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Career Research for Companies and Industries
Library Guides
  • Career and Jobs Library Guide
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/reference/careers.phtml
    Web sites that help with career exploration, job hunting, resumes, salaries, and occupations.
General Directories
  • Corporate Affiliations Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/caf.cgi
    An important directory of 174,000 private and public companies worldwide along with their affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions. Useful in determining if the company being researched is a parent or subsidiary owned by another corporation. Includes sales, officers, employees, locations, and product codes for all divisions.
    • Location(s):
  • Million Dollar Database (Dun & Bradstreet) Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/mdd.cgi
    Million Dollar Database on the Internet (MDDI) from Dun and Bradstreet lists over 1.6 million in the U.S. Includes private and public companies with either sales of one million dollars, or 20+ employees or those branch locations with 50+ employees. Entries include contact information, executives, sales, employees, industry codes, business descriptions. Each firm is assigned a Duns number to create links for parent companies and their branches. Search features allow finding companies for viewing, sorting, printing and dowloading.
  • ReferenceUSA Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/referenceusa
    Includes access to major directories for residential listings, businesses, and nonprofits. Includes U.S. Businesses a database of 14 million locations and the Canadian Businesses of 1.5 million companies. ReferenceUSA business directories are good for locating smaller businesses and franchise locations. Both business databases include search criteria for locating private and public companies using criteria such as location, size, industry, headquarters, etc. Other directories available include the U.S. Residential database of 210 million households and the Canadian Residential database of 12 million households. The HealthCare database lists 675,000 doctors and 180,000 dentists in the United States.
  • CorpTech Online Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/corptech
    CorpTech profiles over 95,000+ private and public companies and their business units, as well as units of foreign companies, government labs, and non-profits. CorptTech covers a broad range of industries, including pharmaceutical, medical, biotech or software companies The types of companies included are private, public, partnerships, non-profits, and government laboratories. Beside contact information, the records include sales, number of employees, executives, ownership information, summary descriptions, product codes, SIC and NAIC industry codes, corporate family and history, and executive history. Records can be downloaded into Excel or pdf formats
Company Profiles and Annual Reports
  • Business Source Premier Enhanced Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/bspe.cgi
    Find profiles from Datamonitor using Business Source Premier provides easy access to specialized reports such as company profiles, industry profiles, country reports, market research reports. It includes articles from 2,800 magazines and journals in business, economics, political science and public administration.
  • Hoovers Company Profiles Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/hcr.cgi
    Company overviews include sales, employees, business segments, and lists of competitors.
    Access via LexisNexis Academic > Business > Company Profiles (on right frame) > enter company name > see References
    • Location(s):
  • Mergent Online Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/fis.cgi
    Use Mergent for a qucik profile of public companies, their subsidiaries, properties, history, joint ventures, debt and extensive financial informtion. Mergent maintains an archive of full image of annual reports going back to 1996.
  • Investext Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/inv.cgi
    Investext Plus contains research/analyst reports on companies and industries as well as annual statistical reports of industry trade associations. It contains over 700,000 reports, with thousands of new reports added each week. This research is used at top investment banks, consulting firms and law firms to monitor industry trends, track company financials, and research merger and acquisition opportunities.
  • Wetfeet Authentication Required
    Career resource for industries and companies that describes requirements, career tracks, job outlook, and compensation for various occupations and companies. Industry profiles and guides discuss trends, markets, major players, and jobs in leading industries. Guides to interviewing, job hunting, resumes, cover letters, international careers and consulting.

    Tutorial on downloading Insider Guides
    Handout on Wetfeet Guides

Industry Sources
  • Career Guides to Industries
    http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/
    The U.S. Department of Labor has career information for over 42 industries. Covers working conditions, employment, occupations, training and advancement, earnings and benefits, employment outlook, and lists of organizations that can provide additional information.
  • Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/na.cgi
    Check out the Industries section to find overviews, trends and leading companies in 52 industries. Company profiles also provided with key financial data on public companies including peer group analysis and performance ratings from Standard Poors.
  • IBIS World Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/ibisworld
    IBIS World provides independent, accurate, comprehensive, and up to date research on over 700 industries, including statistics, analysis and forecasts. Includes global industry reports.
  • Associations Unlimited Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/au.cgi
    Trade associations provide overviews of careers and list educational requirements for professions. This online version of Encyclopedia of Associations is a source for associations and professional societies from around the world.
Magazines, Newspapers and Journal Articles
Articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers will locate information about recent activities of companies, emerging industries and job outlooks.
  • Business Source Premier Enhanced Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/bspe.cgi
    This enhanced interface of Business Source Premier provides easy access to specialized reports such as company profiles, industry profiles, country reports, market research reports. It includes articles from 2,800 magazines and journals in business, economics, political science and public administration.
  • ProQuest Newsstand Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pn.cgi
    ProQuest Newsstand provides indexing and abstracting for 150 full-text titles, plus another 200 regional news sources. Full-text titles include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Barron’s, The Boston Globe, The Christian, Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other newspapers of record.
  • Factiva Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/factiva.cgi
    Factiva is a full text source of 9000 global news and business information, major daily newspapers, newswires, academic and trade journals, magazines, transcripts of media programs, web sites, images.
  • LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/lex.cgi
    LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference.
Minnesota Sources
  • Harris Minnesota Directory of Manufacturers
    Over 10,000 Minnesota businesses with separate sections for location, industry and product categories, along with a statistical section that includes rankings.
    • Location(s): Wilson Library Business Reference HD9727.M6 M59x
    • Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability
Nonprofits
  • Foundation Directory Online Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/fdo
    The Foundation Directory Online offers full-text search capability across a comprehensive array of documents and data concerning U.S. grantmaking. Over 80,000 unique funder profiles organize the latest foundation news, RFPs, job openings, publications and key staff affiliations. Program details and guidelines for funding applications are provided, as well as links to foundation websites. Additionally there is a fully-searchable database of 250,000+ 990s. Over 500,000 grants are listed, along with the ability to create charts showing distribution by subject, geographic and demographic focus. Foundation Directory Online is updated weekly.
  • GuideStar: The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations
    http://www.guidestar.org/index.jsp
    A comprehensive source of information about American nonprofit organizations. Search the directory to limit by locations, income, keywords and other criteria. Provides access to IRS 990 of tax exempt organizations. Limited free access.
Other Specialized Directories
  • Advertising Red Books Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/redbooks
    Competitive intelligence and prospecting data on advertising agencies and on advertisers. The Advertiser database contains information on nearly 18,000 U.S. and international advertisers who each spend more than $200,000 annually on advertising. The Advertising Agency database contains detailed profiles of nearly 14,000 U.S. and international agencies, including accounts represented by each agency, fields of specialization, and more. Previously known as Standard Directory of Advertising Agencies and Standard Directory of Advertisers.
  • CorpTech Online Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/corptech
    CorpTech profiles over 95,000+ private and public companies and their business units, as well as units of foreign companies, government labs, and non-profits. CorptTech covers a broad range of industries, including pharmaceutical, medical, biotech or software companies The types of companies included are private, public, partnerships, non-profits, and government laboratories. Beside contact information, the records include sales, number of employees, executives, ownership information, summary descriptions, product codes, SIC and NAIC industry codes, corporate family and history, and executive history. Records can be downloaded into Excel or pdf formats.
  • Kompass
    Resource Temporarily Unavailable
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/komp.cgi
    Kompass Worldwide is a company/product directory database on the Web that provides information on 1.6 million companies 50,000 product and service codes, 23 million product and service references 744,000 trade and brand names, and 3.2 million executives' names in over 70 countries. The University of Minnesota Libraries'license allows for 2 simultaneous users.
  • LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) Authentication Required
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/lex2.cgi
    Global directory information on private and public companies around the world can be found going to Business > Dossier Create a Company List
  • Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries
    Over 3000 U.S. firms with 36,000 branches and affiliates in 187 countries.
    • Location(s): Wilson Library Business Reference HD2741 .D57x
    • Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability


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