February 2001 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Business Week: Careers (Thursday, 2/1/01)
Business Week's ambitious careers section is available online, but you'll have to be a paid subscriber to access the articles. However, you can visit the site free in order to see what they offer.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Dislocated Workers (Friday, 2/2/01)
This Dislocated Workers site comes from the Employment and Training Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor and provides guidance and information for employers, laid-off workers, and workforce development professionals.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Alliance of Work/Life Professionals (Saturday, 2/3/01)
Apparently, work-life balance issues didn't appear on either presidential candidate's radar screen during the last campaign, but former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, author of The Future of Success, thinks these will be major issues in 2004 and 2008. Much is already bubbling below the surface scanned by the media, including The Alliance of Work/Life Professionals, an organization of professionals from business, academe, and the public sector who want to see a healthier balance between work and the rest of people's lives.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Yahoo Finance (Sunday, 2/4/01)
Yahoo's Finance site offers advice on taxes plus many other issues having to do with personal finance.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Office of the United States Trade Representative (Monday, 2/5/01)
If you've been wondering about the official U.S. positions on various trade issues, you may be able to find what you need to know at the Office of the United States Trade Representative.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Tax Planet (Tuesday, 2/6/01)
Tax Planet offers easily accessible reference material and a calendar, as well as information on many tax-related topics.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: An interview with Howard Gardner (Wednesday, 2/9/01)
Howard Gardner is well-known in psychology because of his ideas and research relating to multiple types of intelligence. However, he's also done considerable work on decision-making and leadership, and here's an interview with him that may be of interest to business professionals.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Business Researcher's Jumpstation (Sunday, 2/11/01)
If you're a business person suffering from information overload, A Business Researcher's Jumpstation may help you make more efficient and productive searches on the Internet.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Art Hire (Monday, 2/12/01)
Art Hire is a specialized jobs site for artists and people who want to employ artists. As is the case on many jobs sites, you can post your resume free. This site differs from most of its genre, though, in that it also offers an opportunity to buy and sell art work.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Gender Equity in Higher Education Resource Page (Tuesday, 2/13/01)
The Gender Equity in Higher Education Resource Page comes to you from Gonzaga University in Washington and offers links to other sites with a similar focus.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Tax Help from Smart Money (Wednesday, 2/14/01)
A lot of tax help is available, some of it from credible sources. Here's one: It's Smart Money magazine's tax page on the web.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Net Worth Calculator (Thursday, 2/15/01)
You can calculate your net worth with the help of this calculator from the Washington Post.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: SalaryExpert.com (Friday, 2/16/01)
If you're planning on relocating, SalaryExpert.com may be worth checking before you contract with the movers. They say that they provide salary, benefit, and cost-of-living information for 30,000 positions in over 45,000 locations.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Working Women: Equal Pay (Saturday, 2/17/01)
Here's the AFL-CIO site promoting equal pay for women.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Teenvestor (Sunday, 2/18/01)
Surveys show that young Americans tend not to be the beneficiaries of a great deal of financial and economic sophistication, although this may be something that they share with their elders, not something that makes their generation stand out, particularly. Teenvestor to the rescue! This site is aimed at people within the 12- to 18-year age range, and provides much clear financial and entrepreneurial information as well as links to other financial sites for teens.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Tech Salary Survey (Monday, 2/19/01)
If you work in a technical field and would like to compare your income with others in comparable roles, take the Washington Post's tech salary survey.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Cyber Tax Helpers (Tuesday, 2/20/01)
The Detroit Free Press offers a guide to the various computer programs that can be used to help you prepare your taxes.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Wet Feet (Wednesday, 2/21/01)
There are thousands of job posting sites on the Internet, and Wet Feet is one of them. It contains listings for over 30,000 jobs and about 1,600 companies specializing mostly in finance, consulting, technology, and the Internet.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: University of Phoenix (Thursday, 2/22/01)
CBS-TV's "60 Minutes" did a segment last Sunday night on the recent explosion of online higher educational programs, which, according to many educational leaders, including those who have deep reservations about this mode of learning, threaten all conventional academic institutions, including the famous ones. As a measure of how fast the changes have been occurring, which is the largest private university in the United States now? If you said the University of Phoenix, you probably watched the "60 Minutes" segment, and you would be right, according to CBS. The reason, they say, is that, almost overnight, the University of Phoenix has become a major leader in "distance education".

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Top Executive MBA Programs according to US News (Friday, 2/23/01)
Here's US News' year 2000 rankings of what the news magazine's editors consider to be the leading executive MBA programs in the United States.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Sologig (Saturday, 2/24/01)
If you're a free-lancer, Sologig can help you market your talents and services nationwide.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Career Talk (Sunday, 2/25/01)
Career Talk is what it sounds like, or, more accurately, what it reads like. Look for articles and columns of interest to persons planning their careers or seeking jobs, as well as to educators and others interested in careers.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Al Roth's Game Theory and Experimental Economics Page (Monday, 2/26/01)
If you think "game theory" is about how to clean up in Las Vegas or about how to play a better hand of bridge, you need to take a look at what Harvard economics professor Al Roth has put together on his theory and experimental economics page.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Atlas of the United States (Tuesday, 2/27/01)
Here's a way of looking at the United States or locales within the country in terms of agricultural production or other attributes from a great variety of perspectives. The United States Department of the Interior presents the interactive version of the National Atlas of the United States. Maps, maps, maps, which can be useful to you in your business, in education, or just to satisfy your curiosity.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Libraries on the Web (Wednesday, 2/28/01)
Libraries on the Web comes from the University of California, Berkeley, and lists public libraries throughout the United States.

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