1.   Another plus to an online job search is that many companies use their home pages to inform and entice potential hires.

2.   Companies are now using computers to help them choose new workers.

3.   Companies often use details of education to plot out salary curves and promotion prospects.

4.   During the drought, water companies used water from the emergency reservoirs, gambling that normal rainfall would soon fill them up again.

5.   Electricity companies use it to switch off certain loads, such as water heaters, at times of peak demand.

6.   Many blue chip companies use team-based competitions with a series of mental and physical challenges.

7.   Many companies still use incredibly short payback periods, often set by financial directors playing a very risk-averse game.

8.   Many companies use Intranets to distribute internal documents-in effect publishing Web pages for their own private use.

9.   Many companies used to eliminate important features such as high resolution graphics or soundboard support.

10.   More and more companies are now using psychometric tests as back-up to the job interview.