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The Quintessential Guide to Job-Hunting on the Internet
Chapter 3: Researching Companies on the Internet

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You’ve identified the career, occupation, and/or industry in which you think you’d be happy. Now it’s time to develop a list of specific companies that you’d like to target in your job search. The Internet is an excellent resource for to learn more about specific companies, their cultures, values, locations, types of positions they offer, and much more.

At the most basic level, use search engines to type in the name of specific companies you want to learn more about through exploring their Web pages. You can use the Search Engines page of Quintessential Careers to do this type of searching.

Quintessential Careers: Guide to Researching Companies provides a wide variety of resources for exploring companies and industries. You should also read, Step-by-Step Guide to Researching Companies.

Searching for Company Information is an extremely comprehensive guide that addresses questions usually asked in a company analysis. Especially helpful in offering tips for finding info about private companies.

Wetfeet.com provides more than 1,600 snapshots of companies: history, business, profitability, and jobs.

Vault.com is another popular site for company profiles.

Hoover's Online offers searchable databases of company and industry information. The Hoover's site is most useful as a specialized search engine for locating corporate Web sites. Also has job listings. Hoover's also produces, Company Profiles of thousands of major companies accessed through a subscription fee. However, free (but abbreviated) versions of the Profiles are available free.

EDGAR Database is a financial/investor-oriented company database.

Xplore Business has links to several of the databases listed above and some additional sites helpful for researching companies and industries.

Articles that are useful for conducting company research: Researching Employers through Informational Interviews

Informational Interviewing Questions that Facilitate Company Research

http://www.quintcareers.com/job_shadowing.html

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