Job Hunting? Top 25 Companies for Career Opportunities

Glassdoor has recently published their Top 25 Companies for Career Opportunities. These companies are the highest rated for providing career advancement and professional growth opportunities according to employees.

Please check out who made the list: Top 25 Companies for Career Opportunities

Business Resource Center

Starting a business? Need help with a current business?  Looking for a job?  Business and Company Resource Center can help!

Check it out today!  Business and Company Resource Center provides information on companies, brand information, rankings, investment reports,  and company histories. Predicast’s PROMT and Newsletters ASAP databases are included. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.

Complete list of Journal Titles found in Business and Company Resource Center

The Business and Company Resource Center contains the latest information drawn from the following databases:

• American Wholesalers and Distributors Directory
• Brands and Their Companies
• Business Rankings Annual, 2000 through Present
• Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory
• Encyclopedia of American Industries
• Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S.
• Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State, and Local Organizations
• Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations
• Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries
• Encyclopedia of Global Industries
• Graham and Whiteside Major Company Series
• International Directory of Company Histories
• Market Share Reporter
• Notable Corporate Chronologies
• Publishers Directory
• Telecommunications Directory
• Ward’s Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies
• Ward’s Business Directory of Private and Public Companies in Canada and Mexico
• World Market Share Reporter

Top 25 Oddball Interview Questions

Preparing for job interviews? Check out this free resource Glassdoor’s list of top 25 oddball interview questions selected from the more than 14,000 interview questions submitted by job candidates on Glassdoor.com.

What’s interesting about this list is that each interview question was asked in a real interview situation at a real company. Below are a few examples:

Top 25 Oddball Interview Questions:
1. “What was your best McGuyver moment?” – asked at Schlumberger
2. “How many tennis balls are in this room and why?” – asked at Yahoo
3. “If you were a brick in a wall which brick would you be?” – asked at Nestle

See all 25 interview questions

Glassdoor has created a  library partnership program with us which allows library users to access Glassdoor’s company salaries, reviews and interview questions for 70,000+ employers. Just go to our Databases A-Z page, scroll down to Glassdoor.com to access a wealth of job hunting information.

For more help with your job hunting be sure to check out other resources on our Careers and Jobs InfoGuide

Career Insider

In today’s economy, job seekers need to be better informed to compete — from scoring a first interview to securing that final job offer. Career Insider (Formerly Vault Careers) includes a wealth of new content including profiles of today’s hottest industries and companies, up-to-the-minute news from Dow Jones, thestreet.com and AP — and “My Vault,” a customizable career management portal.

The new Vault features insider intelligence on salaries, interview and hiring practices, advancement opportunities and company cultures — for more than 6,000 companies, 200 industries and 400 professions.

Use the job board to post your resume and search for jobs. Join a discussion board to help with your job search.

Job Searching

With the unemployment rate rising in January 2009 to 7.6%, more patrons are using library resources for job searches. Besides using the library’s Jobs and Careers InfoGuide did you know Morningstar’s Stock Screener can also help?

When looking for a job, it’s important to identify your criteria. Where would you like to work geographically? Would you like to work for a small, medium, or large company? What industry would you like to work in? And maybe most importantly, is that a financially healthy company? When you take this sort of reverse approach, you can really dig down and find companies that you may like and want to work for.

So let’s get started with a company search using my preferences: I want to find a company in Illinois that has at least 100 employees and is in the publishing industry. (One caveat: The companies covered are only on the major exchanges, so that limits searches to public companies, but that still leaves more than 10,000 companies to screen from.)

1. To set up my screen I go into the Screen for Stocks.
2. Under General information I choose Location of Company, Illinois.
3. The next point is Number of Employees.
4. (A new window open with the quartiles. Don’t worry about the distinction between big and small. Morningstar has that broken down in quartiles, for some context on size.  Close this window)
5. Change “=” to “>=“
6. For my final screen setting, I find Stock Industry and set that equal to Publishing.

Voila! I’ve found four companies that fit my criteria. Now I can look at company profiles, access their Web sites, and find job openings.

Obviously, this is a far stretch from searching job sites and the classifieds, but for the persnickety job seeker, it’s something to consider. For anyone else, brushing up on company information before an interview is always a good idea.