Week 5: Target Where You Want to Work
How to Target Your Ideal Company
Video Time: 3 Minutes Action Time: 30 Minutes – 3 Hours
Video Time: 3 Minutes
Action Time: 30 Minutes –3 Hours
When you first start targeting a company, you will look at their website. Most companies have an “About” section and vision and mission statements. Some other sites to look at are Glassdoor, Indeed, and Wikipedia. These sites will help give you insider information and first-hand experiences about the companies that you’re targeting. You wouldn’t meet up with your Tinder date without doing a little internet stalking first, right? It’s the same with your target company.
When you first start targeting a company, you will look at their website. Most companies have an “About” section and vision and mission statements. Some other sites to look at are Glassdoor, Indeed, and Wikipedia. These sites will help give you insider information and first-hand experiences about the companies that you’re targeting. You wouldn’t meet up with your Tinder date without doing a little internet stalking first, right? It’s the same with your target company.
Want to know the inside secret about finding your dream company? Well grab a pencil and paper and write this down. G-O-O-G-L-E.COM! We all know that it was your best friend in college. Didn’t you just love it when you found an entire test online? When you go to Google, find news articles about the company. This will tell you a lot about the recent challenges the company is facing or about the bragging that they are doing.
You may change your mind while doing research! That’s not a bad thing! Don’t feel locked into a company just because someone else is telling you that “company” is a good one. Choosing a company is like choosing your college classes. You don’t want to pick a class just because your friend said it was “fun” or “easy.” You want to choose what is best for you! You don’t want to spend an entire semester wishing you had taken a different class.
Want to know the inside secret about finding your dream company? Well grab a pencil and paper and write this down. G-O-O-G-L-E.COM! We all know that it was your best friend in college. Didn’t you just love it when you found an entire test online? When you go to Google, find news articles about the company. This will tell you a lot about the recent challenges the company is facing or about the bragging that they are doing.
You may change your mind while doing research! That’s not a bad thing! Don’t feel locked into a company just because someone else is telling you that “company” is a good one. Choosing a company is like choosing your college classes. You don’t want to pick a class just because your friend said it was “fun” or “easy.” You want to choose what is best for you! You don’t want to spend an entire semester wishing you had taken a different class.
Finally, use LinkedIn to find the company’s page and its employees. Use these pages to do more research. This is getting exciting because you are going to be reaching out to real live people soon!
But we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. Down below we have step-by-step instructions on where to go, what to read, and how to find your top 3 companies!
Finally, use LinkedIn to find the company’s page and its employees. Use these pages to do more research. This is getting exciting because you are going to be reaching out to real live people soon! But we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. Down below we have step-by-step instructions on where to go, what to read, and how to find your top 3 companies!
Steps to Success
1Choose a few companies that you are interested in.
To get you started off right, here’s a list of companies looking to hire recent grads you may be interested in working for.
2Look at each company’s website.
Most companies have an “About” page, or a vision/mission statement. You want to find out everything you can about the company. From what they’re about, to recent challenges and how they were handled, and what they’re doing right now. Really dive in on what these companies are and what they do.
5Use LinkedIn
Look up the company on LinkedIn and see the different types of content that they post. Later on in this program, you’ll learn how to connect with employees because we want you to reach out to real live people (unless you’re applying to be a mortician).
3Google each company to find more relevant information on them.
When you Google, you may even learn about the CEO of the company. If you find videos of the CEO, don’t hesitate to watch them to learn more about your future boss. A little internet stalking never hurt anyone! Be aware that no company is perfect and that all companies have problems. That’s okay as the most important thing to learn is how businesses deal with their problems. Are they really good at problem solving?
1Choose a few companies that you are interested in.
To get you started off right, here’s a list of companies looking to hire recent grads you may be interested in working for.
2Look at each company’s website.
Most companies have an “About” page, or a vision/mission statement. You want to find out everything you can about the company. From what they’re about, to recent challenges and how they were handled, and what they’re doing right now. Really dive in on what these companies are and what they do.
3Google each company to find more relevant information on them.
When you Google, you may even learn about the CEO of the company. If you find videos of the CEO, don’t hesitate to watch them to learn more about your future boss. A little internet stalking never hurt anyone! Be aware that no company is perfect and that all companies have problems. That’s okay as the most important thing to learn is how businesses deal with their problems. Are they really good at problem solving?
5Use LinkedIn
Look up the company on LinkedIn and see the different types of content that they post. Later on in this program, you’ll learn how to connect with employees because we want you to reach out to real live people (unless you’re applying to be a mortician).
The next episode is all about “Reaching Out to Your Top 3 Companies on LinkedIn”. See you there!