Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) sets the standards and conducts inspections to ensure safety and prevent
accidents in the workplace. http://www.osha.gov
The Society for Human Resource Management is a key source of news and information
on HR topics. http://www.shrm.org/Pages/default.aspx
The Chicago Board of Trade, the world’s oldest futures and options exchange, trades
treasury bonds, corn, soybean, wheat, gold, silver, and other commodities.
http://www.cbot.com
Yahoo! Finance is a useful site for tracking the Dow, S&P 500, and other major stock
indices in the United States and abroad; it also has areas for financial news, investing,
and personal finance. http://finance.yahoo.com
The Occupational Outlook Handbook, published every two years by the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics, describes hundreds of different types of jobs, the training and
education each job requires, the typical earnings in that job, and more.
http://www.bls.gov/OCO
CareerBuilder.com, which describes itself as the largest online job search site, offers a
vast online and print network to help job seekers connect with employers.
http://www.careerbuilder.com
According to its Web site, Fast Company “sets the agenda, charting the evolution of
business through a unique focus on the most creative individuals sparking change in the
marketplace.” http://www.fastcompany.com
LinkedIn, which has been described as the professional counterpart to social networking
sites such as Facebook and MySpace, is an interconnected network of experienced
professionals from around the world, representing 170 industries and 200 countries.
http://www.linkedin.com
Intuit, maker of QuickBooks, Quicken, TurboTax, and other accounting software,
provides a small business information center on its Web site. What would you expect to
find here that is different from the resources a noncommercial source would offer?
http://smallbusiness.intuit.com