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Tepper job search resources@ the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

Preliminaries - Library Services

• Tepper Library website - left side lists general library services
• Business databases – find those mentioned here (in italics) and more. For other topics: all databases.
• Online catalog: Cameo - Look here for ebooks, books, journals, etc.
• Online journal list – Check to see if a journal or magazine is contained in one of our databases.
• If you’re off campus, login here first to use the databases or ebooks
• Interlibrary loan – if we don’t have the book or article that you need

Get a list of companies:

• Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database – contains 23 million companies worldwide. Create and download lists with specific criteria.
• Career Search – get this through COC website – ditto (create your account first.) Creates nice reports, and provides contact emails.
• Hoover ’s Online – find a company you are interested in, then check “competitors” on left hand side; has selected international companies.
• US firms with operations in another country; also foreign firms operating in the US - LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations (use the Advanced Search)
• Private equity, venture capital firms, and the companies they invest in: VentureXpert - click on "Profiles" at left.
  • Thomson's PEHub has an MBA forum with listings of internships in PE and VC - free registration; school code: stadium.
• Technology companies: CorpTech Directory.
• Consulting firms:
  • Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory online (coming soon!)
  • Use NAICS code 54161 in Hoover's or the Million Dollar Database
  • For the most extensive list, come to the Hunt Library reference room and look at the Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory (HD69 .C6 C647.)
• Finance: see separate guide to finding jobs in finance
  • Also, you can u se NAICS codes starting with 52 in Hoover's or the Million Dollar Database
• See a short tutorial in how to use some of these tools.

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.
• Use MarketLine database – find your company, and then see the sections on the left – particularly the SWOT analysis and Financial Deals
• 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 at the top.
• LexisNexis Academic - has an extensive "company dossier" for thousands of companies. To get it, use the "Get Company Info" segment at the bottom left. All of the sections can be expanded for more information, including the sections at the left.
• Vault.com – from the COC, will tell you what it’s like to work there. (Password: game.)

Inform yourself about the company’s strategy and risk factors (primarily for public companies)

• Look up the company’s latest 10-K (either on the company website’s Investor Relations section, or on the SEC’s database.) Here you’ll want to check out these sections: “Risk Factors” and/or “Management’s Discussion.” (Quick search by “finding” the terms “risk” and “strategy.”)
• See top analyst reports on public companies on the Investext database.
• Use ABI-INFORM database, and search using keywords, i.e. “Heinz and strategy”

What’s happening in that industry?

• Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys: NetAdvantage database – use Industries tab at top
• IBISWorld - in-depth industry market research reports for over 700 US industries.
• Industry section of Business & Company Resource Center - use both the Overviews and Market Research tabs
• For articles on trends, and coverage of smaller, niche industries, use the “News Sources” section below
• Industry statistics from U.S. Census Bureau’s Economic Programs.
• More: our Industry Research Guide

(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 – industry news and journal articles from all over the world
• Lexis-Nexis Academic– has the most wide-ranging international, national and local news.
• bizjournals.com - business newspapers for major cities; excellent source for indepth local business reporting

Networking research: scope out someone’s background, or find lists of names:

• Marquis Who’s Who – quick, authoritative bios on 1.4 million people worldwide; get lists by categories, such as "marketing executives"
• LexisNexis Academic – use the “people” tab; detailed information from a range of sources
• Leadership Directories – public and private sectors, all levels of government, media, law, etc. Includes email addresses of contacts.
• Community of Science Expertise – researchers and experts from universities, government agencies, and R&D organizations internationally
• ProQuest – news articles on people from thousands of publications

Networking through professional associations: every job has an association that supports it, both nationally and locally; find yours:

• Google's Directory: Associations by Industry
• Googling key words (i.e. "finance association pittsburgh" will turn up the Pittsburgh Association for Financial Professionals.)
• *Special tip* - use the Marquis Who’s Who database to find executives in your occupation and your city. Then, look at their profiles under "memberships" and see what organizations they belong to.

Interviewing tips :

• Speed-read a book! Find one through CAMEO, using 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.
• Vault.com – from the COC (password: game), has downloadable books on interviews, practice guides, etc. Click on "Industry Career Guides."
• Tips for that first interview, from the New York Times Dealbook expert

More from the COC - presentations and workshops on the Self-Directed Job Search, Networking, etc.

Questions?
Contact the librarians:

• Roye Werner, Business & Economics Librarian, rwerner@andrew.cmu.edu , (412) 268-2453
• Everyone else at the library who can help: reference hours, link to chat, email, etc.