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Plunkett's
Employers' Internet Sites with Careers Information 2004-2005
Introduction
PLUNKETT’S EMPLOYERS’ INTERNET
SITES 2004-2005 is an easy-to-use
solution to what would otherwise be a complicated problem: How
can you tell, among all of America’s major employers,
which companies are posting the most useful career information
on the Internet? No other source provides this book’s
easy-to-understand comparisons of online data regarding treatment
of employees, current job openings, career paths, salaries,
benefits and many other items of great importance to job seekers.
Especially helpful is the way in which PLUNKETT'S
EMPLOYERS' INTERNET SITES enables readers with little
Internet experience to readily search each Web site for the
information they need.
Information is presented in a way that will
satisfy the differing interests of individual job seekers.
You'll find descriptions of numerous aspects of a company's
work environment.
While the book is aimed primarily at job seekers,
it will also be of value to researchers, marketing executives,
and personnel professionals. PLUNKETT'S EMPLOYERS' INTERNET
SITES is the only guide to the most detailed and useful
corporate web sites containing careers information.
PLUNKETT'S EMPLOYERS' INTERNET SITES
is your opportunity to become an online job search expert
in a matter of minutes. Five hundred of the biggest, most
successful corporate employers in America are listed in this
book. Their corporate web sites have been analyzed in detail,
along with other pieces of information gathered from a wide
variety of sources, and are presented here in a unique form
that can be easily understood by job seekers of all types.
Thanks to PLUNKETT'S EMPLOYERS' INTERNET
SITES exclusive data system, potentially confusing considerations
have been reduced to simple groups of focused data. By scanning
the data groups and the long list of unique indexes, you can
find the best employers to fit your personal desires. Can
you apply for a job online? Is a site searchable by geographic
region? Is there a search engine for types of jobs? Does a
site post specific job openings? Is benefit plan data available?
All of these things and more are made easy for the reader
to find.
Thousands of observations are made that will
be of great interest to the prospective employee. You'll find
comments about items such as size of the firm by annual sales
and number of employees. You'll also find notes about special
programs for the convenience of employees, such as health
and recreation facilities, job training or dress code. Finally,
you'll find basic information on each company, including the
home office address and telephone number, regional, national
and international locations, and a description of the business.
You'll even find fax numbers, e-mail addresses, Internet addresses
and toll-free phone numbers.
Whatever your purpose for researching corporate
employers, you'll find this book to be a valuable guide. Nonetheless,
as is true with all resources, this volume has limitations
that the reader should be aware of:
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Financial data and other corporate
information can change quickly. A book of this type can
be no more current than the data that was available as of
the time of editing. Consequently, the financial picture,
management and ownership of the firm(s) you are studying
may have changed since the date of this book. For example,
this book includes the most up-to-date sales figures available
to the editors as of early 2004. That means that we have
typically used financial data for December 31, 2003, or
for a fiscal year that ended during 2001.
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Corporate mergers, acquisitions
and downsizing are occurring at a very rapid rate. Such
events may have created significant change, subsequent to
the publishing of this book, within a company you are studying.
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Some of the companies in THE
ONLINE EMPLOYERS 500 are so large in scope and
in variety of business endeavors conducted within a parent
organization that we have been unable to completely list
all subsidiaries, affiliations, divisions and activities
within a firm's corporate structure.
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This volume is intended to
be a general guide to major employers in numerous industries.
That means that researchers should look to this book for
an overview, and, when conducting in-depth research, should
contact the specific corporations in question for the very
latest changes and data. Where possible, we have listed
contact names, toll-free telephone numbers, and World Wide
Web site addresses for related government agencies and industry
associations, so that the reader may get further details
without unnecessary delay.
- We have used exhaustive efforts to locate, and
fairly present, accurate and complete data. However, when using
this book or any other source for business and industry information,
the reader should use caution and due diligence by conducting
further research where it seems appropriate. We wish you success
in your endeavors, and we trust that your experience with this
book will be both satisfactory and productive.
- To obtain the best results and to best understand
the fields in the company profiles, you should first read the
chapter titled “How to Use This Book.”
Good luck in your job search. Be patient, do
your research, and use this book as an important start in the right
direction.
Jack W. Plunkett
Houston, Texas
April 2004
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