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Originally Posted by willtel
This is bunk. It may give management a warm and fuzzy feeling that you know the standing of the company but it does nothing to further your development in the field you work in. My company makes everything from cattle feed to plastic pellets used for injection molding and I can't possibly keep abreast of how all our divisions are doing. We are also privately held so financial data isn't shared with employees or the public. None of it matters anyway, my job is no different if I am working for the US government or the mafia. Data is data and it is my job to make sure it is available, not to understand what it is used for. All you need to know is that the company makes widgets and the only financial data you should research is your own IT budget, everything else is just corporate fodder that removes your focus from the job at hand.
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If you don't have any idea how the company is doing financially - how do you know if this job you're applying for (hypothetically) is right to take and will be there for more than a day or two?
Private companies can pose a difficulty in finding data but my example was just that, an example. The idea is for a candidate to show an interest in understanding the company's position in the market. A potential employee who does not do that or does not care - to me - is someone I would consider less. It is a lot to do with attitude and tying your own success to that of the organization's.
Two positions I am looking at (this one included) are faith-based non-profits. Hard to get all the information up front on them...