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Tips on Getting Background Information on an Employer When Looking for a Job
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The following tips are designed to help you acquire and use helpful information on potential employers as part of your job search. These include:
| | You generally can get background information on an organization, particularly a large organization, on its Internet site or by telephoning its public relations office. |
| | A public company’s annual report to the stockholders tells about its corporate philosophy, history, products or services, goals, and financial status. |
| | Most government agencies can furnish reports that describe their programs and missions. |
| | Press releases, company newsletters or magazines, and recruitment brochures also can be useful. |
| | Ask the organization for any other items that might interest a prospective employee. |
| | If possible, speak to current or former employees of the organization. |
| | Background information on the organization may be available at your public or school library. |
| | If you cannot get an annual report, check the library for reference directories that may provide basic facts about the company, such as earnings, products and services, and number of employees. |
| | Some directories include Dun & Bradstreet’s Million Dollar Directory, Standard and Poor’s Register of Corporations, Mergent’s Industrial Review (formerly Moody’s Industrial Manual), Thomas Register of American Manufacturers, Ward’s Business Directory |
| | Stories about an organization in magazines and newspapers can tell a great deal about its successes, failures, and plans for the future. |
| | You can identify articles on a company by looking under its name in periodical or computerized indexes in libraries. However, it probably will not be useful to look back more than 2 or 3 years. |
| | The library also may have government publications that present projections of growth for the industry in which the organization is classified. |
| | Long-term projections of employment and output for detailed industries, covering the entire U.S. economy, are developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and revised every 2 years. |
| | Career centers at colleges and universities often have information on employers that is not available in libraries. |
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U.S. Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics
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