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Weddle's "Where People Matter Most""Employers are still hiring, but they're being much, much more careful about selection." Peter Weddle  Peter Weddle His popular Directories and Surveys focus on the employment-related area of the Internet. We would much appreciate your participation in the conversation - please share your ideas and observations by posting to the comments section. Questions Peter Clayton asked Peter Weddle: You've been traveling around to the recruiting shows -- the last one being Kennedy Info in Las Vegas -- what's the buzz? What have you been working on? What's your assessment of the job market for the balance of 2008? You write two newsletters - One focuses on Online Resources for Successful Job Search & Career Management, written for job seekers and career activists. The second The Newsletter About Online Resources for Successful Recruiting & HR Management is written for recruiters and Human Resource professionals. And I want those in the audience not familiar with Peter's newsletters to be aware that you can sign-up to receive these - for free - at weddles.com - and they offer tremendous insight. I'd like you to tell us about the Weddle's Annual Source of Employment Survey Your latest newsletter for job seekers and career activists is title From "Notworking" to Networking Online - it's amazing to me the number of people who think by joining LinkedIn they're somehow networking. Since 2005, you've been holding a year-long poll where job board users can come and cast their vote for their favorite sites. At the end of each year, you tally up the ballots and recognize the thirty sites with the most votes as Weddles User's Choice Award winners-the elite of the job board industry. So, I've been following these polls and they seem to be fairly consistent - meaning the same job boards make the list every year - what's new in 2008? WEDDLE's Announces 2008 User's Choice Winners Job boards have changed job search forever. They have made more employment opportunities available to more people than any other medium in history. Are they the only tool a person should use to find a new or better job? Of course not. Today's job market is too great a challenge-especially if you're looking for a meaningful and rewarding position-to be conquered with a single resource, no matter how powerful it may be. That said, those who ignore job boards or use them ineffectively are likely to find themselves struggling with a very different kind of test-one simply to stay employed. Given this critical role, it's important to remember that job boards are barely more than ten years old. A decade ago, there was a Monster Board, the Online Career Center, CareerMosaic.com and a handful of smaller sites. That's it. Today, there are more than 50,000 job boards operating in the U.S. alone and an equal number offering their services elsewhere around the world. Which begs the question, "How can you determine which sites will best help you achieve your employment objective?". That's what WEDDLE's User's Choice Awards are all about. They celebrate the elite of the job board industry. More importantly, they are the only recognition in that industry in which actual users-job seekers, recruiters and employers-get to select the winners. No pundit picks here, just the opinions of people who have relied on these sites to find the employment opportunities they seek or hire the talent their organizations need. Since 2005, we at WEDDLE's have been holding a year-long poll where job board users can come and cast their vote for their favorite sites. At the end of each year, we tally up the ballots and recognize the thirty sites with the most votes as our User's Choice Award winners-the elite of the job board industry. (To cast your vote, please click here.) Are there other great job boards out there? Absolutely. The winners, however, have generated enough enthusiasm among their users that those individuals are willing to take the time out of their busy day to visit the WEDDLE's site and cast a ballot for them. As with the voting for Major League Baseball's All Star teams, it's not a scientific process, but it is definitely a measure of the intensity of support that sites have been able to generate among their users.
WEDDLE's 2008 User's Choice Awards are generously supported by Bernard Hodes Group. The winners are:
Absolutely Health Care Shopping for the right job board-the one that will connect you with the best employment opportunities for you-is now a central aspect of any job search campaign, and WEDDLE's User's Choice Awards give you a one-of-a-kind filter with which to evaluate alternative sites. We may live in an era of hyperbole, but it is no exaggeration to say that the User's Choice Award winners are among the very best job boards in the world. That's not my opinion. It's the view of tens of thousands of job seekers (and recruiters) worldwide. PETER WEDDLE 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 Generalship: HR Leadership in a Time of War, Postcards From Space (a primer), 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, 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, and the International Society for Performance Improvement. An avid athlete, Weddle successfully completed both the Airborne and Ranger programs while on active duty with the U.S. Army. He also led an expedition which scaled the Cervino (Italian) face of the Matterhorn, one of Europe's highest mountains, and a team which represented the United States in international long distance marching competition. Weddle is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has attended Oxford University and holds advanced degrees from Middlebury College and Harvard University. Resources: WeddlesInternational Association of Employment Web Sites              |
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