How Long Will California’s Job Growth Last? (And Joan Rivers Revisited)
Last Friday’s monthly jobs report through May 2014 showed payroll jobs increasing by 18,300 over the month and 341,000 payroll jobs over the year. In the more than four years since February 2010, California has had steady monthly job gains, which through May have reached 1,327,000 added payroll jobs. How long can the job gains […]
Job Placement Technologies on the March in California
The technologies of job placement continue in 2014 to rapidly evolve. Hundreds of technology entrepreneurs are introducing new products and approaches to knock off firms that have dominated the job placement industry in the past few years, including Monster.com and LinkedIn. One of the new job placement technologies is by Ascendify, a California-based cloud software […]
Perhaps in California’s Share Economy?
At the Share Economy conference in San Francisco earlier this month, speakers from the internet economy companies and their investors touted their new industry, as “creating a new movement”, “shifting human behavior”, a “revolution in how consumers view the world”. Hyperbole? Yes. Over the top? Yes. Failure to consider negative consequences? Yes. But in the […]
“What Does this Mean for the Job Seeker In Glendale?”: Thoughts on Michael Krisman
At all levels of government, a good amount of time is spent on process issues, or the wording of forms, or highly abstract discussions of poverty or unemployment that bear little relation to the poor or unemployed. Michael Krisman, Deputy Director at the Employment Development Department (EDD) in the early 2000s, recognized this and it […]
Can the Long Term Unemployed Find Jobs in California Today?
During the Great Recession the number of long term unemployed in California—defined as those unemployed at least 27 weeks—increased at a significantly more rapid pace than the unemployed overall. In March 2007, prior to the Great Recession, 145,000 Californians were unemployed at least 27 weeks, constituting 16.8% of the unemployed. By March 2010, the long […]
California’s Workforce Professionals and Insights from Unlikely Sources
This morning is the start of the 2014 California Workforce Association (CWA) conference in San Diego. CWA is the leading association of workforce professionals in our state, and a main force for educating and professionalizing our field. Regarding education, we have noted in recent years that workforce professionals can learn much not only from writings […]
Does Where You Go to College Impact Your Job Future in California?
The posting below is a variation of an essay which first appeared in Zocalo Public Square on April 9, 2014 (here), and perhaps a useful antidote to this recent news article on college admissions (here). This month, high school seniors throughout California are receiving college decision notices of acceptance and rejection. They, and their parents, […]
Today’s Job Decisions: There’s a Fine Fine Line
In the musical Avenue Q, Kate Monster (Julie Atherton, below) sings about the “fine fine line” that characterizes many social relationships: between “reality and pretend”, between “you’re wonderful, and goodbye”, and most of all between “love, and a waste of your time.” So in the job market similar fine, fine lines exist in hiring, in […]
California Job Seekers Per Job Opening in 2014
As we note from time to time, the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) provides rich material to understand the current and emerging job world in the United States and California. In the past few years, we have drawn on JOLTS data relating to the enormous number of job […]
Will the Tech Sector Rebuild the Middle Class in California
This past Thursday night, the headquarters of Dropbox at 185 Berry Street in San Francisco was packed for a discussion, “Can Tech Rebuild the Middle Class and the American Dream”. The discussion was hosted by FWD.us, as part of the group’s focus on the technology sector’s impact on employment and the emerging economy. FWD.us is […]