Plunkett's Companion to the Almanac of American Employers 2007: Market Research, Statistics, & Trends Pertaining to America's Hottest Mid-Size ... Almanac of American Employers Midsize Firms)

by Jack W. Plunkett

Plunkett's Companion to the Almanac of American Employers is the perfect complement to the highly-regarded main volume of The Almanac of American Employers. This mid-size firms companion book covers employers of all types from 100 to 2,500 employees in size (while the main volume covers companies of 2,500 or more employees). No other source provides this book's easy-to-understand comparisons of growth, corporate culture, salaries, benefits, pension plans and profit sharing at mid-size corporations. The book contains profiles of highly successful companies that are of vital importance to job-seekers of all types. It also enables readers to readily compare the growth potential and benefit plans of large employers. You'll see the financial record of each firm, along with the impact of earnings, sales and growth plans on each company's potential to provide a lucrative and lasting employment opportunity. Nearly five hundred of the most successful mid-size corporate employers in America are analyzed in this book. Tens of thousands of pieces of information, gathered from a wide variety of sources, have been researched for each corporation and are presented here in a unique form that can be easily understood by job seekers of all types. Purchasers of either the book or PDF version can receive a free copy of the company profiles database on CD-ROM, enabling export of company names, human resources contacts, and addresses for mail merge and other uses.

681 pages, Paperback

Published May 15, 2007

About the author

Jack W. Plunkett, author and editor of over 30 books, is CEO & Publisher of Plunkett Research, Ltd., a Houston-based provider of award-winning market research and industry information in printed and electronic formats since 1985.

A lifetime fan of books, Jack Plunkett says he always knew he would be involved in writing and publishing:

"When I was a very small boy, I would go on weekly family trips to the local branch library in Dallas where I would check out huge piles of books and plow through them as quickly as I could. Later, when I was a bit older, I would take the public transit on my own to the big downtown main library and spend hours roaming the stacks of reference books, magazines and out-of-town newspapers. I was completely hooked on data of all types by the time I was 13."

The Plunkett Research team focuses on industry trends and statistics analysis, and produces over 18,000 pages of proprietary market research each year. This research empowers strategists at top consultancies, professors at the world's leading schools of business, venture capitalists and financial leaders, as well as executives at the world's top corporations.

Plunkett says:

"The focus of much of our work is to look for synergies among business trends and see how those trends are going to change the world in the near future."

A life-long entrepreneur, he has won numerous awards and was recognized as a finalist in the "Entrepreneur of the Year" competition sponsored by Ernst & Young.

Plunkett is a frequent public speaker and lecturer on university campuses and business events, having recently made speeches in Singapore and New Delhi. He is frequently interviewed as an expert source by publications such as Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Investor's Business Daily; media outlets such as NPR's Marketplace, ABC News and CBS Marketwatch; as well as local and regional newspapers and national columnists. Jack Plunkett is a resident of Houston, Texas.