Career tool kit

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Financial Literacy - Careers

TOOLS AND RESOURCES

Career tool kit

Use these plentiful resources to help manage your personal finances in general, your career strategy in particular.

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Focus on careers

Self-help tools, tips and more

Whether you're job searching or already have one, these resources can help you estimate your
take-home pay, polish a resume, compare job offers and more.

Calculators

Work sheets

Audio/video

Basics

More reading

Glossary

Calculators and decision tools
•	How long until you become a millionaire calculator
•	Lunch savings calculator
•	What is your tax bracket?
•	1040 tax calculator
•	Net-to-gross paycheck calculator
•	Payroll deductions calculator

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Work sheets
•	Job offer comparison work sheet
•	Career assessment work sheet
•	Shopping for life insurance
•	Spending plan work sheet


•	10 reasons to budget
•	Daily expense tracker work sheet
•	Form letter for fixing credit report mistakes

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Audio
•	Tax-deductible job hunting expenses
•	Surviving a layoff with your sanity -- and savings -- intact
•	Fast, cheap career changes that pay off
•	Government jobs offer good pay, benefits
•	10 winning ways to land the job you want

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Video
•	Catching Customers with the Web

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Basics
•	Understanding withholding
•	Insurance basics
•	Savings basics
•	Tax basics
•	Paying off student loans basics
•	Retirement basics
•	More Basics

Bankrate resources

Archives
•	Overview archive
•	Take action archive
•	Spotlight archive
•	Poll archive
•	Money makeover archive
•	Calculator archive
•	Glossary archive
•	Work sheet archive
•	Audio archive
•	Video archive

Free newsletters
•	Frugal News (sample)
•	Weekly Roundup (sample)
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Outside resources

Federal government resources
•	Federal government jobs
•	IRS: Introduction to health savings accounts
•	Understanding new wage withholding and advanced earned income credit tables
•	Occupational Outlook Handbook 2008-'09 Edition
•	Understanding COBRA benefits

Educational resources
•	The National Career Development Association
•	AARP Senior Employees Resource page
•	Sloan Career Cornerstone Center (for science and information technology jobs)
•	CareerOneStop
•	Free resume examples