The Monthly Newsletter for Web Professionals
Volume 7 Issue 07 - July 2005
Letter from the Executive Editor
By Bill Cullifer
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
-- Motivational author Napoleon Hill
Those are some good words, words that we have taken to heart here at WOW. We try never to wait until the time is “just right.” If an idea pops into our collective heads, we jump on it. If it doesn’t work, we try something else.
Well, whatever we’ve been trying must be working. I recently received a call from RTI International, an independent, nonprofit, North Carolina research outfit that does work for government and private industry, asking for our help. RTI is working with the Department of Labor to develop O*NET http://onet.rti.org/, the Occupational Information Network, which is a comprehensive database of worker attributes and job characteristics. It will replace the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) as the nation's primary source of occupational information.
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