Employer Research

• American Stock Exchange (AMEX)
• BigCharts (research stock performance by industry)
• Bloomberg.com (stock performance, articles and press releases for publicly traded companies)
• Career Builder.com
• Career Paradise (direct links to HR and Recruitment sites within corporate websites)
• Career Resource Homepage (An Award Winning Site Developed by a Rensselaer Alum!)
• CareerSite
• CareerWeb
• Companies Online (helps you search for over 100,000 public and private co. online)
• Corp Tech (Great resource for info. on technical companies)
• CorporateInformation (excellent resource for researching international companies by country)
• Dogpile (excellent resources & search engine)
• Edgar Database (the Electronic Data GAthering, Analysis and Retrieval System of the US Securities and Exchange Commission)
• Employer's Direct
• ExperienceOnLine
• Flipdog.com (Good resource for research + job postings)
• Hoover's Online (Excellent resource for researching employers and industries)
• HotJobs.com
• IdealFit.com (lists a vairety of job postings)
• Intellifact.com (business research on the web)
• Investor Relations Information Network
• InvestQuest
• JobWeb (National Assoc. of Colleges & Employers website)
• Knowx.com (includes link to Business Yellow Pages to locate business addresses)
• Market Guide (specializes in stock related info for over 12,000 publicly traded companies)
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
  
• Sciencejobs.com (scientific employment opps. in industry, academic & gov. sectors)
• Snaiil.com (employment site for biotech & related Fields)
• Thomas Register (American manufacturers)
• Vault.com (extensive employer database)
• Wall Street Research Net
• Wet Feet Press (Research employers, search company profiles, read articles and alot more!)
• Whois.net (helpful site to find company homepages)
• Yahoo! Careers (Excellent source of career info and job search database)

• Chamber of Commerce International Directory
• Online Chambers.com
• World Chamber of Commerce

• Fortune 500
• Fortune's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies List
• Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For List

Newspapers On-line

• Bizjournals.com ...check out: News by Industry, Talks & Rumors (by city), Top of the Lists ("biggest, brightest, and largest" by city), Small Biz Success and the Small Biz Toolbox Free registration is required to access some areas of the site.
• Business2.0...another excellent source of business and technology information
• BusinessWeek Online ... great articles from the print magazine, a selected browsable archive back to late 1995; a daily briefing section, and lots of info for the entrepreneur and investor.
• The Economist ...the International weekly journal of news, ideas, opinion and analysis.
• Fast Company ...great, non-conservative business articles-check it out!
• Forbes ...Daily news releases along with information from the magazine. Forbes is now requiring readers to register to read some articles on their web site. It's free, fast, you don't have to give them your name, and you only get their enewsletters if you decide to check the boxes (the default is you don't get any of them.)
• Fortune ... online version including the Fortune 500 and other lists.
• Inc. Magazine ... online version of the magazine for small business featuring many items not in the print edition.
• Money.com ...from Money Magazine - includes daily headlines to keep you in the know.
• US News and World Report ...weekly edition, archives, plus the guide to graduate schools.
• Local & Regional Business Publications on the Web ...prepared by the Baker Library at the Harvard Business School, this list links you to local business periodicals and the business sections of local newspapers in the U.S. A great way to find business information from and about specific areas.

• AdvertisingAge (Daily headline news in the marketing, online marketing, and advertising industries)
• Inside (Follow the daily news that shapes career opportunities in the media industry)

Building and Construction

• Builders Online (Daily headline news in the building industry.)

Education

• The Chronicle of Higher Education Top stories in Academe This Week.
• Education Week on the Web Daily round-up of education news and articles from around the nation. Updated daily after noon Eastern time.

Entertainment

• Red Herring Current business information for the technology and entertainment industries.

Environmental

• Environmental News Link Daily news digest for a wide variety of environmental media topics.
• Pollution Online Current news for the Pollution Equipment and Pollution Control Industry.

Health and Medicine

• Health News Daily New York Times Syndicate.

Recruiting

• Electronic Recruiting News Front page news on the recruiting industry.

Technology

• Computer News Daily New York Times Syndicate.
• Electronic Engineering Times Daily headline news in the electronic engineering and technology management industry.
• The Mercury News Headline news on technology trends in Silicon Valley.
• TechWire Daily headline news in the high-technology industry.
• Upside Today The latest insights on leading technology companies.