And to help set the stage for your search, career strategist and executive resume writer Stephen Van Vreede of ITTechExec.com highlights three of the most common scenarios where
a little knowledge of the company could pay off.
Not exact matches
With a lot
of knowledge and a
little money, one man made it his mission to help
companies get site visitors.
The first is to have an inexact
knowledge of the securities in which one is dealing, to know too
little about a
company's management, its earnings and prospects for future growth.
So with our
little knowledge of the Italian language, we manage to make an appointment with Morena, the owner's daughter, and her husband Raffaelo, who also works at the gourmet food
company.
Late last week, the Walt Disney
Company decided to expand our
knowledge of their inner workings just a
little bit, specific to the future
of their animation studios.
Thus TAM has less need to diversify than finance academics and traders, most
of whom study only markets and security prices, and have
little or no
knowledge about
companies and the securities they issue.
Analysts and journalists pay
little attention to these
companies, so their prices reflect relatively paltry
knowledge about the workings
of the underlying
companies.
For decades,
companies developing pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, or agricultural seed profited from the biodiversity and traditional
knowledge of other nations, often doing
little to share those revenues.
The defensive protection is less controversial, where advocates
of traditional
knowledge protection are trying to stop people from acquiring IP rights over traditional
knowledge — for example, if a pharmaceutical
company goes into an indigenous community, learns about the use
of a certain plant for treatment
of disease, does a
little more research, and then patents the
knowledge.
The problem with this big - firm model is that when lawyers want to practise on their own or within a small firm or
company, they quickly discover their
knowledge of how to run a business is as limited as their experience in ordering paperclips — that is, very
little.
I have
little relevant
knowledge about the situation to know if there is any merit at all and whether «the
company is fully within their right, which is also why your search in Google turned up nothing» kind
of scenario might be true.
The good news is with a
little knowledge of how the industry works; choosing the correct
company is a lot less complicated than it appears.
If you spent the time researching the
company ahead
of time, use that
knowledge to your benefit, but if you're uncomfortable with the conversation, just use short, pointed answers that leave
little room for discussion.
Companies employ interns to help them organize their information; the plus point
of hiring an intern is that they have substantial book
knowledge and can apply concepts with
little guidance and supervision.
47 %
of interviewers said
little to no
company knowledge is the most common interview mistake.
I bring to the table 30 + years
of tribal
knowledge and enjoy giving back to a
company all
of the experiance I have and make a big diff, with very
little training.