Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Shaping the Future: New Expectations for Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (Monday, 6/1/98)
In 1996, the National Science Foundation examined undergraduate science and technology education in the United States and suggested reforms. Here's the Foundation's report: Shaping the Future: New Expectations for Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Small Business Administration (Tuesday, 6/2/98)
Small business is very important to the American economy, among other things, creating two out of three new jobs. However, as anyone who has tried to start a business knows, it's not easy. Success requires most things being just right. Failure requires only one or a few things being wrong. However, generations of small entrepreneurs since the early 1950s have gotten advice and assistance from the Small Business Administration, and so can you. As they say, when you're self-employed, the boss almost works you to death, but, at least, s/he has your best interests at heart.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: What can I do with a major in...? (Wednesday, 6/3/98)
What can I do with a major in...? comes from the campus Career Center at Washington University in St. Louis. The technical fields are very hot, but not everybody majors in computer science or engineering, and people with other majors are finding employment too. This site may help you if you're majoring in one of the liberal arts. Actually, it uses the old gopher protocol, rather than htttp, but, if you're using a current version of one of the major browsers, you should be able to access it without difficulty.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Essential Principles of Economics: A Hypermedia Text (Thursday, 6/4/98)
Did you miss an econ course in school? Want to study on your own? Here's a "webtext" from Philadelphia's Drexel University. It's Essential Principles of Economics: A Hypermedia Text.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) (Friday, 6/5/98)
In addition to being one of the largest industries in the new economy itself, there is every indication that education will continue to play a key role in preparing people for participation in the new work world. However, a revolution within education may be needed, and higher education, in particular, seems to be entering a period of fundamental transformation, whether we like it or not. At any rate, for many years, educators have looked to ERIC for information, and now they and other interested persons can do so on the web. ERIC stands for Educational Resources Information Center, and is a service of the United States Department of Education.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: My Future (Saturday, 6/6/98)
My Futureoffers help for high school students in most aspects of career planning, including money management and the search for college scholarships.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Understanding and Controlling Your Finances (Sunday, 6/7/98)
Time to get your personal finances in order and begin planning for the future? Here's help in twelve parts, including several on-line interactive calculators to assist "what if" computations. Here's Understanding and Controlling Your Finances.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: JobProfiles (Monday, 6/8/98)
Want to hear from the people who actually work in an occupation before making your own career choices? JobProfilesasks people to fill out a questionnaire telling about their work and what it's really like on a daily basis. A large number of occupations are represented.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Survival (Tuesday, 6/9/98)
Survivalseems intended for MBA students, but it points to many resources that can aid the survival of many persons in the new economy. The site comes from Roman Khlupin of the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: America's Employers (Wednesday, 6/10/98)
There are a large number of sites on the web for those who are seeking either employment or employees. America's Employersis one of them. It's a service of a private firm that has provided employment services to large corporations for many years. The site lists tens of thousands of positions as well as tens of thousands of employers, plus other information and guidance.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Entrepreneurial Edge Online (Thursday, 6/11/98)
Entrepreneurial Edge is a quarterly publication for entrepreneurs. Their web site includes links to a variety of business resources as well as an archive of past articles.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ERISS Pathfinder (Friday, 6/12/98)
Here's an innovative and highly analytical approach to providing specific job market data in a form that will serve the needs of employers, job-seekers, and workplace professionals. It also represents a smart way to make use of the Internet in the new economy. The system is being installed in a various U.S. markets. ERISS Pathfindercomes From ERISS Corporation and the Students' Work Consortium. Here's more information, including access to a demonstration site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Shawn's Internet Resume Center (Saturday, 6/13/98)
If you need help with your resume, want to search for a resume, or want to post a resume, Shawn's Internet Resume Centercan help. Sample resumes can be examined by profession or alphabetically.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Careers Online, LLC (Sunday, 6/14/98)
In only a couple of years, Careers Online, LLC has become one of the leading hi-tech talent brokerage firms, helping to bring technically skilled persons together with employers or companies needing contract work done worldwide. COL is an excellent example of how the Internet can be used to build productive global relationships in technical industries. The founder and CEO of Careers Online is Dr. Jerry Willenbring, with whom we have been affiliated during the past five years. As a design engineer and project manager, Dr. Willenbring was one of the leading experts in the commercialization of gas laser technology for a number of years, but has also been a professor and has played various executive roles for major companies. In addition, he has helped to establish and manage a number of startup companies. Careers Online is based in California, but has global reach.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: New York Times Job Market (Monday, 6/15/98)
Recently revamped, the New York Times' Job Market section is a gateway to a variety of employment-related resources, some produced by the paper, many others of outside origin.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: In the Workplace (Tuesday, 6/16/98)
From Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, here's a useful page from their WorkNet@ILR site. In the Workplaceoffers information of interest to those involved in human resources and industrial relations.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Career Development Manual (Wednesday, 6/17/98)
Here's help with nearly all aspects of the career development process from Marlene Bryan of the University of Waterloo. Career Development Manual is a webbook in hypertext format.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Career Mosaic (Thursday, 6/18/98)
Career Mosaicis one of the major job-search sites. In addition to searching through a vast number of posted job openings, you can also access a large number of employers through the site, plus a lot more. Career Mosaic is a very laaaaarge site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Bureau of Economic Analysis (Friday, 6/19/98)
The Bureau of Economic Analysisis an agency of the United States Department of Commerce. Their site provides access to many of the economic statistics routinely gathered by the agency. Much information not only on the domestic American economy and state of American business, but also relating to the international context. Charts, graphs, but also lots of articles.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Chronicle of Higher Education (Saturday, 6/20/98)
Chronicle of Higher Educationis the principal source of academic news in the United States. The print edition is published weekly. The paper's web site includes news, as well as many additional features.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: School-To-Work Center (Sunday, 6/21/98)
Want to know more about school-to-work programs, grants, partnerships? Here's all that and more from the National STW Learning and Information Centerin Washington, D. C.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Industrial/Organizational Psychologist (Monday, 6/22/98)
The Industrial/Organizational Psychologistis a newsletter from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, an American association of professional "work psychologists." To borrow a phrase, psychology has "a long past and a short history," meaning that, while people probably have been interested in human nature for about as long as there have been people, modern scientific psychology arose out of the late 19th century following a period of enormous progress in the natural sciences which, among other things, demonstrated the tremendous power of scientific thinking and procedures for learning about nature, including human nature. Modern psychology usually regards its birth date as 1879 when Wilhelm Wudnt established the first experimental psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany. Psychological concepts and methods were applied to business problems and economic life beginning very early, first in relation to advertising, then, in the 1920's with the famous "Hawthorne Studies" at the Western Electric plant in Illinois, to the organization of work. The Hawthorne Studies and decades of additional research have demonstrated that psychological and social psychological factors can have a huge impact on job performance and satisfaction, productivity, and so on.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Hunger Project (Tuesday, 6/23/98)
The Hunger Projectis an international organization dedicated to the eradication of world hunger. It's been active for twenty years under the direction of a distinguished board.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: International Monetary Fund (Wednesday, 6/24/98)
The International Monetary Fundhas been in the news a lot during recent months, because it has been playing a central role in helping to bail out struggling economies, particularly those in Asia. What is the IMF? What does it do? How does it work? Here are answers to those questions.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: RAND Journal of Economics (Thursday, 6/25/98)
Did you know that the Rand Corporation has an economics journal? It certainly does, and here's its web site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Office of Vocational and Adult Education (Friday, 6/26/98)
The United States Department of Education maintains and Office of Vocational and Adult Education, and you can go there from here.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Education World (Saturday, 6/27/98)
One way or another, education will continue to play a central role in the new economy, whether or not the institutions retain their present form. If you would like information relating to education at any level, Education Worldmay be able to point you in the right direction. Would more than 56,000 education-related web sites be enough?

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American School Counselor Association (Sunday, 6/28/98)
School counselors play a key role in the education process, not the least being their contributions to helping students achieve career direction. Like most professionals, school counselors have a national organization through which they can support one another and share ideas. Now, counselors don't have to wait for conventions in order to get together. In addition, they can meet at the American School Counselor Association web site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: RetireWeb (Monday, 6/29/98)
RetireWeboffers much of what you need to know in order to start planning for your retirement.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Express Financial Advisors (Tuesday, 6/30/98)
One of the more interesting things about this site is that it contains a number of on-line "calculators" for determining your net work, planning for your future with "what if" scenarios, and so forth. Here are your on-line American Express Financial Advisors.

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