Anita Bruzzese is the author of Take This Job and Thrive (2000). A career and workplace specialist, she writes a weekly nationally syndicated newspaper column for Washington, DC-based Gannett News Service called "On the Job." The column, which has drawn interest and praise from across the country and internationally, focuses on workplace issues.

She is the managing editor of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Journal. She also writes for the websites HR Today and HROne. Her articles have also appeared in Incentive Magazine, HR Today, The Miami Herald, and USA Weekend.

Anita was the founding managing editor of Employee Benefit News. Prior to that, she covered economics from the Washington bureau of Fairchild Publications, reported and edited for USA Today, and wrote for local and daily newspapers.

Anita grew up in a small town in Oklahoma. She took her first journalism class in high school, and from then on she knew a career in journalism was for her. She is a Smith College fellow and a Knight Center fellow. Anita and her husband, who is also a journalist, are the parents of two sons and reside in the Midwest.