Working smart is key to any successful job search campaign. One of the important elements of working smarter is having the right industry and market intelligence at your fingertips. On this page you have access to some of the very best online business research services available today. It's fast and easy to get started. Just click on any one of the following information services for more information and instructions. (Be sure to have your password and user ID ready for each service.)

Dun & Bradstreet

D&B Million Dollar Database provides information on over 1,250,000 U.S. leading public and private businesses. Company information includes industry information with up to 24 individual 8-digit SICs, size criteria (employees and annual sales), type of ownership, principal executives and biographies. The D&B Million Dollar Database gives you the capability to obtain pertinent business information on companies throughout the United States . The program's powerful search capabilities to help you:

Find specific companies, or search by specific industries
Size new markets by using multiple selection criteria
List prospective employers in a targeted market
Identify key decision-makers so you can contact them directly

CareerSearch

CareerSearch is a powerful on-line employment research tool with a database of almost a million employers from every major sector of the business and academic worlds. How CareerSearch can help with your employment research?

Focus - Choose from major industry categories and move down through logical subgroups until you find the specific industry category, product or service you are seeking.

Discover - Interested in a specific company and its products and services? You can go directly to the listing, then, broaden your search to access competitors of the company or find companies within a related industry that you may not have considered.

Target - If you live in a metropolitan area, you may easily be within driving distance of multiple states and telephone area codes. With Career Search's unique distance from a Zip Code function, you simply tell the program where you live and how far you are willing to travel; the program does the rest.

Profile - You decide the size of the company -- large, medium or small. Define the company size in meaningful, useful terms such as- hospitals by beds, banks by assets, advertising agencies by billings, colleges by enrollment, etc.

OneSource

Global Business Browser is the ultimate resource for international business and financial information. Ready-to-use information, integrated from premier data sources, gives you the edge you need to compete in established and emerging global markets. Global Business Browser features let you:

Evaluate industries across country boundaries, with data to help you size a market, identify top participants, or review articles on market share and trends.
Compare public and private companies in each geography using business summaries, recent news and articles, financial reports, corporate affiliations data, executive biographies and corporate family information.
Track the latest news and product information on your competition.
Identify companies by specific location, lines of business and size.
Research a topic and find the latest news, articles and research reports.
Learn who's who in the worldwide executive arena.
Global Business Browser gives you a complete range of corporate and industry information, including company profiles, news, business and trade articles, research reports, executive profiles, industry intelligence and financial data.