URLs can change over time. If any of the sites used in these Internet Exercises change, please visit the Turban Electronic Commerce 2002, 2e Companion Web site at http://www.prenhall.com/turban for an update.

Chapter 10

1. Access sourcer.com. Find information about software support for recruitment. Try the demos available at the site.
   
   
2. Enter phoenix.placement.oakland.edu and find the "Internet career guide." You will find more than 100 references to career-oriented sites, organized alphabetically. Use the reference list to find:
   • A summer internship
   • Job openings in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
   • A computer analyst's job in Hong Kong
   • Related software (Oak repository)
   • Information about job fairs in your city or state (careermag.com)
   
   
3. Make your resume accessible to millions of people. Ask careerbuilder.com for help in rewriting your resume. Consult jobweb.org in planning your career. Get prepared for a job interview (hotjobs.com).
   
   
4. Determine your career vision by exploring monster.com and careerbuilder.com. Also, use wageweb.com to figure what salary you can get in the city of your choice in the United States.
   
   
5. Use the Internet to perform the following tasks:
   
   • Sign up with Expedia and tell them you want to travel from your city to Hawaii. Wait a few days to receive low-price flight suggestions on your e-mail. Check their free travel advisory services. Write a report based on your experience.
   • Track a flight in real time (trip.com), by flight number, by airline, and by city.
   • Find the lowest possible fare for a trip from Los Angeles to Paris, France, leaving on a weekday, staying 10 days, and returning on a weekday.
   • Use Expedia's Hotel Wizard to find a hotel in London. Use the currency converter to determine your nightly cost in U.S. dollars.
   • Evaluate online medical advice.
   • Find a map of Jerusalem, Israel, a list of attractions, and an entertainment guide.
   
   
6. Visit homeowners.com, decisionaide.com, or a similar site and compute the mortgage payment on a 30-year loan at 7.5 percent fixed interest. Also check current rates. Estimate your closing costs on a $200,000 loan. Compare the monthly payments of the fixed rate with that of an adjustable rate for the first year. Finally, compute your total payments if you take the loan for 15 years at the going rate. Compare it to a 30-year mortgage. Comment on the difference.
   
   
7. Enter the knowledgespace communities at Andersen.com and go to eBusiness. Go to the Hot Issues Archive. Find information about exchanges.
   
   
8. Access virtualtrader.co.uk and register for their Internet stock game. You will be bankrolled with £100,000 in a trading account every month. Also, identify all the services offered by E*TRADE and comment on them. You can also play a simulation investment game with investorsleague.com or E*TRADE (stocks, options).
   
   
9. Enter wellsfargo.com and examine their global and B2B services. For each service that is being offered, comment on the advantages of online versus off-line options.
   
   
10. Examine the progress of consolidated billing. Start with e-billingonline.com, alysis.com, (go to money), and intuit.com. Identify other contenders in the field. What are the standard capabilities that they all offer? What are some unique capabilities?
    
    
11. Enter etrade.com and boom.com and find how you can trade stocks in countries other than the one you live in. Prepare a report.
    
    
12. How about building a Web site for your mortgage company? Try glyphix.com or masresults.com. Look at demo sites and sample sites.
    
    
13. Enter chicagotribune.com, wsj.com, and fortune.com. Find what information is available to customers. Compare the Tribune's offering with that of yahoo.com. What are the differences?