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D&E Career Services: Other Company Research

Following each element of content will give you the tools, knowledge, and strategy necessary to be successful at making a professional career choice and attaining the career or career growth you seek from your D&E degree

Before You Start Researching

Not all company information may be researchable, depending on the type of business, where they are located, or the information they choose not to disclose.

Salary Research

Glassdoor

Know your worth. Get paid fairly. Search for salaries in your job area, find companies who are hiring, learn about salary negotiation, and more.

LinkedIn Salary

Discover your earning potential with LinkedIn Salary. Explore salaries by job title and location. See how years of experience, industry, location and more can impact your salary.

PayScale

Get paid what you're worth! Using crowdsourcing and big data technologies, PayScale has compiled the world's largest database of individual salary profiles.

Salary.com

Use the salary, job search, and education wizards to discover salaries and available jobs for many careers. Includes a Resource Library with articles, webinars, and case studies.

ZipRecruiter Salaries

Real salary data from 7.5 million jobs posted every day to ZipRecruiter. Access salary data for 35,000 job titles. Use salary data to negotiate with confidence.

Government Agencies & Non-Profits

Career Research on the Web

CareerOneStop

Large amounts of information for specific jobs, information on resumes and job searching, educational opportunities, worker and employer legal rights and regulations, plus links to many other related websites. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.

The Career Project

A free, interactive career profile database. Research thousands of real careers through the people who work them. Get the "inside scoop" as to what it's really like to work in a given career field!

Indeed.com

Job search engine that searches multiple sites at once. Lets you save searches and set up email alerts when new jobs are added.

LinkedIn Jobs

Leverage the world's largest professional network to connect with opportunity. Use LinkedIn Jobs to harness the power of your network and get hired. LinkedIn Jobs surfaces insights such as whom you know at a company, providing you an edge in your job search.

O*Net Online

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, this website lets you take an interest inventory and a complete occupation list.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Published by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, this website is highly recommended as a place to begin your search. Short descriptions of hundreds of careers, lists of required training needed, likely salaries, growth potential, and more.

LiveCareer

The ultimate career, job, and college site, offering free expert career and job-hunting advice through articles, tips, tools, samples, and tutorials. Also offers links to job sites. Special sections for teens, college students, and all other job-seekers (by industry, geography, and job-seeker type). A comprehensive resource.

USAJOBS

USAJOBS connects job seekers with federal employment opportunities across the United States and around the world. As the Federal Government’s official employment site, USAJOBS helps the right people find the right jobs.

Work for Good

A nation-wide listing of jobs within nonprofit organizations. Search by job function or by focus area.

ZipRecruiter

Always know where you stand. Get updates on your job application every step of the way.