Job Title: Temp
Location: Austin,
Submitted on: 26-Feb-04
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Hoovers provides printed and on-line business reports on 40, 000 firms
mianly in North America. Their clinets are salesmen seeking to sell to
those firms and their executives. Hoovers has about 150 employees in
the fiels of ediotrial (the people that gather and write-up data), IT,
and sales. They have a small staff of non-professional workers as
well. Their headquarters is in renovated comerical backery in north
cnetreal Austin.
Hoovers is a rapid paced data mine. I worked as a contract worker
during their huge database expansion. Dress is casual. Teams often
take breaks in the afternoon to play games (like badmitten). Hours are
flexible. They expect workers to produce, which involes cold-calling,
a great deal of web searching, and library research. Hoovers biggest
flaw is that they are slow to review one's work, so that weeks may go
by while you make the smae mistake several times and then have to fix
them. Training is mainly on the job.
Typical Hoovers' employees are smart long-time Austin residents. Many
write, play in bands or are active in the community. Hoovers
encourages this sort of activity nad provides craft fairs for people to
sell their art and crafts.
Hoovers brings in great food, and there are free bagles on Friday
mornings. Poeple work eraly and late and hard.
Dun and Bradstreet acquired Hoovers in 2003, however it maintins its
own corporate culture.
Advancement is not easy to come by right now. The jobs are much sought
after. They are dangled in front of temporary workers to get more
productivity. If they were hiring right now, I would be setting in
thier HR office instead of filling out this survey.
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