proposed studios, tax incentives for in-state productions and a thriving film industry are helping to create more opportunities for local workers who can edit and help with post-production aspects of the film, television and digital media industries. In turn, several local businesses and schools are expanding their facilities and programs to help fill open jobs.

According to an article by The Boston Globe, the Massachusetts Film Office estimates that $452 million were generated from movies filmed in the state during 2008. The popularity of filming in Massachusetts began in 2006, when two films were created in the state, but during 2007 that number increased to eight, and last year 13 movies were made in the state.

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Workers with jobs in Boston (Click here) have been enjoying bigger paychecks during the past year.

The Boston office of the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that total compensation costs for private industry workers in the Boston area increased by 3.5 percent from June 2008 to June of this year. Last year, the Boston metro area, which includes Worcester and Manchester, N.H., experienced an annual gain of 2.5 percent in total compensation costs.

Among the 14 largest metropolitan areas throughout the country, Boston ranked highest in total compensation growth during the 12-month period.

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