Info about prospective employer

[rennie]

I've just seen a job advertised working for De Havilland... which calls itself the UK’s most comprehensive political, governmental and broadcast news monitoring service.

Their website is very low on info about them n what it is they exactly do. A search on google came up with an airplane manufacturer.

How on earth am I supposed to find out more about them to see if i'd be interested in applying for a position there?

 

[Pingu]

as them for a promo brochure\company report etc

 

[rennie]

do you think they'll give one out to a prospective applicant? it's worth a try I suppose... i'll email them!

 

[rennie]

I just emailed them.

 

[fractionMan]

They shouldn't have a problem with that.

 

[Streathamite]

umm...this is deviouas but worth it. ring them (NOT from your phone) and pretend to be an academic researcher, and grill them

 

[rennie]

They shouldn't have a problem with that.

They just replied with a longer version of the job description. It's more info but still not much about the company.

 

[equationgirl]

Have a look on companies house website (www.companieshouse.gov.uk) - there's reports and stuff on there (although you have to pay to get them, but it's not much).

 

[equationgirl]

Here's a document about the information products they provide:

http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/news/dehavilland.pdf

This gives you some information about the company, from the Companies House website:

http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/92035af03b4fccbb9f5021cbd6829b09/compdetails

Looks like they could be part of the EMAP publishing group - try them for annual report, De Havilland should be in there.

Hope this helps, what's the job doing?

 

[rennie]

thanks equationgirl... it's for a political researcher post.

 

[rennie]

Oh and yeah, they were bought by emap a few years ago.

 

[equationgirl]

If you could get a shot of their politics database, that might be worth doing, then you can see the types of information they use and the format they post in. Plus it shows you've done your homework.

You were right about their website being a bit light on info though - barely anything there!

 

[rennie]

isn't it just!