Job Research Sites

A successful search begins with research; which leads to the right decisions concerning your career path. On these sites you'll find information on specific companies, careers, cities, and salary information that can help you make the right choice.

BCC Recruiting Companies
Here you'll find many of the companies the BCC has successfully recruited with at Carlson.

American Express
Best Buy Comapny, Inc.
Cargill, Inc.
Carlson Comapnies, Inc.
Dain Rauscher
Deloitte and Touche Consulting
Ecolab, Inc.
General Mills, Inc.
Guidant Corporation

Honeywell International
Medtronic Inc.
The Pepsi Bottling Group
Polaris Industries
Sun Microsystems
The St. Paul Companies
Target Corporation
US Bankcorp

Company Research

6 Figure Jobs.com
6FigureJobs provides executives and experienced professionals with access to some of the most exclusive executive jobs, executive recruiters and career
management tools available.

Corporate Information
Reserach companies by name, industry or region. Get detailed reports, stock infomration, related articles, and much more.

Edgar Database
The Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Hoover's Online
Makes it possible to research the top 2500 employers' profiles and Web sites.

MultexInvestor
Specializes in comprehensive research on over 12,000 publicly traded companies.

Quintessential Careers
Offers career and job-hunting advice, in addition to job search engines by industry and job location.

WetFeet
More than 1,000 snapshots of companies: history, business, profitability, and jobs!

Career Research

Best Jobs USA
If you are interested in finding a new job where you live right now or where you might want to live in the near future, look no further. This site gives you the authoritative employment information, job listings and career links for the state in which you are most interested.
Read about local companies who are recruiting and get insight from neighborhood hiring professionals

Campus Career Center
Use their web site not only as a tool to uncover global career opportunities, but also as a resource center to help you actively manage your worldwide job search.

Career City
The website for cutting edge careers CareerCity is specifically designed for those technical and professional people who are seeking the most demanding and challenging positions available today in their chosen field. Search careers by industry, and get tips on career planning.

CareerExposure.com
CareerExposure.com is a highly trafficked, premier online Career Center and Job Placement Service. Search company profiles using their simple engine.

City Search
This is a great site if you are trying to get a feel for a specific geographic area.
Find information on restaurants, shopping, arts and visitors info, even a career page. Each city posts it's own site, so don't plan on getting carbon copy information from site to site.

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2002-03 Edition
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job,
working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

Wet Feet
Research Careers and Industries by their "Comparison Table".

City Research

Best Jobs USA Employment Review - America's Best Places to Live and Work
This guide provides professionals with in-depth information on 20 cities that have the best
opportunities for employment.

Home Fair City Reports
Homefair City Reports™ gives you a FREE side-by-side comparison of two cities' cost of living, climate, demographics, and other vital information from a database that is kept current with quarterly updates.

USA City Link
The USA CityLink Project is a city's interface to the world. It is the Internet's most comprehensive listing of U.S. States and Cities offering information on travel, tourism and relocation.

Virtual Relocation
This city profile engine provides information on economic factors including cost of living,
taxes, home cost, insurance cost and quality of life factors such as population, crime, weather and education.

Wet Feet
Check out how different cities stack up against each other.

Salary Information

Brass Ring
Now that you have the job, make sure you're getting paid what you're worth. Find out
about salary ranges, benefits packages and more.

Job Options
Uncover the latest data and salary trends and see how your salary compares to others in your field. Determine the salary you would need to make in a new city with their Salary Calculator.

JobStar's Salary Survey
One of the largest and most complete lists of salary reviews on the web.

Salary.com
A thorough site with a clear and easy to use Salary Wizard that allows users to find average salaries by selecting both job title and geographic location.

WageWeb
View salaries by industry or job position. Great site.

Wet Feet
Search salaries for U.S. and international jobs using WetFeet's salary calculator.