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Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
http://www.library.ucla.edu/biomed/
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Get Information on Companies, Industries, and Trends
Investigate companies and types of industries prior to applying and interviewing. You don’t need to become an
expert, but being familiar with a company or market and its key points (well-known people in the field; top
services or products; recent news; etc.) can make you stand out as a candidate. You can locate information
about a specific company or industry, or read scholarly and popular press articles about an industry, company,
or trend.
Suggested Library Resources
Business Source Premier: Use “Company profiles” to view Datamonitor and Life Science Analytics reports
on the world’s largest 10,000 companies. These reports include brief overviews of the company, its history,
and current executives, and summarize recent mergers, acquisitions, and announcements. This resource also
indexes scholarly and popular press articles on business topics.
MarketLine: In addition to company profiles, Marketline provides profiles of industries. Industry profiles
include definitions of industries, analyze past trends and predict future trends, and profile the main companies
in the industry.
LexisNexis Academic Business: Search for companies and retrieve recent news articles, recent company
reports, legal and financial information, and a brief description of the company and its top executives. This
resource also indexes scholarly and popular press articles on a variety of topics.
Use the UCLA Libraries’ A-Z List of Databases online at <http://guides.library.ucla.edu/atoz> to locate links
to these resources.
Tips for locating information on non-profit and government organizations
Use Search.USA.gov at http://search.usa.gov to limit your search to government entities in the United States
(federal, state, and local levels).
You can also click “advanced search” on the main search page of Google <http://www.google.com> and use
the “search within a site or domain” option. This allows you to limit your searches to websites with specific
words in the URL. For example, limiting your search to “.org” will only retrieve results from webpages with
the .org domain. While this is not a perfect way to limit your search to only non-profit groups—anyone can
register a .org domain—it does help to cut out many for-profit sites.
You can also use this same Google “site or domain limit search” to limit to .edu, in order to only retrieve results
from educational organizations.
LIBRARY
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
http://www.library.ucla.edu/biomed/
Fielding School of Public Health Career Fair
FALL 2013
Research trends in employment in your chosen career
Know the typical tasks of a job title, typical salaries, and demand for a career so you can carefully evaluate job
descriptions and job offers.
The Occupational Outlook Handbook http://www.bls.gov/OCO/
Published each year by the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, this includes information that can be useful in
many parts of a job search. Search broad classes of employment to see specific job titles. Once you have
located a title of interest, read about the job: qualifications needed, typical tasks and duties, current
employment levels and projected future employment, and average earnings. Entries also include links to
relevant groups/organizations that provide oversight, training, or credentialing for specific occupations.
State of California’s LaborMarketInfo http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/
This site provides California-level data, but is similar to the Occupational Outlook Handbook. Locate average
salaries, potential for growth, skills needed, etc., with California-specific information.
The Local Area Profiles, linked from the LaborMarket page, provide an even closer view of counties in
California, with data on fastest-growing professions, average wages, and schools/other educational
organizations in specific areas.
U.S. Job Bank http://www.jobbankinfo.org/
This site is no longer updated with new information on jobs and careers, but it provides links to Job Bank and
Labor Market web sites covering all U.S. states, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Locate data for new places to live and cost of living
Considering moving to a new town for a job? Find out if you can live a lifestyle you are accustomed to on the
offered salary, and learn about the characteristics of the town or area.
American FactFinder http://factfinder2.census.gov
This site provides “fact sheets” for many cities and counties, which include demographics, educational
attainment, housing information, and more.
Statistical Abstract of the United States http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/index.html
(Newest edition online; older editions in Biomedical Library Reference Stacks)
This resource collates statistical information from a variety of U.S. Government sources. It includes measures
of income and consumer expenditures, as well as a variety of other statistical information. As of October 1,
2011, it will no longer be updated.
Consumer Price Index http://www.bls.gov/CPI/
The CPI measures monthly changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative grouping of
goods and services. While it does not state that “one area is more expensive than another,” it can provide data
to allow you to make an informed decision.