LibGuides: Business: Finance Careers Resources

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Vault Guides (ebooks)

The Vault online resource collection features information on careers in management, consulting, finance, advertising, law and IT, as well as company profiles, rankings, and industry and profession profiles. It's a great resource for job hunting, internship seeking and career planning. Below are a sample of the kinds of titles you'll come across here. Don't miss the added content in Vault's Banking , Accounting and Consulting guides.

Vault Guide to the Top 50 Banking Employers, 2017 Edition by Derek Loosvelt (Editor); the staff of Vault
Call Number: Vault ebook
ISBN: 9781438171661
Publication Date: 2017
The Vault Guide to the Top 50 Banking Employers rates more than 85 investment banking firms with significant operations in North America.
Vault Guide to Finance Interviews, 9th ed. by Bhatawedekhar, D
Call Number: Vault ebooks
ISBN: 9781581319910
Publication Date: 2015 (most recent)
Vault Guide to Commercial Banking Jobs, 2nd ed.
ISBN: 9781438192444
Publication Date: 2020
The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for a career and getting your foot in the door.

Quick Links for Information on Finance Careers

These resources function for multiple tasks - informational interviewing, identifying potential employers, company background, executive bios, and industry news.

Refinitiv Workspace
For finance careers and job-seeking, RW includes public company financials, investment house reports and more. International coverage, as well as private company coverage. Quick looks at company overviews type OV [company name] or use TOPICS to find and customize what updates you follow on finance industries, business news and more. First time users register here: https://my.refinitiv.com/productregistration.html
Leadership Connect
Contains corporate listings, including financial companies, providing information on company structure and in many cases direct contact information, such as emails and phone numbers. Searchable by a number of filtering criteria. REMEMBER: Logout when done. Formerly called Leadership Directories.
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TIP: Use Search --> companies to narrow down your search, since this resource is a database of several non-business focused directores as well (non-profits, governments, law firms, communications organizations & more).

Gale Business Insights
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Use BCRC for career eploration in two ways - look up an individual company and get background informaiton and news organized by topic; or do an advanced search on industry overviews for preparing for interviews. Also, use BCRC for background on competitors, suppliers and customers.
Nexis Uni
The LNA company dossier section (located under Companies on the left nav bar) is great for company profiles. The Research People form on the front page is great for gathering backgound on top corporate executives.
Factiva
Use Factiva for background on international businesses, particular news, in both English and non-English language publications.
Scroll down on the landing page to the Newsstand: US section for the latest content of Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Barron's & more.
Business Source Complete
A search on a company name in BSC can yield news as well as SWOT and market analyses. Also search for industry overviews and follow the academic and trade literature in the various fields of finance.

Uniworld (international company directory)
This resource contains the online version of Foreign Firms Operating in the U.S., and U.S. Firms Operating Abroad, both which are great for job and internship hunters, or others seeking international company information.
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TIP: you can filter by geography, industry or many other criteria.

Research Help

Adele Barsh

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Business & Entrepreneurship Librarian

UC San Diego Library

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Dr. 0175R

La Jolla, CA 92093-0175

Subjects: Business

Don't Forget:

you have two other great campus resources available to you

PortTriton Resources
UCSD Career Services is for all UCSD Students, and their site contains two high interest resources for this career interest: Vault's Career Insider and Going Global.
Resources from Rady Career Connections
MBA students have access to additional content for career exploration, job hunting and interview prep.