A great place to start! Provides more than 500 industry profiles, as well as brief state, province and country profiles, templates for communications, and more. Use short keywords to search for industries or click the "Browse Industry Profiles" to drill down from broad industry categories.
Use Mergent Intellect to look up specific companies (works best for large companies and publicly-traded companies, rather than private ones). You can also access the First Research product through Mergent Intellect, which provides comprehensive information on different industries.
The video below shows you how to get to First Research via Mergent Intellect and how to use it.
This website provides a wealth of information on different jobs and occupational groups in the U.S. You can browse by occupational groups or occupational characteristics, or you can search for information on a specific job (like computer programmer). Once you've selected a specific occupation, you'll get information on what people in that job do, how to become one (necessary training and/or education), salary, expected job growth, professional associations for that job and more.
Provides statistical data on industry, technology, consumers, society, education and more. Covers national and international data from over 22,500 sources. Can be downloaded in PowerPoint, Excel, PNG, or PDF formats for use in papers or presentations.
The short video below shows you how to use Statista:
