The Career Fitness Self-Fulfillment System
Work Strong in Your Pursuit of Happiness
Peter Weddle

Pump up the paycheck and the satisfaction you bring home from work.

This is the ultimate career guide for the 21st Century! The Career Fitness Self-Fulfillment System introduces a one-of-a-kind approach to career self-management. Unlike traditional job search and career books, it not only tells you what to do, but when, where and how to do it in order to achieve meaningful success.

The Career Fitness System is both a philosophy of work and a regimen of activities for implementing that philosophy in your career. The philosophy offers a revolutionary vision of work that will change forever the one-third or more of your life that you spend on-the-job. The regimen provides a unique set of daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly activities that will strengthen your capacity and endurance at work and thus the success you achieve in your career.

Whether you have three decades, thirteen years or thirty minutes of employment experience, this book will change the way you look at your work and what your work does for you. If you’re tired of being the victim of your career rather than in charge of it—if you want your work to bring out the champion who lives inside you—then The Career Fitness Self-Fulfillment System is for you.

The Career Fitness Self Fulfillment System will hit bookstores in October, 2008. You, however, can get your copy before it’s available to the public. Place your pre-publication copy right now and:

• WEDDLE’s will ship you the book as soon as it comes off press and
• Peter Weddle will personally sign the book before it’s shipped.

$24.95      ISBN 1928734472

WEDDLE’s 2007/8 Guide to Employment Web Sites
8th Edition

This is the gold standard of job board guides. Forty percent of the profiled sites are new, and 100% of the information has been updated. Plus, you get free site news all year long at WEDDLEs.com.

There are 40,000 job boards and career portals on the Internet, and this Guide helps you make smart choices among some of the best. Edited by Peter Weddle, the man the American Staffing Association called “the Zagat of the online employment industry,” it lists 350 of the top employment sites on the Internet and provides the detailed information you need to evaluate them effectively and select the right sites for each of your requirements.

Completely revised for this edition, each site is described in an easy-to-read profile, packed with facts about:

How long the site has been in operation,

How many people visit it each month and how long they stay,  

Its job posting fees and posting period,

The number of records in its resume database,

The fee for searching the database,

Whether the site offers automatic notification of resume-job matches,

And much, much more.

Plus, you'll get FREE site updates all year long at www.weddles.com.

In addition, the book offers two exclusive features:

a Cross Reference Index, so you can track down all of the sites with prospective candidates for a given requirement; and

the SmartSelect Process, a proven way to pick the best sites for each and every requirement.

This is indispensable information for corporate and staffing firm recruiters, employment managers and human resource generalists, and executive search consultants.
 

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WEDDLE’s 2007/8 Directory of Employment-Related Internet Sites
6th Edition

This is every recruiter’s secret weapon in the War for the Best Talent. With thousands of new sites listed for the first time, it is the most complete and up-to-date “Internet address book” of job boards and career portals available anywhere.

Completely revised for this edition, WEDDLE’s 2007/8 Directory provides the Internet address or URL for over 9,000 Web-sites that specialize in online recruiting. It lists:
 

Organized by career field, industry and geographic focus, the Directory is a “recruiter friendly” resource for smart sourcing online. In addition, free updates to the Directory’s listings are provided all year long at WEDDLEs.com.

If you're looking for high quality candidates anywhere in the global labor market, this book can help you find the sites they visit. While everyone else is using the same well-known sites, you’ll be able to tap the hidden gold mines of top talent online!

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WEDDLE’s 2007/8 Guide to Association Web Sites
3rd Edition

Where do “A” level performers and other passive prospects hang out online? More often than not, it’s at the sites of their state, regional and national professional associations. This is the only Guide available anywhere to this “hidden talent market.”

The members of professional, technical and trade associations are some of the best candidates available in the job market. It’s no surprise, therefore, that a growing number of these organizations are adding job boards, resume databases and other recruiting resources to their Web-sites. The challenge for recruiters is to find which of the associations offer these services and where they are located on the Internet.

Completely updated for this edition, WEDDLE’s Guide to Association Web Sites solves that problem. Compiled in conjunction with the Association for Internet Recruiting, it lists over 1,900 professional, technical and trade associations and indicates what kinds of recruiting services (i.e., job board, resume database, listserv or discussion forum) they provide.

Anyone can find the low hanging fruit on the Internet; what sets the best recruiters apart is their ability to find the candidates with rare skills and those who are superior performers. This book will ensure that you reach this talent where they hang out online: at the Web-sites of their associations and societies. It’s a one-of-a-kind reference for corporate and staffing firm recruiters and executive search consultants. Best of all, it’s updated all year long with site information posted at WEDDLEs.com.

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Internet recruiting is now more than a decade old. We know what works and what doesn’t. Most importantly, we know what works best. Written by one of the world’s leading experts in e-recruiting, this book will help you maximize your ROI … your return on the Internet.

Peter Weddle has been writing columns about the Best Practices in online recruiting since 1996. In a bi-weekly column that appears exclusively in CareerJournal.com from The Wall Street Journal and in his own e-newsletter, he has covered virtually every aspect of sourcing, recruiting and managing talent on the Internet.

Whether it's:

he has explored the challenges and offered innovative approaches that get results. No wonder The Washington Post called him, “a man filled with ingenious ideas.”

Now, you can read the collected wisdom of this Internet guru in the most comprehensive, yet “recruiter friendly” primer on Internet recruiting and HR management available anywhere. Unlike other books, Postcards from Space recognizes the time constraints facing recruiters and HR generalists. Each topic is covered in a number of short essays—postcards, if you will—that can be read quickly, in a single sitting. While all the concepts and strategies are there, the book concentrates on providing practical, easy-to-use tips and insights that will put the Internet to work for you right now.
 

If you have more than two recruiters in your organization, passing a WEDDLE’s Guide or Directory back and forth can get old in a hurry. WEDDLE’s Enterprise Editions give every recruiter access to WEDDLE’s whenever and wherever they need it.

WEDDLE’s Enterprise Editions provide its three leading recruiter resources—WEDDLE’s Guide to Employment Web Sites, WEDDLE’s Directory of Employment-Related Internet Sites and WEDDLE’s Guide to Association Web Sites—on CD.

Designed for use by corporate recruiting teams and staffing firms with multiple recruiters, each Edition also includes a license authorizing the purchasing organization to make unlimited copies of the CD for use by that organization’s employees. They can download it on their computer, print it out in hard copy, or install it on an intranet. However they choose to do it, the books are identical to their print editions in every respect.

As the pace of recruiting picks up, the performance and productivity of your organization’s recruiters depend upon their having the right information right when it’s need. That’s what WEDDLE’s Enterprise Editions can do for your organization. They make WEDDLE’s one-of-a-kind research accessible by each and every recruiter in your organization, enabling them to pick the right sites right away for the top talent that your organization needs.

Best of all, the Enterprise Edition helps you save money. For example, if your organization bought 10 WEDDLE’s Guides last year, the Enterprise Edition will save you $79.55 this year. If it bought 10 Directories for your recruiters last year, the Enterprise Edition will save you $199.55 this year. How about that for doing more with less!

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The Keys To Successful Recruiting and Staffing
By Barry Siegel, Bernard Hodes Group

Ever wish you could pick the brain of a real recruiting guru? Would you like to be able to tap the lessons they’ve learned and the wisdom they’ve acquired? Well, now you can … with Barry Siegel’s primer on The Keys to Successful Recruiting & Staffing.

Written by a recruiting expert with over thirty years of experience, this book provides a compelling description of the evolution of recruiting and the secrets to winning the War for Talent. Barry Siegel, the president of Recruitment Enhancement Services, explores the paradigm shift that saw the recruiting and staffing function move from the back office to center stage in the 1990s.

The cause of this new reality, he explains, was a shift in labor market dynamics: suddenly, there were too many jobs for too few qualified people. As a result, sourcing and recruiting talent became much more important to an organization’s future and its overall net worth. In response, companies invested millions of dollars to fight the War for Talent and learned many valuable lessons.

The recession of 2001, Siegel believes, wiped out those advances. Organizations abandoned their carefully constructed talent acquisition capabilities in favor of cutting headcount to meet short term budget requirements. The staffing department lost its resources, but did not return to the back office. Instead, it remains in the spotlight and under a microscope.

In Siegel’s view, recruiters and HR professionals now face a dilemma. They can either wait for a surprise attack of new requisitions to hit them from all directions in their company or they can move to wage a preemptive strike by adopting the keys to successful recruiting and staffing. For those who choose action, this book lays out a comprehensive strategy that will position the recruiter and their organization for lasting victory in the War for Talent II.

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Taking the High Ground in Talent Recruitment (Video Seminar)

Weddle's has been surveying job seekers and recruiters online since 1996. That research has been cited by CNN and CNBC, by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and it is the basis for this practical introduction to the Best Practices in online recruiting.

This two-hour video presents WEDDLE’s Publisher Peter Weddle’s highly regarded seminar on Third Generation Internet Recruiting. Captured during a live presentation, it covers the evolution of online recruitment, the changing dynamics of the War for Talent, and the most effective techniques for sourcing and recruiting top talent online.

Among the specific techniques that Peter introduces are:

Now, you can train yourself and your colleagues on the state-of-the-art in online recruitment and never have to leave the office. Peter Weddle’s video seminar can be used as a refresher for seasoned recruiters and as a primer for new recruiters. Regardless of your experience level in e-recruiting, however, there’s no better way to maximize your ROI … your return on the Internet! View Video Clip ->>

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'Tis of Thee
A Son’s Search for the Meaning of American Patriotism
By Peter Weddle

When you sit around the dinner table with your kids, do you ever talk about patriotism? Sure, you know what it feels like, but can you tell them what it means? Do you have the words to describe how patriotism is expressed and why it’s important? If not, ‘Tis of Thee is for you.

On September 11, 2001, the United States of America was attacked by terrorists. For those of us who lived through their horrific acts, the day began bright with hope and possibilities and ended dark with despair and fear.

As with the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, the day’s events awoke a sleeping giant. America was a nation consumed with its Pursuit of Happiness on the morning of September 11th; by the evening of that day, it was united in its determination to protect and preserve Life and Liberty for ourselves and our families, for our present and our future.

This book is about American patriotism. It is an intensely personal book—not unlike Tuesdays With Morrie—written largely in the two years prior to the terrorist assault on this country. It was finished in the week immediately following the attack.

The book recounts the year-long “conversation” between a son and his father, between a living American and one resting in Arlington National Cemetery. Their topics range from the Vietnam War to the American Dream, but always, their conclusion is the same: America is as good, as vibrant, as hopeful as the patriotism of we, its people.

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WEDDLE’s e-Newsletter
For Recruiters and HR Professionals

We live in a fast-paced world that is always changing. How can you stay current with developments and keep yourself up-to-date in the recruiting field? How can you get exposed to new ideas, but not get overwhelmed with too much information? Spend a cup of coffee or a soda with Peter Weddle’s FREE bi-weekly newsletter.

There are hundreds of e-newsletters available on the Internet, so why should you bother with one written by WEDDLE’s Publisher, Peter Weddle? Well, we think there are at least three reasons:

• Reason #1: He offers a blend of recruitment strategy and tactics, of concept and “how to do it” that is unique and especially helpful.
• Reason #2: The newsletter is delivered every two weeks right to your e-mailbox, so you get fresh information where you want it, right away.
• Reason #3: It’s absolutely free, so the price is hard to beat.

Peter covers WEDDLE’s latest research into the Best Practices for online recruitment and HR management. His topics include:

• writing job postings that will sell even the most passive “A” level performers,
• searching for top talent when they don’t have a resume online and when they do,
• building relationships with candidates cost and time effectively,
• developing an employment brand and promoting it on the Internet,
• designing and operating a corporate career site that will attract the top talent you most want to recruit,

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