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Researching Organizations

The Internet makes it easy to visit company sites, get the latest stock market reports and explore hundreds of industries and professions. Below are Web addresses you may want to visit when you are researching organizations related to internship opportunities.

Business Jeeves - www.businessjeeves.com - Under "Company and Industry Information" there is a directory of links to many different types of corporate information.

Companies Online - www.companiesonline.com - Discover the U.S. companies behind the web sites. Search for information on 900,000 public and private sites.

Foreign Annual Reports and Company Profiles - www.tdb.gov.sg/forcoy/ar.htm - A directory of links to foreign and domestic company web sites arranged by country.

Hoover’s Online - www.hoovers.com - A database of 50,000 public, private, and world companies searchable by company name and geographic location.

Monster Campus - www.StudentCenter.com - Under "Career Center: Job Seeker Resources" click on "Research Companies." There, you will be able to access company information geographically by state.

Vault.Com - www.vault.com - Noted for its "insider research" on a wide array of companies. For each company listed, there is information on corporate culture, the "uppers" and "downers" of working there, and advice on how best to get hired.

Visiting Employers on the Web - www.jobweb.org - A multitude of links to information about corporations, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, museums, hotels, hospitals, and other industries.

Web 100 - www.metamoney.com - A listing of the largest U.S. companies.

Public Register’s Annual Report Service - www.annualreportservice - Links to annual report sections of company web sites. Includes online and free copies.