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Peter Weddle is a businessman turned author and
commentator. Described by The
Washington Post as "... a man filled with ingenious ideas," he has
earned an international reputation, pioneering such concepts as Human Capital,
Career Fitness and 3rd Generation Internet Recruiting.
He has authored seven books, edited six others and published dozens of
articles in professional and trade magazines.
He writes a weekly column about online recruiting for CareerJournal.com
from The Wall Street Journal and a
bi-weekly column about online job search for CNN and CNNfn.
In addition, he oversees WEDDLE's Publications, the leading print
publisher of newsletters, guides and directories about employment resources on
the Internet. WEDDLE's
Annual Guides to Employment Web Sites (for recruiters and job seekers) are
published with the American Management Association and have been called the
"Zagat" of the online employment industry. Weddle is the former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Job Bank USA, Inc., one of the largest electronic employment service companies in the United States, which he founded in 1991 and sold in 1996. From 1988 to 1991, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of University Research Corporation, an international company with offices in 17 countries, which provided consulting expertise in all aspects of human resource management and development. He has also been a Partner in The Hay Group, and from 1985 to 1988, founded and then ran its workforce management and development subsidiary, Hay Systems, Inc.. In addition, he has chaired and/or served on numerous appointed boards for the U.S. Government, including studies by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Science Board and the Army Science Board. In 1988, he was awarded the U.S. Government's Medal for Public Service for his contributions to Federal research. Weddle has published widely on career and employment topics, including CliffsNotes: Finding a Job on the Web (IDG), CliffsNotes: Writing a Great Resume (IDG), Internet Resumes: Take the Net to Your Next Job (Impact), Career Fitness: How to Find, Win & Keep the Job You Want in the 1990's (Cadell & Davies), Electronic Resumes for the New Job Market (Impact), an anthology of international research and technology transfer projects (Plenum), and numerous research reports, graduate-level university case studies, and articles in such publications as Success, Leaders, Directors & Boards, the Army, Navy & Air Force Times, Healthcare Employment News, Human Capital, The National Business Employment Weekly, and Bottomline.Weddle has also appeared frequently in the media,
including CBS This Morning, The
Today Show, CNNfn, The
McLaughlin Group, Bloomberg Financial
News, National Empowerment Television
and WBIS and been quoted in The
New York Times, The National Business
Employment Weekly, The Washington
Post, The Boston Globe, U.S.
News & World Report, USA Today,
Money and other publications. In
addition, he has spoken to meetings and conventions sponsored by such
organizations as AT&T, United Airlines, Business
Week Magazine, Success Magazine,
the Young Presidents' Organization, the Society for Human Resource Management,
the International Personnel Management Association, the Professional Services
Council, the American Production & Inventory Control Society, the American
Society of Civil Engineers and the International Society for Performance
Improvement. Weddle is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He holds advanced degrees from Middlebury College and Oxford University, and Harvard University. He resides in Stamford, Connecticut. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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