November 2000 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Headhunter guides (Wednesday, 11/1/00)
Here are some headhunter guides, or some things you might want to know about the practice of executive search and the people who do it. One is from the 1999 US News career guide, and the other is "How many heads can a headhunter hunt" from Fortune magazine. The latter is a transcript of an interview with a number of leaders in the field.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (Wednesday, 11/1/00) (Thursday, 11/2/00)
FREE is teaching and learning resources on every conceivable subject from federal government agencies.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EduFind (Friday, 11/3/00)
EduFind is an specialized search engine for those interested in finding information about education.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Frequently Asked Questions on the Electoral College (Saturday, 11/4/00)
Here's a college that most certainly doesn't have a football team. As this is written, we are three days from election day in the U.S. in what appears to be the closest presidential contest in decades. Experts say that there is a remote, although real possibility this time that one man could receive the most votes and that the other could become president. Recall that the United States grew out of a collection of separate colonies and, then, states (note the use of the word "state") which many felt should retain a high degree of sovereignty. To this day, technically, the national presidential election is really a collection of 50 different "winner-take-all" elections. In each state, the winner gets all of that state's electoral votes, the number of which is determined by the total number of that state's seats in Congress. To modern descendants of the Federalists, the continued use of the Electoral College seems to be an archaic anachronism, the reality being that America is a single country. To others, however, issues of "states' rights" are still quite current and important. Here are answers to Frequently Asked Questions on the Electoral College from the Office of the Federal Register.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology (Sunday, 11/5/00)
The Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology is a new-economy institution located in Germany's hi-tech region that conducts programs in conjunction with the University of Stuttgart, the University of Hohenheim and the University of Tuebingen, as well as with global corporations. As an additional indication of its orientation to the realities of the new global economy, it conducts its programs in English.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: OSH Answers (Monday, 11/6/00)
OSH Answers provides information in a Q&A format provided free to the public from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Embark.com (Tuesday, 11/7/00)
Embark.com has been selected by PC Magazine for its Editor's Choice Award as the best educational portal on the Internet.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Women's Hall of Fame (Wednesday, 11/8/00)
History, as many of us learned it in school, left a lot of things out, and the result has been a highly distorted view of African cultures, Native American cultures, among others, and of women's accomplishments nearly everywhere. If you think that women haven't done anything interesting, think again, and visit the National Women's Hall of Fame right on the monitor in front of you.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Salary Wizard (Thursday, 11/9/00)
Vault.com's Salary Wizard helps you determine your likely salary by job title and location.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Social Security Retirement Benefits (Friday, 11/10/00)
Social Security Retirement Benefits is an online booklet from the Social Security Administration containing information for anyone who is planning retirement, and reflects recent changes in the law regarding earnings.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CIA World Factbook (Saturday, 11/11/00)
If you travel internationally for purposes of work, or for any other reason, you may find the CIA World Factbook invaluable as a source of information on the countries in which you have interest.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Truth about Interviews (Sunday, 11/12/00)
If your interview goes on for a long time and seems to range over many topics, the interviewer may simply be too polite to tell you that his/her mind has already been made up and it's time for you to get lost. According to this article, most interviews are really over after the first five minutes or so, no matter how long they seem to last. The Truth about Interviews is that they are heavily loaded toward first impressions.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: GradFinder (Monday, 11/13/00)
GradFinder claims to be able to help you regain contact with your old classmates as your school days recede into history.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Tuesday, 11/14/00)
Here's the Encyclopedia of Law and Economics from the University of Ghent.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Official U.S. Time (Wednesday, 11/15/00)
Are you suffering from a lack of time? Well, here's all the time you need. Actually, this site enables you to determine exactly the Official U.S. Time where you are or wherever anyone else might be located in the U.S. or its territories, within 9 seconds or so.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Progress of Nations 2000 (Thursday, 11/16/00)
The concept of "progress" in human affairs is relatively new historically, and naive assumptions about progress, let alone "inevitable progress," have been abandoned by most thoughtful people in the world in favor of more realistic assessments of the complexity of things. At any particular time, things are getting better for some people and worse for others, and in various ways. Here's UNICEF's Progress of Nations Report for the year 2000.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Office.com (Friday, 11/17/00)
Office.com says it is all about using the Internet in your work.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Bureau of Transportation Statistics: Flight Delays (Saturday, 11/18/00)
If your immediate future will include either holiday or business travel, the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics page can help you assess the likelihood of flight delays.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Top Ten Technical Resume Writing Tips (Sunday, 11/19/00)
TAOS is a company specializing in SysAdmin staffing, particularly in UNIX and Windows environments, and they have some suggestions for you if you're trying to write your resume. Here are their Top Ten Technical Resume Writing Tips.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Principles of Health Economics for Developing Countries (Monday, 11/20/00)
Given the new global economy's growing have vs. have not gap, many underdeveloped countries can use some good news. The World Bank Institute reports that there have been significant improvements in health during the past half-century. Here's their textbook on such topics, Principles of Health Economics for Developing Countries.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Development Assistance (Tuesday, 11/21/00)
Japan has been the focus of much attention in recent years, because its role as "post-war miracle" has receded ever more deeply into history. The Japanese economy is still struggling to recover from its worst recession since the devastation of World War II. Nonetheless, the issues are relative. Japan still has the world's third-largest economy, and is more than twice as large as all of the other Asian economies combined. So, despite its own troubles, Japan provides considerable assistance to developing countries. Here's information about developmental assistance from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Employee Benefits Survey (Wednesday, 11/22/00)
Here's a great deal of data on employee benefit plans from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Gotajob.com (Thursday, 11/27/00)
Gotajob.com is one of hundreds if not thousands of job sites on the Internet, but it may be of particular interest to young workers seeking part-time or entry-level positions. Almost 140,000 jobs are listed.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: On the future "just-in-time" workforce (Tuesday, 11/28/00)
Bruce Tulgan writes a lot about his generation, which is Generation X. Here's what he has to say about the just-in-time workforce of the future.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CyberU (Wednesday, 11/29/00)
CyberU offers access to corporate education programs online.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Theory X and Theory Y (Thursday, 11/30/00)
Forty years ago, famed MIT professor Douglas McGregor introduced his "theory X and theory Y" ideas to the practice of management. These represent different sets of attitudes or assumptions on which managers can base their approach to dealing with their employees. McGregor's thinking was much influenced by Abraham Maslow's "hierarchy of needs," probably the best-known and most influential model of human motivation, at least in business settings. Here's more about Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y from Brunel University in London

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