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Get a Great Job When You Don’t Have a Job

All the Information Is Right
at Your Fingertips

Think you’ll never find out anything about Company XYZ
because it’s too small, it’s highly secretive, or it doesn’t have a
Web site? Think again. There are people who have full-time jobs
gathering information (including information about extremely
private topics, like salaries of certain employees) on just about
any company you can imagine.
You can locate facts and opinions about companies in a num-
ber of ways:

• From company Web sites
• Through other research on the Internet
• From proprietary, or “for-fee,” databases
• From public, or “free,” databases
• From one-stop job centers around the country
• In public libraries, from their books, periodicals, and
computer databases
• From the interviewer, during the interview itself!

Can you think of any others? When you put your mind to it,
there seem to be countless ways to gather information if you have
just a couple of hours and the inclination to hunt for it.

How to Get Your Hands on a Computer
If you own a computer, you’re in luck, but if you don’t, you can
easily locate one you can use for free or for a small fee at one of
the following spots:

• At a computer café that charges low fees by the minute
or hour
• At a public library—for free!
• At a copy center, like Kinko’s
• At a local one-stop career center, if you qualify for
services

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