Home Depot [http://careers.homedepot.com/], Red Lobster [http://www.redlobster.com/], and Citibank [http://careers.citigroup.com/] are just three of the many firms that use online recruiting. Visit the Web sites for each of these firms and then answer the following questions:

1. How do these three organizations use their Web sites to attract and recruit human resources?
   
   
2. Based on information available at their Web sites, what additional data can you gather about each organization's approach to managing human resources? For example, can you find information about selection, training, appraisal, compensation and benefits, or career planning?
   
   

Internet Exercise The AFL-CIO is one of the oldest, largest, and most powerful labor unions in the United States. For one perspective on the role of organized labor in today's economy, visit the AFL-CIO Web site [http://www.aflcio.org/]. Then answer the following questions:

1. What are some of the issues that are important to members of the AFL-CIO? Summarize the union's stance on those issues.
   
   
2. What actions does the AFL-CIO take to promote its interests?
   
   
3. In your opinion, are there other issues, positions, or actions that the AFL-CIO should consider in order to best serve its membership?
   
   

Explore Further
The AFL-CIO is made up of dozens of affiliated unions, which are listed at their Web site. View the "Unions of the AFL-CIO" [http://www.aflcio.org/aboutunions/unions/] page and link to one of the affiliates. Explore this site. What is one of the companies or corporations that negotiate with the union you chose? (For example, Actor's Equity is one the unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO and DisneyWorld negotiates contracts with Actor's Equity.) How might that company's positions or interests differ from those of the union?