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Talking About Museums and Internships

By Nicole Ivy

Hi, Nicole here! Throughout the course of my work on museums and labor at CFM this past year, I have had the pleasure of talking with—and learning from—colleagues across the US in various stages of their careers. Time and again, I’ve heard …
Improving the Future of Hiring

By Elizabeth Merritt

Last week I blogged about the “unbiased hiring” process that we used to fill a recent CFM position here at AAM.Today I wanted to follow up with a few related thoughts sparked by conversations at the Labor 3.0 encounters that CFM …
Rethinking Hiring: Walking the Walk

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’m a fan of leading by doing. Which is to say, when I suggest to museums (as I do in every section of TrendsWatch), “you might want to…” I always ask myself, and the Alliance, if we might “want to” as well. Since one major focus of AAM’s …
Some Reflections on Museums and Labor at the Annual Meeting

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi, Nicole here! This year’s CFM demo in the MuseumExpo during the AAM 2016 Annual Meeting was jam-packed with tough thinking and rich engagement on the issues of museums and labor. During the course of the programming from May 26-28, we …
Labor 3.0: new jobs, or a jobless future?

By Elizabeth Merritt

“The issue is jobs. You can’t get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket, and feeling like somebody.”—Studs Terkel In the last two centuries, labor pivoted from the farm and workshop to the factory and the office. Now, as …
Your Guide to Labor 3.0 at the Annual Meeting

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi, Nicole here! I’m excited to share what we’ve been up to at CFM around the issue of museums and labor and invite you to join in at this year’s annual meeting. Image credit: R. Black Labor issues continue to be front and center as the …
Futurist Friday: Inventing the Edge-y Workplace

By Elizabeth Merritt

One of the themes I explore in TrendsWatch 2016 is the way cultural, economic and technological forces rapidly transforming the way we work. Our infrastructure, for the most part, hasn’t caught up. Here’s one workplace that …
Labor 3.0: Museums and Co-working Spaces

By Elizabeth Merritt

Finding a stable business model for museums in the 21st century is going to take more than patching the old income streams. The goals and expectations of government funding and philanthropy are changing, and there’s more competition for …
Museums & Employment: Casting a Wider Net

By Elizabeth Merritt

Diversifying the museum workforce is going to involve all players in the labor market rethinking traditional assumptions. In her January guest post (“One Graduate’s Job Search Story”) Sophie Stein encourages recent …
What is the Fair Market Value of a Museum Job?

By Elizabeth Merritt

Last week’s post on the Museum Sacrifice Measure generated a lot of discussion on Twitter, Facebook and in the Blog comment section. I recommend you go back and read that post before you read this one: I’m using today’s post to summarize …