Resources
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| FutureLinks (PathFinder) |
Are you a student looking for job opportunities or an internship? Perhaps you want to learn more about a profession by shadowing or visiting a workplace? PathFinder lists hundreds of opportunities for you offered by local businesses that are committed to supplementing high school education with a taste of the working world. If you're an employer and want to provide opportunities to young people, look into registering with PathFinder. Opportunities include internships, shadowing, visits, classroom speakers, tours, and other career guidance and development activities. |
| Jefferson County Public Schools Career Development | This web site, sponsored by Jefferson County Public Schools, has information and links to career development initiatives and programs (PathFinder is one of these), content standards, approved text information, and other career development information for students, parents, and teachers. |
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| International Council for Small Business | This is an international organization devoted to the development of small businesses worldwide. Their resources page has links to academic, government, and related organizational sites. The ICSB publishes a newsletter and the Journal of Small Business Development, both available to members only. |
| Online Women's Business Center | This is the online presence of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Women's Business Ownership. "America's 9.1 million women-owned businesses employ 27.5 million people and contribute $3.6 trillion to the economy...OWBO promotes the growth of women-owned businesses through programs that address business training and technical assistance, and provide access to credit and capital, federal contracts, and international trade opportunities." This site has information about starting your own business and business basics, statistics, and success stories. They also have site branches in Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and other languages. |
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| Business Ethics Resources on WWW | A branch of the University of British Columbia's Center for Applied Ethics website. This website includes links to a large number of corporate codes of ethics, business ethics organizations and watchdog groups, online publications about business ethics, and ethics topics. They also have a bibliography of print resources. |
| International Labour Organization | The International Labour Organization is an office of the United Nations. It is dedicated to the promotion of ethical, safe, and humane labor conditions throughout the world. Issues it concerns itself with include child labor, unsafe work conditions, exploitation of women and other groups in the work force, and inadequate protections for foreign workers, among many others. |
| ExecutivePlanet.com -- Business Etiquette and Culture | This is a fun site if you want to get the flavor of business customs around the world. It certainly is not a definitive guide, but it can be a good starting point. |
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| The Wall Street Journal | Need we say anything about this premier newspaper? The full online version is by subscription only, but you can see headlines for free. They also have a selection of free 'sections' for online viewing, including StartUpJournal, CollegeJournal, and CareerJournal. |
| New York Stock Exchange | Get the latest stock information from the New York Stock Exchange online. |
| NASDAQ | Lots of tech stocks list with the NASDAQ. Find out how they're doing and look at market news, too. |
| Forbes.com | The online version of Forbes magazine. |
| Smartmoney.com | Smart Money is another of those financial magazines with both a print and an online version. Smart Money concentrates on financial and stock market news. It also has lots of market watching and analysis tools. |
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| AFL-CIO | The American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) was founded in 1955. It is a federation of unions that represents more than 13 million working men and women. |
| UAW | The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) represents over 750,000 active members and 500,000 retired members. It was founded in 1935. |
| National Writers Union | The National Writers Union represents freelance writers working in all media, formats, and genres in the U.S. market. This union is associated with the UAW. |
| SAG | The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was founded in the 1930s. Its members early on were mainly character actors, but it has since expanded to represent actors on screen, television, and radio, as well as voice-over talent and other non-visible acting professions. SAG is affiliated with the AFL-CIO. |
