Finding Info About Companies

Submitted by jay2k
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Career Management

I'm currently updating my resume and beggining a job search and one item that I struggle with is finding information about companies.

I always do visit the companies website to find information and also conduct Google searches on the company to find any recent news.

In this tough economical time, one thing I also try to determine is the financial health of the organization.  If the company is publicly traded, then I usually check out any information on Yahoo Finance. 

Unfortunately, when it is a private company I do not know of a lot of good places to look for this information.  Does anyone use a regular battery of sites to find this information or other information about private companies?

Also, are there other sites for publicly traded companies I could look at?

Looking forward to your posts,

Sincerely,

Jay2k

Submitted by John Hack on Thursday February 25th, 2010 9:08 am

The company 10K and 10Q reports are worth reading carefully if you're concerned about a public company's health. 
Private companies are tougher.  Try networking - does someone you know, know someone who has info?  
Finally, think industry:  is the industry / sector growing (energy) or shrinking (newspapers)?  
John Hack

Submitted by Jerel Bonner on Friday February 26th, 2010 8:12 am

Try Hoovers Database, you may have to pay for an account or find someone that has one to do the search for you.
http://www.hoovers.com/
Awesome for information about companies public and private.
JHB "00"