As we head into Labor Day 2012, California is better off in several ways than it was the previous four Labor Days. Payroll job growth has continued steadily over the past year. The most recent monthly jobs report for California covers through July 2012. The state gained over 365,000 payroll jobs in the year between [...]

God gave Noah the rainbow sign No more water, the fire next time African American spiritual, “Mary Don’t You Weep” What is the relevance of an essay on race relations published 50 years ago for today’s California government and society? A few weeks ago in Fox & Hounds, we noted that this August 2012 was [...]

August 2012 will be 47 years since the 5 days of rioting in the Watts section of Los Angeles, that led to 34 deaths, nearly 3500 arrests, and the burning of hundreds of area storefronts and commercial buildings, causing over $40 million in property damage. Most Californians today have no memory or knowledge of the [...]

The job search process continues to rapidly evolve in California. Beyond the internet job boards, the evolving internet networking sites and the uses of social media for employment, crowdsourcing is emerging as a job search technique. Crowdsourcing broadly is the process by which the internet facilitates communities of individuals coming together to address social or [...]

Is the high velocity California job creation/destruction process slowing down? Over the past few years at Fox and Hounds, we’ve discussed the enormous process of job creation/destruction in California, with roughly 250,000-350,000 jobs being created in an average month, and usually around an equal number being destroyed. Recent data suggest, though, that this process might [...]

This is an account of one recent job search in California. Or more. You be the judge. The job seeker is a senior at one of the California State University (CSU) campuses in the Bay Area. He has nearly a 3.0 grade average.  Also, he is a person with autism, with significant cognitive gaps and [...]

These days to get a job in California it takes use of job search boards and social media techniques.  It takes use of networks of business associates and acquaintances. When financially possible, it takes the assistance of a career coach. Most of all, though, it takes a village. Connie Brock is one of our most [...]

AirBnB, Froomz, Getaround, Vayable, and TaskRabbit are part of the growing “Collaborative Consumption” economy in California. It is an economy driven by the internet, technology and the entrepreneurship of young Californians. For California’s workforce community, it is creating new markets and new forms of employment. AirBnB allows individuals to rent apartments and houses/rooms in houses [...]

In just the past five years, California has seen an explosion of internet job boards, internet job training sites, and internet job hunting blogs. The supersite job boards, Monster and CareerBuilder, have been joined by hundreds of smaller boards, as well as by the job aggregators, such as Indeed and SimplyHired. These boards also have [...]

Earlier this month, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) hosted a lunch for its business members  with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. Like all SVLG events, the room was packed, a combination of old line financial services and accounting firms, along with newer alternate energy and technology firms. The gathering was meant to cover a [...]