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Village.com
A sharp, snazzy and little-bit-sassy site designed especially to
help women work their way up the corporate ladder. From Yahoo and
Women's Wire, a wonderful model for how to communicate
person-to-person online.
JAN on the Web
The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is an
international consulting service that provides information about job
accommodations and the employability of people with disabilities. Providing information regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), it also covers Canadian issues in English and French.
ASA
The online site of the American Staffing Association, it is a central source of HR information and opinion for members and non-members alike.
The Dilbert Zone
Anyone in human resources should check out this delightful -- and insightful -- site. Scott Adams peers into our world and reflects it back -- simply and clearly -- in all its insanity and humanity. A new strip every day, the Dilbert Store and Dilbert's Daily Mental Workout. You gotta laugh.
The Salary Calculator
This is a smart tool for multilocation HR pros. It quickly calculates and compares the cost of living between hundreds of U.S. and international cities. Now , when applicants ask, "What's the real cost of moving?", you can answer.
SHRM Online
The home page of the Society for Human Resource Management, "the leading voice of the human resource profession," this is an excellent source for all the latest news in the industry. Updates on government issues, student services, HR Magazine articles and a membership directory.
How Far Is It?
This service uses the University of Michigan Geographic Name Server and a supplementary database of world cities to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places.
The Universal Currency ConverterTM
The Universal Currency ConverterTM allows you to perform
interactive foreign exchange rate conversion on the Internet. Type
the amount of source currency in the input box. Select the source
and destination currencies using the scrolling selection boxes.
This interactive site converts unit measures such as length, area, volume, mass, temperature and others to their equivalents in other systems (e.g., yards to meters).
Local Times Around the World
This guide attempts to list all of the
world's countries, and many of its islands, with a pointer to the
local time in the region. Times quoted as UTC offsets do not
consider Daylight Savings Time. Except for the Pacific and Caribbean
islands, islands are often included with either the sovereign
country listing or the nearest continent.
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