Even the most targeted ad generates a flood of résumés from people who have
not researched our company or prequalified themselves.
Overall, Apple's dividend resume is full of holes, and normally I would
not research the company beyond this point.
For someone who has
not researched a company, it is not readily apparent whether a decline in shares is temporary or permanent.
An investor can
not research Company A and determine that the price of the stock should be $ 80 when it is trading at $ 50 and make a $ 30 risk - free return.
Not researching the company Once you finally have an interview scheduled, you need to stay on your toes to make sure you ace it.
While these salutations sound formal, they're actually incredibly vague and show that you haven't researched the company very well.
Many do
not research the company before they get to the interview.
If you don't research the company prior to applying for openings, you don't know the company well enough to apply for positions.
A few years ago, on more than one occasion, I was hired by a supply chain executive who didn't research companies, didn't ask the right questions and just leapt at offers.
If you research «job interview mistakes» and all its variations and related ideas online, you find a lot of things: the importance of your body language during job interviews; Make - or - Break Interview Mistakes that include not dressing appropriately, offering too much information, or being too friendly with the interviewer; and things like not asking meaningful questions because you didn't research the company.
«They have a poorly written resume without tangible accomplishments, they don't research the company they are interviewing with, they show up to an interview without questions, they don't send a follow up note and they lack enthusiasm overall about the opportunity,» says Lauren Holzer, a recruiting manager for Vocus, a software company.
Not exact matches
«That's
not something that we had originally set out to do, but over time we got such an overwhelming amount of demand from larger
companies,» says Josh Emig, WeWork's head of
research.
But after doing its own
research, Intel found that women weren't any more eager to leave the
company than the men were.
The team has raised $ 2 million from a series of angel investors, and the
company is based in NASA
Research Park in Mountain View, California,
not far from Google's headquarters.
Part of the problem is that, compared to the
company's competitors, Dell simply hasn't spent enough on
research and development.
Our focus as a
company has
not and will
not change: We remain committed to moving the science of cognitive training forward and contributing meaningfully to the field's community and body of
research.»
And if you're fresh out college, you might do well to look hard at startups for your next job,
not only because they need your talents, but also because
research suggests that's where the jobs are, and they're likely to pay you better than a big
company.
So when her
research revealed there wasn't yet much demand for loose - leaf tea among consumers, she didn't see it as a drawback but rather as an opportunity to establish first - mover advantage — especially since there were no major
companies devoted to selling the stuff.
Not only is it true that «a full 20 percent of CEOs on Inc. magazine's 500 fastest - growing private
companies list indicated that they continued to work a paying job long after founding their organization,» Raffiee explains in a write - up of the
research, but many of our entrepreneurial icons actually waded into starting up slowly, keeping a corporate job for quite awhile while they tested the waters.
This means that it's
not only a popular way for consumers to browse and
research products but also a way to get in touch with
companies.
The
company, founded in 2009, has developed a large clientele of academic
research institutions, space agencies, mining firms and defence departments for its signature yellow - and - black products, thanks in part to the fact that Clearpath robots don't need someone holding a remote control to operate them.
The Council for Education and
Research on Toxics — the group behind the lawsuit — wanted to penalize
companies for
not warning customers that coffee contains acrylamide, a chemical that California lists as one «known to cause cancer.»
Vicki Bryan, senior analyst of independent
research for bond - rating
company Gim me Credit, said Valeant's problems aren't over with the termination of its relationship with Philidor.
Not just for aesthetic reasons, but because the forward - thinking
company is well aware of all the
research that shows spending time in nature is good for our attention, creativity, and mood.
They used this bottom - up
research when pitching investors on their product Premama, a prenatal vitamin drink that the
company says doesn't have digestive side effects.
I decided to bootstrap my current
company because the business model didn't require enormous amounts of capital or extensive
research and development — and because bootstrapping made us be more creative and smarter about how we tested ideas.
«If you do a little
research ahead of time on what
companies are going to be there and then you go in with specific questions, it shows them that you're
not just the average conference attendee.
The team behind the announcement is
not the first to attempt something of this nature, and previous efforts by other
companies have been criticized for having too little
research behind them or focusing too much on detection rather than treatment.
There's a lot you don't know about intrapreneurship, but through my
research, I've uncovered a few interesting findings that reveal more about how supportive
companies are and how it can lead to entrepreneurial ventures later.
Buzzfeed also quoted Uber spokeswoman Nairi Hourdajian as saying that «the
company does
not do «oppo
research» of any sort on journalists, and has never considered doing it.»
That
research will be crucial: An earlier effort by another
company, Pathway Genomics, to create a «liquid biopsy» for cancer was greeted in September by a stern letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning that the agency had «
not found any published evidence that this test or any similar test has been clinically validated as a screening tool for early detection of cancer in high risk individuals.»
With the help of the Clayman Institute for Gender
Research, said Irving on Fortune's Unfiltered podcast this week, the
company has been working to ensure that internal documents related to processes for hiring, promotion, and reviews in particular aren't alienating any employees.
Making that money didn't require any stock picking or trading or even
research on individual
companies.
«I don't think people who use this are seriously thinking about the implications of LinkedIn seeing and changing their email,» Richard Bejtlichs, the chief
research officer at computer security
company Mandiant, told The New York Times.
Before I run down the main takeaways of the
research, it's probably worth pointing out that the vast majority of
companies are
not Facebook.
The secret these
companies are starting to catch onto is that crowdfunding isn't just about the money; it's a second - to - none way to conduct market
research.
This vacation deficit is
not that surprising, «when you consider that consumer confidence still hovers at relatively low levels coupled with uncertainty about the economy and specifically consumers» own job security,» said Laura Mandala, managing director of Mandala
Research, a tourism and travel
company.
Venture capital investment climbed to a level
not seen since 2001 in the second quarter, according to private
company research firm CB Insights, whose «Financing and Exit Trends» report for the second quarter of 2014 was released on Thursday.
Some of the strongest national brands and
companies, like BlackBerry maker
Research In Motion, aren't largely known to be Canadian outside our borders, and there was only so long the country's space reputation could rest on the shoulder of the Canadarm.
In 2013, he bought Bausch & Lomb for $ 8.7 billion — a key acquisition that reflects his preference for
companies with mature products that don't require extensive
research and development.
Still, new
research shows that productivity and profitability more often follow those leaders who don't sweat the small stuff and focus more on guiding the highest - level vision and strategy for the
company:
Not so fast, says JPMorgan, which argues the likelihood of a full rebound will remain low until investors get more clarity on Facebook's relationship with political -
research company Cambridge Analytica, and how much liability the tech giant has.
This can set you up also for more long term reputation rehabilitation by forcing a focus on Turing as a
research and development
company —
not a pharma hedge fund hybrid.»
For example, Rosen's firm Accountability
Research argues that IFRS makes it easy for unscrupulous
companies to recognize revenues when cash has
not yet been received — and even in cases where collection may be highly improbable.
As David Thomas, the senior director of industry
research at BIO, explained to me a while back, one the law's major provisions ensured that «
companies could go and talk to investors more than one time, and
not in a very formal setting like it had been structured before.»
And many of the
companies without policies said they choose to make appointments based on merit,
not gender — despite mounting
research that demonstrates a strong business case for more women on boards.
HPE hasn't said how it plans to spend the bulk of the $ 140 million, but The Straits Times of Singapore reported that much of it would go to HPE's new regional headquarters and to fund the
company's
research and development.
While Fredette's job isn't always glamorous (it involves frequent meetings with the
company's marketing and consumer
research departments), more than 50 % of his time is spent in the kitchen, where he experiments with flavor pairings, makes ingredients, develops recipes, mixes test batches, and yes — eats a lot of ice cream.
I've found through my own personal
research that a lot of
companies have blogs (meaning they know it's important to have one), but they haven't been updated in 5 months — or they're publishing short, 300 word posts that are read by no one.
But Shriver also called out
companies for
not doing nearly as much to facilitate
research and prevention strategies as they do for other conditions.