| As an independent human resource consultant you're | | | | Need to find a particular person at a company? In |
| always looking for contact information for the head | | | | the Google search box, enter the person's title |
| honcho at a specific company. You just know in your | | | | (surrounded by quotes), followed by the plus sign, |
| heart of hearts that if you could talk to her you'd be | | | | enter the company name (surrounded by quotes). |
| able to convince her that she needs to hire you to | | | | For example, I recently needed to find out who was |
| keep her company out of HR hot water. Good news; | | | | the vice president of human resources at Fidelity |
| there are a variety of tools online to help you find | | | | Investments. In the Google search box, I entered |
| that information. In no particular order, I've found and | | | | the following: "vice president of human resources" + |
| used, to some degree, the following tools to find | | | | "Fidelity Investments". Within the first three organic |
| corporate head honchos: | | | | listings on Page 1 was the name of Fidelity's EVP of |
| Annual Reports: On this site you can find the annual | | | | HR. Cool! |
| reports of public companies. Once you call up the | | | | Jigsaw: If you already know the name of the person |
| annual report, search it for Directors, Executive | | | | you're looking to find contact information for, then |
| Officers and Corporate Governance. | | | | Jigsaw is the way to go. Entering a person's name in |
| Lead 411: This site lets you search for companies and | | | | the Jigsaw search box, will yield full contact |
| people. A company search brings you to a screen | | | | information. Looking up a company on Jigsaw yields |
| with tabbed content. The first tab contains a list of all | | | | too many results to make it worthwhile to find |
| the executives in the company, and the second tab | | | | people on Jigsaw. |
| contains a link to LinkedIn. Once you log in to your | | | | Manta: Manta allows you to search for information for |
| LinkedIn account, Lead411 downloads the profiles of | | | | both U.S. and non-U.S. companies. |
| company executives to the LinkedIn tab on Lead411. | | | | Hoovers: A search of Hoovers led to a mother-load |
| If you're an independent HR consultant, Lead411's | | | | of information. Hoovers not only found the company |
| LinkedIn connection will be of particular interest to | | | | I searched for, but they also indicated that D&B |
| you. The test search I conducted on Lead411 lead | | | | (Dunn & Bradstreet) had information on the company |
| me to three HR head honchos, which downloaded via | | | | I searched for. The D&B information was available |
| Lead411's LinkedIn connection. | | | | for a fee, but the basic information from Hoovers |
| An interesting thing to note about Lead411 is that | | | | was free. |
| you can use it to search for privately held companies | | | | Yahoo Finance Searching Yahoo for a company is a |
| too. Although it didn't find my company, | | | | bit convoluted, unless you know the company's stock |
| ExtraOrdinary Assistance, it did find a biotech | | | | exchange ticker symbol off the top of your head. If |
| company I know of that's still in research phase. | | | | you do, all you have to do is enter the company's |
| Google Search: This is probably the easiest way to | | | | ticker symbol into Yahoo Finance's search box, and |
| find information about any company. In the Google | | | | you'll find all the information you could ever want on |
| search box, enter the name of the company you | | | | the company. |
| want information on, and surround the company | | | | If you don't know the company's ticker symbol, look |
| name in quotation marks. For example, if you want | | | | it up on Google. For example, to find the ticker |
| information about my company, ExtraOrdinary | | | | symbol for Charter Communications, I entered the |
| Assistance, you'd enter it into the Google search box | | | | following words into the Google search box: Charter |
| like this: "ExtraOrdinary Assistance". | | | | Communications ticker symbol. |