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	How To Find A Job -- Research The Employer


	Research The Employer Why is it important that you have information about an employer? The information that you gather about a company will come in handy when you go for your interview. The more you know, the better you will look to the employer.

For each company, try to locate the following information:

Services and/or products the company provides or produces

Age of the company and how it is growing

Articles about the company in magazines, newspapers, or on the Internet

Company location and size

What the career opportunities are for this job

The following is a partial list of resources that are available for your use in finding information about employers:

Employees already working in the field that interests you

Community organizations

One-Stop Career Centers

Chambers of Commerce

Yellow Pages

Newspaper articles

The Internet has easy access to many of the above categories of information as well as additional ones such as a company's annual report