February 2002 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: SmartMoney 401(k) Planner (Friday, 2/1/02)
You can perform a variety of "what if" calculations to assist your planning for a 401(k) retirement account on the SmartMoney site. In addition to the 401(k) planner, informative resources are provided.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Economic Forum (Saturday, 2/2/02)
The current World Economic Forum has been moved out of Davos, Switzerland and into New York City in 2002 for the first time, in part as a symbolic response to the destruction of the World Trade Center, but also because of security concerns in the Swiss resort. Here's the World Economic Forum web site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Enron (Sunday, 2/3/02)
You might wonder if Enron has a web site and also, under the circumstances, whether it's still available on the Internet. The answers are yes and yes, respectively, and here it is. It contains access to the latest court news for former Enron employees as well as some offered career services.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Annual Budget Process (Monday, 2/4/02)
Each year, the President submits a budget to Congress, but that's just the beginning. Here's a description of the Annual Budget Process from the United States House of Representatives.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Labor and Labor Movements (Tuesday, 2/5/02)
Here's the Labor and Labor Movements page from the American Sociological Association. It comes to you from Bowling Green State University's Department of Sociology.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The World's Richest People (Wednesday, 2/6/02)
We know that the world's wealthiest person attended the World Economic Forum in New York City during five recent days. We don't know how many more of the world's richest were on hand at the meetings. However, Forbes magazine, which, among other things, is famous for its lists, can at least tell us who the richest are. Here's the latest list of the world's richest people. Incidentally, the slump of the economy and the stock market has bumped 46 Americans out of the billionaires' club.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Immigration Lawyers Association (Thursday, 2/7/02)
The American Immigration Lawyers Association was founded in 1946. It is an organization of more than 7,500 lawyers and law professors who specialize in immigration law. Many are willing to provide services pro bono. A directory is available on the site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: BrassRing (Friday, 2/8/02)
After being gone for awhile, BrassRing is back in renewed form. Here's its career advice page, including tips on IT certification which has been big in recent years. In fact, for career purposes, the right IT certificate can be more important than many university degrees.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Careers in Accounting and Finance (Saturday, 2/9/02)
The Enron and Arthur Andersen mess should be interpreted to mean that the solution for bad accounting is not no accounting, but, instead, good accounting. Modern economies depend entirely on numbers that everyone can trust as accurately reflecting realities, as well as on the people who are able and willing to provide those numbers. Here's a look at Careers in Accounting and Finance, including educational preparation and opportunities for graduates, from an Australian perspective. The information comes from CPA Australia.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: BBB's Safe Shopping Site (Sunday, 2/10/02)
The Better Business Bureau's new Safe Shopping Site can help consumers preserve their privacy, as well as protect themselves in other ways when shopping online. The site identifies 11,000 sites that have met the Bureau's standards.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Profitsharing (Monday, 2/11/02)
Profitsharing comes to you from the National Association of Retirement Plan Sponsors and is intended to provide help with your retirement investments.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 401(k) Wire (Tuesday, 2/12/02)
If you think BraveNewWorkWorld & New Work News is an extreme example of the specialized "narrowcasting" that is made possible by the Internet, check out 401(k) Wire. It is the opposite of a general news service. Instead, it intends to keep you informed about events affecting, well, your 401(k). That's it. However, if that's what you're interested in, they may give you precisely what you want to know.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Worktree (Wednesday, 2/13/02)
Worktree claims to be the largest job site in the world. Since there are thousands of them, we're unable to confirm or deny this. However, they say that you can take a look at millions of job listings on their site, and they also include access to other job sites and newspaper listings.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Japanese Economy (Thursday, 2/14/02)
Here's a summary of the Japanese economy, as well as a collection of links to relevant Japanese-related sites, from the Japan-Guide.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Accounting Association (Friday, 2/15/02)
The American Accounting Association was founded in 1916 and intends to "promote excellence in accounting education, research and practice." Its site comes to you from a server at Rutgers University.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Heritage Tax Calculator (Saturday, 2/16/02)
As debate continues over whether last year's tax cut benefited the American economy, you can determine whether or to what extent it benefited you personally. Here's the Heritage Tax Calculator from the Heritage Foundation.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Cornell's Global Economic Trends (Sunday, 2/17/02)
Cornell's Global Economic Trends is a newsletter, the title of which describes its editorial focus. Subscribers include large corporations, libraries, and universities. No, it does not come from Cornell University, but, instead, from Edward Cornell.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EconomicsInternational (Monday, 2/18/02)
Emerging market economies around the world have a special need for economics education, and that's what EconomicsInternational is all about. It comes from the National Council on Economics Education.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Exploring Occupations (Tuesday, 2/19/02)
The counseling and career center at Canada's University of Manitoba offers access to a useful compilation of resources relating to a large number of lines of work. In each case, Exploring Occupations lists links to outside sites as well as the university's own offerings.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Student Guide (Wednesday, 2/20/02)
If you're wondering how you will pay for higher education, you can start by consulting The Student Guide from the U.S. Department of Education.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Institute for Higher Education Policy (Thursday, 2/21/02)
The Institute for Higher Education Policy was founded in 1993 as an independent research and advisory organization concerned with broadening access to higher education in the U.S. and abroad.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Nurse Advocate: Nurses and Workplace Violence (Friday, 2/22/02)
Nurses, like other human service professionals who deliberately expose themselves to situations most people try to avoid, are vulnerable to burnout, but there are other occupational hazards as well. For instance, nursing is a dangerous profession. Nurse Advocate offers news and access to resources on issues relating to workplace violence experienced by nurses.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Recruiters Online Network (Saturday, 2/23/02)
Recruiters Online Network connects recruiters, headhunters, and professional staffing firms and offers help to both jobs seekers and employers.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Career Builder's Interviewing Guide (Sunday, 2/24/02)
You'll never have a second chance to make a first impression, as they say. The Career Builder site offers guidance and assistance on the whole process of interviewing, including a discussion of "interview types," each of which has its own set of purposes and requires its own approach.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Business Graduate Programs (Monday, 2/25/02)
This site wants to help you find just the right MBA or other business graduate program among the two or three zillion available.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Levy Economics Institute (Tuesday, 2/26/02)
The Levy Economics Institute is a nonprofit public policy research organization that has centers at multiple locations in New York state, but its headquarters are at Bard College north of New York City.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Learning About Money (Wednesday, 2/27/02)
There's widespread agreement that financial illiteracy costs Americans a lot and that there is a need for a major educational initiative in order to create better informed future generations. Here are some suggested educational resources from the United States Treasury.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economics Departments on the Internet (Thursday, 2/28/02)
A lot of university departments of economics have web sites. Here they are listed by state as well as alphabetically.

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