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The Job Search -
Resources You Can Use

First, two preliminaries:

• Find all books, library services and databases mentioned below here: www.library.cmu.edu

• If you’re off campus, use this first and follow instructions: http://www.library.cmu.edu/Services/remote.html

Get a list of companies in your field:

• Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database – create and download lists with specific criteria

• Career Search (get this through COC website) – ditto (create your account first.)

• Hoover ’s Online – find a company you are interested in, then check “competitors” on left hand side; has selected international companies

• Technology companies: CorpTech Directory

• International – use Mergent for public companies, or D&B’s Principal International Businesses - on CD-ROM in the Hunt Reference section. (Librarians will be glad to help!)

Find quick background on a company:

• Hoover's Online - includes U.S. public and private, and international companies; company leadership, history and description, financials, products, etc.

• Business & Company Resource Center – company basics, histories, and an excellent source for news articles – find your company and use tabs at the top for many features. Use “Article Search” for smaller companies.

• Standard & Poor’s Netadvantage – use “Companies” tab.

• MarketLine – handy and extensive reports on companies worldwide.

What’s happening in that industry?

• Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys: NetAdvantage database – use Industries tab at top

• Industry section of Business & Company Resource Center - use both the Overviews and Market Research tabs

• For articles on smaller, niche industries, use the “News Sources” section below

• Industry statistics from U.S. Census Bureau’s Economic Programs

• (What’s a NAICS or SIC code? You’ll see them used in all of these sources. They’re a numerical shorthand for industries. More info. here: http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html.)

News sources about companies and industries: (There is some overlap among these, but also many unique items in each one.)

• Proquest – contains articles in newspapers, magazines, trade publications and scholarly journals.

• Business & Company Resource Center – very specific news and journal articles from all over the world

• Lexis-Nexis Academic– has the most wide-ranging international, national and local news.

Good advice from those who know:

• Find books in collection through CAMEO – use keywords such as “interviewing,” “job hunting,” or “resumes.”

• Examples: How to interview like a top MBA : job-winning strategies from headhunters, Fortune 100 recruiters, and career counselors; Next-day job interview : prepare tonight and get the job tomorrow; The Harvard Business School guide to finding your next job; Heard on the street: quantitative questions from Wall Street job interviews; Vault Guide to international careers, Killer investment banking resumes, etc.

Excellent COC resources include Vault.com, Interview Mastery, and Wetfeet.