GREAT LINKS FOR RESEARCHING EMPLOYERS

Disclaimer: Career Services does not own or maintain these sites. We provide links as a service to University of Texas at San Antonio students and alumni.

Resources for Researching Employers

• Quintessential Careers - http://www.quintcareers.com/researching_companies.html  – information about searching as well as a directory to employers.
• The Riley Guide - information about searching the Internet for career information; includes help for targeting employers.  Very comprehensive site. If you are looking for anything related to career and job search, including something specific or unusual, The Riley Guide probably has it
• TUTORIAL Guides to company information on the net to help the user research information on both public and private companies using just the Internet
• Got an Hour? Get the Job! - article about researching employers from Vault.com about effective ways to conduct a job search.
  

• Best Companies to Work for in 2008


• VAULT online Career Resource Library - Career Services has opened the Vault. We are pleased to provide FREE online access for UTSA students to the VAULT online industry, company, and career resources library. We have arranged for you to have exclusive access to over 60 Vault guidebooks, over 2,500 company profiles, over 1,100 career advice articles, and an archive of over 1,000,000 message postings. Vault is the most trusted name in career information.
• Reference USA (available through the UTSA Library). Use this subscription resource to find information on companies nationwide. Directory of about 11 million U.S. public and private companies, plus 120 million+ U.S. households.
  
• Wetfeet.com - This comprehensive online library of company research and career-related information can help students make better career decisions. Resources include the latest job opportunities for college-educated talent. Includes the Insider Guides series of career management guidebooks, information on companies, careers, and industries; discussion, advice, newsletters and salary benchmarking tools. You're not ready for your job search until you've used this site.
• The Riley Guide - find employers you'd like to talk to and learn about employers prior to the interview
• Hoover's online - excellent resource for company and industry information. Check out companies for free in the A - Z directory. Some information from Hoover's is available only with a fee based subscription to the service. Directory with overviews of about 16,000 U.S. and foreign public and private companies and other organizations.
• Fast Company - search feature to find information and articles about leading companies profiled in Fast Company Magazine.
• JobWeb - company information from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, searchable alphabetically and by state.
• CI Corporate Information - robust site with extensive profiles on companies from around the world, US included.
• Inc. 500 - private companies are included in Inc.'s annual list of America's fastest-growing private companies. Also see the Hall of Famers!
• CEO Express - An intelligent site for busy people who know what they need. Very comprehensive links to business news, business magazines, company research, financial markets, government agencies, chambers of commerce, national statistics and a lot more.
  

• Weddle's Association Directory  - help for finding associations appropriate to your job search.
• Associations on the Internet - Search by category
• Professional and Trade Associations and Labor Unions - Career Info Net
• Professional organizations (on Yahoo)   - Very comprehensive lists of, and links to, professional organizations relating to career fields and industries. Want to get into a career field? Join a professional organization and network.
  

• Guidestar.org  - database of more than 700,000 US nonprofit organizations.
• Idealist.org - great information on organizations from Action Without Borders