Business Insight Zone

Job hunting is hard enough — but this part’s a piece of cake.

Step 1: Go to our free “Generate Custom Lists” page. There, you can build a list of companies you’d like to target for your job search. You can refine the search according to U.S. metro area, U.S. state, or country . . .

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. . . by company size, in terms of employees or sales or both . . .

. . . and by industry, based on Hoover’s own tailored industry categories, or by SIC or NAICS codes.

Click the gold “BUILD LIST” button at the bottom of the page, and the search tool will return all the relevant results, sorted alphabetically. You’ll be able to view the first ten results in your search for free. Here, for example, we see the results for a search of software companies over $50 million in annual sales that are headquartered in Austin:

Step 2: View the individual records to find out more about companies that are relevant to you.

(Advanced tip: use a tabbed browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer 7 to open each relevant record in a separate tab, then work your way through them one by one.)

Here, I’ve clicked on our record for Borland Software:

Note the circled areas: you can click through to read more about the company’s business, to get phone, fax, and URL info, or to see recent financials. (There’s lots more available, too — feel free to explore.)

Step3: Review job listings on each company’s record.

(Note that the jobs listed for a company may be for other locations besides the headquarters city.)

Optional Step 4 — not free but low-cost: If you know the industry you want to target, you can get a Hoover’s industry report tailored for jobseekers’ needs for just $15. Follow this link to find out more.

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Easy enough, eh?

I’d love to know what you think of this method. Is it helpful to you?

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Category: Career, Hoover's