Company and Industry Research

It's important to stay informed on the market, business trends, and company news. Use leading periodicals such as Forbes, BusinessWeek, and The Wall Street Journal Online to stay informed on what's going on in business and industries. You should also check out the U.S. Dept of Labor's Career Guide to Industries. This online guide features such information as:

  • occupations in the industry
  • training and advancement
  • earnings
  • expected job prospects
  • working conditions

The following sites also provide good information on industry, financial, and economic information that will help you analyze particular businesses and the potentially lucrative careers.

  • biohealthmatics.com
  • This is a portal for careers in health informatics (or medical informatics) and bioinformatics. Resources include links for Industry News, user forums, a Knowledge Center, an online directory to biomedical informatics books, and a Papers, Reports and Tutorials section. The biohealthmatics.com site is an offshoot Biomedical Informatics LTD, a health informatics consulting company based in the United Kingdom and is staffed by talented individuals.
  • BusinessWeek.com
  • Get in-depth perspectives on the financial markets, industries, technology, and the decision-makers guiding the economy.
  • Economy.com
  • Economy.com analyzes the impact of the world economy on businesses, consumers and financial markets. This site provides research data on such topics as Employment, Metro Area Forecast Reports, Incomes and Earnings, Labor Markets, and many more.
  • Industry Research Desk
  • This site provides tools for researching specific companies, industries, and manufacturing processes.
  • Lycos's Industry Research page
  • Customize your research by choosing Sector Summeries, City indices, Earning's estimates, and Industry graphs.
  • ValuationResources.com
  • This site has information on Business valuation publications, industry resources, economic data, public market data, transaction data, legal and tax resources and more. There are links to Industry Outlooks, Financial Ratios, Salary Survey, Public Market Data, and Transaction Data too. You can also find BizMiner Industry Market Profiles and Industry Finance Ratios.
  • Yahoo's Research by Industry
  • Select from multiple industries to view companies ranked by analyst recommendations,market capitalization and earnings growth.