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2025
- HuffPost-AI Is Taking Over the Hiring Process – And It’s Weirdly Futuristic
- NBC Bay Area-Consumer sentiment tumbles close to record lows in latest U Michigan survey
- White House Chronicle-Help for job seekers in a jobs slump
- Quartz-Is ‘learn to craft’ the new ‘learn to code?’
- NBC Bay Area-Using AI instead of humans
- NBC Bay Area-San Jose students worry as AI transforms the job market
- HR Dive-BLS will not be releasing jobs numbers. So who has the answers?
- East Bay Express-Training for tomorrow: Preparing for AI in the workplace
- NBC Bay Area-US hiring stalls with employers reluctant to expand in an economy grown increasingly erratic
- The Hill-Changing the jobs report won’t fix America’s workforce crisis
- KCBS-Lisa Countryman-Quiroz on AI Job Skills (starts at 7:12)
- CNET Money-Don’t Make the Job Hunt Harder. 9 Strategies to Stay Sane and Get Hired.
- CNET Money-Your Recession FAQs Answered: 5 Tips to Help You Prepare, Not Panic
- Inc. Magazine-Try These 3 Strategies to Help Reduce Burnout in Hourly Workers
- KQED Forum-Gen Z Embraces Trades as the College-to-Career Pipeline Cracks
- San Francisco Examiner-Why SF can’t afford to cut workforce funding
- Capitol Weekly-As AI and federal cuts threaten jobs, California must invest in workers
- CNET-Trying to Find a Job? In This Economy? You Need to Follow These Rules
- CNET-Layoff Anxiety is Real. 10 Steps to Take Now Before You Lose Your Job
- USA Today-These are work skills to bolster amid the AI boom
- HR Grapevine-Analysis by expert reveals growing strain of tariffs on low-wage workers
- Power Station Podcast-LinkedIn has identified that in the next 5 years 50% of all job skills will change
- CNET-No, a Tariff Pause Doesn’t Erase Recession Risks. 6 Ways to Prepare for a Downturn
- Fortune-Gen Z men are turning to the kitchen instead of college-they can make $170,000 without the burden of student debt
- The Sacramento Bee-Free medical assistant training program launches in Sacramento this fall
- SideHusl-Get Paid To Learn A Trade
- Authority Magazine-The Great Resignation & The Future Of Work: Lisa Countryman-Quiroz Of JVS Bay Area
- Urban View Mornings-Interview with Lisa Countryman-Quiroz
- Work Shift-Workforce Training Programs Grapple with Threats to Federal Funding
- NBC Bay Area-Tariffs and big purchases: Examining what comes next amid inflation concerns
- San Diego Business Journal-From Custodian to Clinical Tech
- CNET Money-The Labor Market is Getting Battered, but You Wouldn’t Know Looking at the Data
- Work Shift-Merit America’s Expansion to Semiconductors Highlights Training Programs’ Shift Away from Tech
- Salon-Want to earn more in 2025? Learn these skills
- NBC Bay Area-Tech Sector Job Growth Attributed to AI
2024
- San Francisco Chronicle–S.F. job training programs are life-changing. So why does the mayor want to cut their funding?
- CalMatters–California faces a variety of workforce shortages. It can’t afford to cut training programs
- Power Station Podcast–Lisa Countryman-Quiroz in conversation with Anne Pasmanick
- U.S. News and World Report–The Trade School Trend: Why it Might be the Best Personal Financial Decision
- NPR–Many in Gen Z ditch colleges for trade schools. Meet the ‘toolbelt generation’
- Newsweek–Millennials Are Ready for a Four-Day Week
- HR Dive–What are Gen Z’s workplace ‘roadblocks’?
- The Press-Enterprise–Don’t cut job-training programs like the High Road Training Partnership
- Public News Service–CA workforce advocates call job training budget cuts ‘ill-advised’
- SHRM–Skilled Trades Drawing Gen Z’s Interest
- Tribune Content Agency–There are plenty of reasons to consider a career in a trade
- CalMatters–Thousands of Californians got a shot at better careers through this program. Is it working?
- Telemundo–Ofrecen becas para quienes quieran convertirse en asistentes dentales
- San Francisco Business Times–Why health care has an upskilling problem
- LinkedIn–One Man’s Journey from Rural Mexico to Bay Area Tech
2023
2022
- California Dental Association (CDA)–Graduate of dental assistant training program a ‘wonderful asset’ to San Francisco dentist’s mature practice
- New York Times–The Pandemic Wrecked Millions of Careers. These 6 People Built New Ones
- NextCity–Making Youth Entrepreneurs in San Francisco
2021
- San Francisco Chronicle–No degree? No problem. New initiative finds jobs for people with nontraditional backgrounds
- PR Newswire–New Collaborative Calls Upon Bay Area Employers to Create Career Opportunities for All
- The Jewish News of Northern California–Our Pandemic Year: Change is here to stay, say heads of local Jewish agencies
- The North Bay Business Journal–Coronavirus pandemic is speeding up rush to automate some California jobs
- Mercury News–COVID-19 pandemic is speeding up rush to automate some jobs
2020
- Brookings–Helping high schoolers prepare for a disrupted job market in San Francisco
- The Jewish News of Northern California–Jewish Vocational Service in high demand as pandemic unemployment skyrockets
- New Profit Announcement–Aligning with Employers: Advancing Equity in Workforce Development With A Dual-Customer Mindset
- Cruise Future Works–A Social Impact Program to Support Students and Jobseekers
- San Francisco Business Times–Do or Die: Nonprofits adjust to the new normal posed by Covid-19
- ABC 7 News–Coronavirus Impact: Laid-off workers seek new training, careers, post-pandemic
2019
- San Francisco Business Times–Jewish Vocational Service’s longtime CEO stepping down sooner than expected
- AT&T–AT&T Launches $1.3 Million Campaign Addressing Diversity in Tech and Career Readiness for Underserved Communities in Bay Area
- The Hill–Building the on-ramps to the ‘Good Jobs Superhighway’
- KCBS Radio–Forecasters Warn Low Unemployment Numbers Paradoxically Trimming Job Growth
- San Francisco Business Times–How a Bay Area banker, hotelier and former salsa studio owner doubled their salaries
- Fast Company–Ahead of its IPO, Postmates starts offering no-strings perks for couriers
2018
- CityLab–The Future is Green: How green jobs can increase resiliency and create economic opportunities in vulnerable communities
- Medium–Postmates + JVS — Fund your dreams, your bills, or both
- Division of Apprenticeship Standards–“Dogged” partnership launches the first apprenticeship in veterinary assisting
- San Francisco Business Times–Wells Fargo invests in workforce development
- Hoodline–SF SPCA Launches Vet Assistant Apprenticeship Program
- Brookings–Investing in Water Infrastructure and Workers: Examining the Bay Area’s Regional Approach
- KALW 91.7–Looking At Education with Carol Kocivar
- Brookings–The future American workforce will have a lot of jobs to fill, particularly in infrastructureSan Francisco BayView–San Francisco SPCA to launch a free Veterinary Assistant Apprenticeship Program
2017
- Business Wire–Cloud Co-Op Opens Veteran-Powered Help Desk to Support Salesforce Customers
- ZDNet–Salesforce works with higher ed to roll out Trailhead for Students
- PBS News Hour–Column: How to create a financial hardship support group
- Salesforce’s TrailheaDX Conference–Video coverage of keynote featuring JVS at 7 minutes
- Urban Institute–Research Report: Employer Roles in Building Pipelines for Middle-Skill Jobs in Health Care
2016
- Wall Street Journal—Am I Too Old to be Moving Back with Mom and Dad?
- CA Workforce Development Board Policy Brief–JVS’s EXCEL program is a model partnership for CalWORKs participants
- Press Release–JVS Named California Nonprofit of the Year
- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta–EXCEL program as a sustainable model with successful replication
- Press Release–Bank of the West Creates New Community Ambassador Role
- PBS News Hour–Women over 50? Help not wanted. (TV)
2015
- ButtonClick Admin Blog by Salesforce–Interview with Spencer Perry (Podcast)
- ButtonClick Admin Blog by Salesforce–Giving Thanks for the Salesforce Community
- San Francisco Chronicle–Long-term unemployed get training at Jewish Vocational Services
- San Francisco Chronicle–Training pays off for EXCEL students
- New York Times–After Years Out of a Job, Older Workers Find a Way Back In
- The Jewish News of Northern California–JVS Celebrates 30 Years of Kohn Interns
- Press Release–500 People in the Bay Area Will Get Training Thanks to Wells Fargo’s $225,000 Philanthropic Investment in JVS
- The Jewish News of Northern California–Jewish agency helps nurses re-tool
- Press Release–JVS Announces Bay Area Expansion of BankWork $ Award-Winning Financial Career Training Program
- The Jewish News of Northern California–Business, professional & real estate | From two words of English to bank manager, 16 years and count
2014
- The Jewish News of Northern California–JVS receives $6.4 million federal grant
- SF Gate–Combatting long-term unemployment with federal money
- San Francisco Business Times–S.F. nonprofit wins $6.4 million federal grant for tech-focused job training
- SAP Community Network Blog–A Tale of Two Cities: Sharing Skills to Close Silicon Valley Divide with JVS
- Los Angeles Times–U.S. tackles long-term unemployment with $170 million in grants
- Press Release–Department of Labor Awards JVS San Francisco $6.4 Million to Combat Long-Term Unemployment
- The White House | Office of the Press Secretary–FACT SHEET: Getting Long-Term Unemployed Americans Back to Work
- Twitter for Good Blog–Guest post: helping San Francisco job seekers gain skills
- Catalyst Magazine | Microsoft–Growing future employees: Partnerships forged between schools and industry yield results
- San Francisco Chronicle–Minimum wage hike won’t help many workers in S.F.
- San Francisco Business Times–Long-term jobless fly under radar
- NBC Bay Area–San Francisco Bike Nonprofit Continues to Grow, Help Kids
- San Francisco Chronicle – letter to the editor–They’re Still With Us
- The Jewish News of Northern California–JVS jobs strategy held up as model at White House forum