Editor's Note: This article is Part 7 of a 10-part series. Click here to read Stage 6.
You have now accumulated every key piece of information required to launch your job-hunting campaign, except for one thing. You need to identify the pool of employers whom you should approach with your idea, solution and user letters. These are the parts of Porter's Value Chain (read Stage 6) that are above you, and they are likely to have come from your conversations with your contacts.
Researching employers is easy. It is fair to say that of all the occupational sectors, the largest zone absolutely has to be commerce. The other sectors, such as education, religion or politics, are extremely well-defined on the internet. Your prospects in those cases are easily spotted by using Google, Yahoo or Switchboard with keywords.
Nuclear Tip: Make sure to insert your preference for location by selecting the employer candidates from the places where you have always wanted to live.
Prepare your list of prospective employers. It's probably best to do this on an Excel spreadsheet with names, addresses, contact information, dates and notes.
Your next step is Stage 8: Prepare Your Scorecard.
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