Today's NewWork News Web Tip: FutureWork (Friday, 5/1/98)
For several years, FutureWork has been the definitive on-line discussion group in which thoughtful people throughout the world have carried on conversations about issues relating to the new world of work. You can access their archives on the FutureWork web site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Jobs Letter (Saturday, 5/2/98)
The Jobs Letter is a major print publication in New Zealand, where a subscription fee is charged. However, it's available free throughout the rest of the world as an on-line newsletter which will be delivered to your e-mail box automatically, once you have subscribed. Vivian Hutchinson is editor.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Career Magazine (Sunday, 5/3/98)
Career Magazine's name pretty much tells what it is. The print version is rapidly becoming a major resource for persons attempting to navigate the treacherous waters of the new economy without a map, and the magazine's web site is worth a look periodically, as well. You'll find information, advice, and a variety of articles on relevant topics. We point to Career Magazine articles on NewWork News quite frequently.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Riley Guide (Monday, 5/4/98)
Even though Riley isn't Riley anymore, The Riley Guide is still very much alive and available on the web to help job seekers and recruiters find each other. Richard Bolles of What Color is Your Parachute fame thinks it's the best of its kind, and, while we won't argue, there are a lot of job-related resources on the web, and you need not settle for a single one. A good place to start when searching for other resources is The Riley Guide itself, in fact.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Edupage (Tuesday, 5/5/98)
Edupage is an e-mail newsletter produced by a consortium of higher ed institutions. Once you've subscribed, it will be delivered directly to your e-mail box several times per week and provide you with a brief summary of the latest hi-tech news. To subscribe, send an e-mail mail message to listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message: subscribe edupage yourname.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: On the Horizon (Wednesday, 5/6/98)
Anyone who is interested in the new work world must also be interested in education. Professor James Morrison of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is editor of the Horizon web site, as well as their print publication and their on-line e-mail newsletter, to which you can subscribe. Many articles are presented which are directly relevant to the new world of work, including articles about technology and its implications. Of course, education itself is part of the new economy and is in the process of adapting to its dynamic forces. Professor Morrison is also affiliated with Microsoft Corporation.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Princeton Review Guide to Graduate School (Thursday, 5/7/98)
Thinking about attending graduate school? Need some help deciding? Need help choosing prospective universities? Here's the Princeton Review to the rescue. You can even take a sample GRE test on-line.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: What Color Is Your Parachute: The Net Guide (Friday, 5/8/98)
Richard Bolles has sold six million copies of his highly influential career book, What Color is Your Parachute, and he updates it each year. Now, he's on-line as well. What Color Is Your Parachute: The Net Guide is hosted by the Washington Post.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: workindex (Saturday, 5/9/98)
workindex is a joint project of Human Resource Executive magazine and the Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations. It is a tremendously useful resource for human resource professionals, executives, educators, or anyone else interested in finding current and relevant information on workplace issues.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Career Planning Process (Sunday, 5/10/98)
Here's detailed, step-by-step help in every aspect of the career planning process from self-assessment to goal setting to taking action. Career Planning Process comes from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Future Society (Monday, 5/11/98)
The World Future Society is a very large organization of scholars professionally interested in trends in all areas of social and economic life. The Society supports research, conducts conferences and training programs, produces books, and also publishes the well-known and influential periodical, The Futurist.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: International Business Resources on the WWW (Tuesday, 5/12/98)
In the revolutionary new world economy, nearly everybody needs to acquire a global perspective, and each day's news tells how an increasing number of businesses are participating in an international marketplace, whether they like it or not. International Business Resources on the WWW comes to you from Michigan State University's Center for International Business Education and Research.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Occupational Outlook Handbook (Wednesday, 5/13/98)
For many years, the Occupational Outlook Handbook has been a standard reference in university libraries and career centers. Now, you can obtain much of the same information from its web site. Check for information about occupations of interest, as well as likely demand during the years ahead, and so on. The OOH comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics U.S. Department of Labor.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: America's Job Bank (Thursday, 5/14/98)
America's Job Bank comes from the U.S. Department of Labor and state employment agencies. As possible evidence that the Internet is quickly becoming a key element in practical affairs, this site has been visited more than 275 million times during the past six months!.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Careers.wsj.com (Friday, 5/15/98)
Careers.wsj.com is a very rich, deep career site from the Wall Street Journal, one of the world's great newspapers. Articles, columnists, advice, and much more, but with heavy emphasis on technical, managerial, or professional roles.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The International Labor Organization (Saturday, 5/16/98)
The International Labor Organization is now an agency of the United Nations, but it predates the UN, and is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. The ILO works on a global scale to further the interests and well-being of women in the new economy, to combat child labor and the resurgence of slavery in its various forms, and many other issues.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: SCORE: Service Corps of Retired Executives (Sunday, 5/17/98)
As job security has diminished, an increasing number of people are feeling that, if they're going to be nervous anyway, they may as well enjoy the opportunities that can come from starting their own businesses. However, most quickly find that they could really use some experienced advice on many issues. For many years, SCORE: Service Corps of Retired Executives has been making the expertise of experienced executives available to the owners and operators of small businesses over a wide region. Now, advice is even available on-line.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Career Interests Game (Monday, 5/18/98)
The Career Interests Game is based on John Holland's career model, as found in The Self-Directed Search, the Strong Interest Inventory, and others. Examine your own career interests on the web courtesy of the University of Missouri Career Center.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: SEACnet (Tuesday, 5/19/98)
SEACnet is a very smart way to use the Internet to get university grads and employers in touch with one another. It's a product of a consortium of twenty-one southeastern United States universities and may be a prototype for what all institutions of higher education will be doing before long.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: AboutWork (Wednesday, 5/20/98)
AboutWork offers work-related information and advice of special interest to women. The site comes from iVillage.com: The Women's Network.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Michigan Prevention Research Center (Thursday, 5/21/98)
The University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research has been recognized throughout the world for many years and has conducted extensive studies on a wide variety of topics, not limited to work issues. However, its Michigan Prevention Research Center does deal with work. More specifically, it has several ongoing projects relating to well-being on the job.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Merlin Falcon MBA Guide (Friday, 5/22/98)
You want choices, you got choices. If you are thinking that a Master of Business Administration degree could help your career, there are more than 1,000 universities around the world where you can earn one. The Merlin Falcon MBA Guide from the United Kingdom can help you with questions like whether, where, when, and how. Their site also provides information about the relevant standardized tests used for selection purposes and other issues.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: JobTrak (Saturday, 5/23/98)
A growing number of web sites attempt to get employers and graduates together. One of the older services with one of the busier sites is JobTrak, which has cultivated relationships with hundreds of colleges and universities. Their site has more than 30,000 visitors daily and more than 3,000 new job posts each day.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Online Career Center (Sunday, 5/24/98)
The Online Career Center is still one of the busier career-related sites with job postings, advice, and more. However, it doesn't dominate as it once did. It was started by Jim Gonyea who also founded Help Wanted USA and the Career Center on America Online. However, the Online Career Center appears to be under different ownership at this point.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ErgoWeb (Monday, 5/25/98)
Thirty years ago, it was mostly called "human factors" or "engineering psychology" in the United States. "Ergonomics" was a European term. Moreover, the field started as a concern with "man-machine systems" during the Second World War. It was found that machines could be designed which, from a strictly engineering standpoint, were fine. However, the problems often began when a human being had to operate many of those things, because human capacities and limitations were not taken into account in the design. Later, a concern with automotive safety and the space program made it increasingly obvious that machines should be designed in terms of human perceptual, learning, memory, and other attributes. In more recent years, the computer industry picked up the term "ergonomics" and related it to everything from the design of the user interface to the design of keyboards. Other industries have picked it up as well, and have broadened its application. Now, "ergonomics" concerns the person's relationship, not only to machines, but also furniture and other aspects of the work or consumer environment. ErgoWeb is about most aspects of ergonomics.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Top Ten Technical Resume Writing Tips (Tuesday, 5/26/98)
Need some help with your resume. Here it is from Taos Mountain, a major San Francisco-area web site development firm. Their Top Ten Technical Resume Writing Tips should be useful, whatever your field, but particularly so if you are seeking a technical position.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: California Virtual University (Wednesday, 5/27/98)
We believe that it requires too much imagination to believe that the combination of escalating costs, the current political climate, including the privatization drive, plus the hi-tech revolution will not fundamentally transform higher education in the United States during the years immediately ahead. In fact, Peter Drucker believes that universities, as we have known them, will be gone within 30 years. We believe that many will be fundamentally changed and some campuses closed down within five years. Here's a major example of the exploding online college course industry from the state with a nation-state's economy that has set trends for the entire country time and again. It's California Virtual University.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: NATLEX (Thursday, 5/28/98)
If you want to know about employment law and related legislation around the world, it's probably a good idea to look here first. NATLEX offers a bibliography of nearly 50,000 references covering all of the countries in the world. The site comes from the International Labour Organization and is presented in multiple languages.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Colleges and Careers Center (Friday, 5/29/98)
For years, U.S. News and World Report, one of America's leading news magazines, has been compiling lists of the top colleges and graduate schools in the United States. They've gathered their resources together to produce Colleges and Careers Center, which is filled with helpful information and guidance for those desiring assistance on nearly any aspect of college or career planning.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: WebEc: World Wide Web Resources in Economics (Saturday, 5/30/98)
The web contains an awfully lot of economic information available through a very large number of sites. Whatever your specific economic interests, WebEc: World Wide Web Resources in Economics is one of the most comprehensive guides and a good place to start.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Explorations in Social Inequality (Sunday, 5/31/98)
Trinity University sociologist Michael Kearl examines social stratification in the United States and other regions of the world, including the growing "have vs. have not" gap within the context of the revolutionary new world economy. Explorations in Social Inequality provides data, ideas, and access to additional resources.

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