2020: Looking beyond the company website: Developing business research skills

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Time: Oct 13, 2020 02:30 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney 

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Business research skills can be very beneficial. Whether you are researcher trying to identify potential companies for collaboration or you are a job seeker in a competitive job market, reliable information about a company, it’s executives and the industry it operates in will help give you a competitive edge.

As a researcher at Macquarie University you have access to commercial databases for company and industry research. This presentation is for those of you who are interested in learning more about these resources and how to use them.

In this session you will develop your business research skills by learning how to:

·       Locate information on public and private companies.

·       Generate lists of companies based on a specified search criterion.

·       Find details of the key people in an organisation, including executives and managers.

·       Find industry information and search reputable news aggregator sources.

·       Conduct advanced internet searches and gain some insights into the information you may find in the public domain.

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GR Supervisors

Mid Career/Senior Researchers

Graduate Research Students

Early Career Researchers