How "Good" is the Information on the Internet?

You can do research about almost any topic by searching the Internet. But how good is the information you find? Sometimes you can find very good information but there is also a lot of "misinformation disguised as fact" mixed in. There are a few sites that provide you with more reliable results because professionals have reviewed the sites they link with.

One of these is the Librarians' Internet Index, a publicly-funded website that lets you search and browse its website for the best of the Web. The site contains more than 20,000 entries, maintained by their librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics.

New Web Site Provides Information to Protect Wage Earners from Consequences of Disability

The Council for Disability Awareness has launched a website to help workers learn about and perhaps prepare for the consequences of a long-term disability. Studies show that 3 out of every 10 workers between the ages of 25 and 65 will experience an accident or illness that keeps them out of work for three months or longer. To help wage earners learn more about the realities and financial consequences of disability, their comprehensive site is one component of a public awareness campaign aimed at empowering wage earners with information to better prepare themselves for a potential disability and its financial consequences.

Dress Professionally for Professional Success

Women who are entering or re-entering the professional work force may have a bigger hurdle to overcome than the resume and job interview. Without the right clothes, and a comfort level in those professional outfits, that interview may close the door to the job. For women in the low-income bracket, this may appear to be an insurmountable hurdle.

There is help available, though. Three organizations in our area are helping low-income job seekers "look and feel" the part so they move from "interviewed to hired." They provide help in several ways, but finding the "right" professional look and comfort level to get through that interview process is the more unique aspect of their services.

Tailored For Success, Inc. (Malden, MA) specializes in providing career development services to low-income women who are attempting to enter or reenter the workforce. They distribute free interview clothing, provide professional image consulting, and conduct individual interview coaching and career development workshops. Their services are designed to bridge the gap between domestic violence shelters, welfare-to-work, job training programs, and the professional workplace. By increasing self-confidence through image consulting and career coaching, Tailored For Success, Inc. prepares women to enter the workforce and enable them to move from dependency to self-sufficiency.

The Women's Alliance is a national organization of independent community-based members who provide professional attire, career skills training, and related services to low-income women seeking employment. The services they provide ensure that low-income women have the professional attire and career skills coaching they need to make the right impression on job interviews and to succeed in the workplace. TWA provides marketing assistance to Tailored for Sucess.

Dress for Success Worldwide is an international non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of women located in 78 cities across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and New Zealand. Their professional clothing, employment retention programs, and ongoing support symbolizes their faith in every woman’s ability to be self-sufficient and successful in her career. They have a Boston location.

Community Resource Listing has moved!

Please update your bookmark! We moved the resource listing to its own subdomain at http://resources.maldensquare.org/ on 12/12/06. If you had it bookmarked, please update. Make sure you visit our main web site, as well, at http://maldensquare.org.

Headway Corporation for Job Search

Headway Corporate Resources provides recruitment, staffing, outsourcing, and professional development services. In 2004, they placed over 25,000 individuals with more than 1,000 businesses.