January 2000 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Inomics (Saturday, 1/1/00)
If you're an economist, Inomics may be able to help you find a job or a conference to attend.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Center for Corporate Law (Sunday, 1/2/00)
The Center for Corporate Law comes to you and corporate lawyers from the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Outward Bound Professional (Sunday, 1/3/00)
Outward Bound Professional offers challenging programs intended to improve relationships and effectiveness in the workplace.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Canadian Resume Centre (Tuesday, 1/4/00)
Want prospective employers to see your resume without jeopardizing your present job? That is, is confidentiality important to you? The Canadian Resume Centre may be able to help.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: BBC News Business (Wednesday, 1/5/00)
One of the world's great broadcasting organizations has become a significance presence online as well. Here's the BBC News Business site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Blue Web'N (Thursday, 1/6/00)
Blue Web'N has selected about a thousand educational sites on the Internet that they believe stand out.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The World Travel Guide (Thursday, 1/7/00)
The World Travel Guide contains extensive information about destinations all over the world as well as about the practicalities of travel, business and otherwise. .

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Farm Economics: Current Issues (Saturday, 1/8/00)
Farm Economics: Current Issues is based on radio broadcasts from Iowa State University. With the proper plugin, you can listen to their audio archives, including many timely interviews with leading authorities.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Money Advisor Financial Calculators (Sunday, 1/9/00)
Here's one of the largest collections of financial calculators we've seen on the web. They can help you compute just about anything relating to your personal finances and more.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Globalization and Human Rights (Monday, 1/910/00)
Globalization and Human Rights is the web companion to a PBS television presentation on the same topic.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Firing and Termination (Tuesday, 1/11/00)
When you have to fire somebody, it's important to know your legal limitations and obligations. Quicken and Excite offer information about Firing and Termination.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Akamac (Wednesday, 1/12/00)
Akama Michio of Japan's Ehime University has compiled links to a great many full-text versions of well-known economic and social works available on the Internet.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Time's Top 100 (Thursday, 1/13/00)
Here's Time magazine's 100 most important people of the 20th century.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Kenneth G. Fisher Library (Friday, 1/14/00)
The Kenneth G. Fisher Library at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business offers access to various online resources, including many journals.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for Labor Economics (Saturday, 1/1\5/00)
The Center for Labor Economics is located at the University of California Berkeley and was formed in 1997 to support research. The Center also conducts a weekly seminar series and sponsors visiting scholars.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: law.com Career Center (Sunday, 1/1\6/00)
law.com Career Center offers news, advice, job listings and more for lawyers wanting to make the most and best out of their careers.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: United States Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (Monday, 1/17/00)
This Labor Department site offers advice and assistance for both employers and job-seekers, as well as information on application laws and regulations. Here's the DOL's Employment and Training Administration.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Birkman Career Style Summary (Tuesday, 1/18/00)
The Birkman Career Style Summary is a brief survey intending to help you make career decisions and match yourself with work and work settings with which you are most compatible. Does it rest on research demonstrating its statistical reliability and validity? We have no idea, but we do know that this is an important question.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: VolunteerMatch (Wednesday, 1/19/00)
Want to help out? There are many opportunities for volunteers in all parts of the United States and elsewhere. VolunteerMatch helps get volunteers and those needing help in touch with each other. You can do searches in more than two dozen major American cities.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Workforce Investment Act (Thursday, 1/20/00)
President Clinton signed the Workforce Investment Act into law almost a year and a half ago. Among other things, it was intended to bring order out of the chaos of a zillion different training programs and also tailor governmentally-funded training to the needs of localities by involving people close to local communities in the decision process. If you would like more information, you'll be happy to know that the Workforce Investment Act has its own web site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Travel Jobs Network (Friday, 1/21/00)
According to best estimates, there are tens of thousands of web sites that list job openings. The early ones tried to be all things to everybody, but, more recently, many sites have been more specialized, either to serve certain economic sectors or regions. Travel Jobs Network is both. It lists jobs in the travel and tourism industries in Australia and New Zealand.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Back to College: Resources for Re-Entry Students (Saturday, 1/22/00)
Perhaps one of the principal strengths of the American higher education system is its relative flexibility and that it allows multiple opportunities. If you attend here, and it doesn't work, then, you can try over there. If you don't succeed now, maybe later. If life circumstances or family responsibilities require that you drop out, you're not out of luck for the rest of your life. If you're heading back to campus after being away for a while, Back to College can help.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EngAPPLETS (Sunday, 1/23/00)
EngAPPLETS stands for "engineering applets" and are intended to help students understand engineering principles. These come from the National Science Foundation.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Union Network International (Monday, 1/24/00)
Union Network International is oriented to the new global economy and is itself new. It is a network of 900 unions with more than 15 million members across many countries.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Association of Private Enterprise Education (Tuesday, 1/25/00)
If you believe that the market system tends to distribute resources more justly and efficiently than any central planner could do and that social needs are better served by a system in which individuals pursue their own ends than by government mandate, you will find many kindred spirits in the Association of Private Enterprise Education. The APEE has been working toward greater public understanding of private enterprise for two decades and is guided by a number of university professors, Federal Reserve officials, and others of like mind.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Great Economists and Their Times (Wednesday, 1/26/00)
Great Economists and Their Times is mostly what it sounds like, and comes to you from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The economists surveyed are from times ranging from the 18th century through the late 20th century.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Tarki: Social Research Information Center (Thursday, 1/27/00)
Since 1985, Tarki has been a major resource for social scientists in Hungary.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Entertainment Employment Guide (Friday, 1/28/00)
Job sites have gotten more specialized This one lists jobs in the entertainment industry.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Mapping Your Future (Saturday, 1/29/00)
Federal Family Education Loan Program participating agencies sponsor this site. It provides information of interest to students or prospective students about careers, college, and, of course, about paying for college.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: USDA Economic Research Service (Sunday, 1/30/00)
The United States Department of Agriculture conducts a good deal of agricultural research and also summarizes research done by others. The USDA's Economic Research Service on the web makes much of this available to you.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Human Rights Library (Monday, 1/31/00)
Many people would like to see human rights issues attached to agreements expanding world trade. Here are more than 6,000 relevant documents from the University of Minnesota's Human Rights Library.

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