Author: Michael Bernick

Popular culture can teach us much about jobs and employment. Novels, movies and even television shows yield insights into how people approach employment at a

Earlier this month, our former California finance director, Mike Genest, drew my attention to a striking feature of the national  job numbers, largely ignored by

Just as  other education websites on the internet are rapidly evolving, there is rapid evolution in job training websites. In her position as director of

Near the end of A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean’s novella of a family in Montana in the early part of the twentieth century,

Every three to four years since the 1970s, the same ritual has been enacted in the Bay Area between BART and its unions. Negotiations for

“Waiter and Waitress Nation” is the title of a recent  posting by American Enterprise Institute economist James Pethokoukis.  Of the 175,000 net payroll jobs added

Increasingly in 2013, new companies are coming forward with technology solutions for improved job sorting and placement. These technology solutions differ from the thousands of

(A version of this article first appeared last week in Zocalo Public Square as “Five Ways to Get a Job in California”). We’ve reached a

Mad Men is one of the few television programs, outside of the work-based reality programs, that takes employment and business seriously. Many of the storylines