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Before You Formally Approach Companies

So your searching for a career and you've finally found the career that you've been dying to do. Well, what;s next? Don't just rush over there clueless. Now is your chance to really impress the company you're going for because we all know that companies love to be loved. Do a little research, matter of fact do a lot of research on the company in question. You want to know something about the company from the inside. Secondly, you want to find out if you would enjoy working there. These are the minor precautions that you want to take in order to not have to do your career search over again. There are three ways to do some research before you walk to that dreadful interview:

• Friends and Neighbors. You need to go through your whole contact list of people you know to help you with this process. Once this happens, you will be able to find someone that knows someone who works at the company you are pursuing. Grab a coffee or arrange a meeting with this person to ask them anything you want to know about the company. This will be your most beneficial way of gaining information since it is first hand from someone who works there. 
• People at the Organization in Question, or Similar. This helps if you are not able to meet with someone face-to-face. LinkedIn is a great way to achieve this objective as well as emailing. If an email doesn't work, try going to the company in person and possibly ask them questions that you have. Now you want to preferably ask them questions that are in print somewhere so that it doesn't seem as if you are bothering them. I may also caution you to not try this with a large company; however, a smaller company that is easier to access may give you more success. Make sure that you approach the desk when you walk in as well because you don't want to offend the higher ups by walking straight to them with questions.
• What's on the Internet. In this day in age almost any information that you need on a company is on the internet. Therefore, using the internet will be very beneficial to your success of finding information the company that you want. You can simply go to the companies website and look for any information that you want and possibly contact employers through this process as well. So what if the company doesn't have a website? Well you can still type in the companies name and there will be information readily available for you. There will be people that have information on the company through blogs and other informative sites.