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All sessions are held in Room R2240, located on the second floor of the Ross building, unless otherwise noted. No registration is required unless stated otherwise.

November 2009

Jumpstart Your Job Search with Kresge Library Databases

  • Monday, November 2: 5:30-6:25pm - Room 1230
  • Tuesday, November 10: 5:30-6:25pm - Room 1220
  • Tuesday, November 17: 5:30-6:25pm - Room K4354

Pair your OCD Career Tracker with the appropriate Kresge Library resources such as Vault Gold.com, WetFeet.com, and CareerSearch. This class is useful for finding company/industry information for interviews, and also for compiling lists of companies to target for off-campus job searches. Does not include lists of job openings.

Kresge Library Industry and Market Research Resources

  • Tuesday, November 3: 5:30-6:25pm - Room 1220
  • Monday, November 9: 5:30-625pm - Room 1220

Introduction to the basics of marketing research, plus, MarketResearch.com, MINTEL, Frost and Sullivan, Global Market Information Database, TableBase, Demographics Now and more...Also useful for MAP

Kresge Library Company and Industry Databases

  • Tuesday, November 4: 5:30-6:25pm - Room 1220
  • Wednesday, November 11: 5:30-6:25pm - Room 1230

Great for strategy classes and for finding company and industry information for interviews. The company, industry and SWOT analysis information you need is in OneSource, Marketline, IBISWorld, Frost & Sullivan, MINTEL, MarketResearch.com, Standard & Poor's Net Advantage, Business Source

Refworks Basics: Using the University's Citation Management Tool

  • Wednesday, November 18, 5:30-6:25pm - R4354

Create bibliographies (easily!) for all your Ross projects. You already subscribe to this software as a Ross student. Refworks saves you time and aggravation, and no more worries about plagiarism or formatting footnotes-Refworks does it all and is ready to run at the end of your project in any bib style your Professor wants: MLA, APA, etc. It will also export citations straight from several Kresge Library and UM Databases.

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