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WEDDLEs Guide to Employment Sites on the Internet

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American Staffing Association

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Richard Nelson Bolles, What Color is Your Parachute?

A wealth of updated and useful information.

Library Journal

WEDDLEs is a very useful tool that recruiters and HR professionals will find helpful.

Fortune Magazine

When in doubt, consider WEDDLEs an industry standard.

HR WIRE

If youre looking for an objective guide to employment Web-sites, ExecuNet recommends WEDDLEs Guide.

ExecuNet Center for Executive Careers

Work Strong: Your Personal Career Fitness System

Peter Weddles Career Fitness System empowers you to take your job search to the next level and achieve lasting career success.

Diana Miller, CEO Community Job Club

There are few people in the world who are as passionate about our careers and our own unique talents as Peter Weddle. Work Strong changes the paradigms of career management books and is sure to give you a new perspective on how to Work Strong in your own career.

Aaron Matos, CEO Jobing

This book is a guide to finding yourself and to charting a new course for a 21st Century career. A must read!

Kevin Wheeler, CEO Global Learning Resources, Inc.

A lifetime of career happiness in a single book!

Dan Honig, COO DiversityJobs.com

In todays world, its not enough to work hard. You also have to work strong and perform at your peak. Thats the power and promise of this book.

John Bell, CEO Boxwood Technology

Generalship: HR Leadership in a Time of War

a wake-up call for those of us in HR. We need to take on the accountability for effecting change. This book provides a great strategy for doing just that.

Regina DeTore, VP/HR Sepracor, Inc.

a must-read book for human resource professionals, especially those who seek to be true leaders in their corporation.

Jerome N. Carter, SVP/HR International Paper

Human Resources is now facing extraordinary challenges. This demanding time requires the kind of bold, thoughtful and thorough leadership suggested by this book.

Guy Patton, EVP/HR Fidelity Investments

Dont miss this book. Its Machiavellis The Prince and Coveys 7 Habits of Highly Effective People all rolled into one for the HR profession.

Donna Introcaso, VP/HR iVillage

This book is a must-read on HR leadership, not only for HR practitioners, but for every CEO and Company Director, as well.

Robert S. Nadel, President Nadel Consulting

Recognizing Richard Rabbit: A Fable About Being True to Yourself

A magical way to explore the essence of you.

Jennifer Floren, CEO Experience

a very intriguing and unique book.

Patrick Erwin, The Work Buzz CareerBuilder.com

if youre thinking about making changes in your personal life or want a pep talk about being true to yourself, check out this book.

Celeste Blackburn, Managing Editor Resources for Humans

The story inspires useful reflection and a practical rethinking of your own personal effectiveness in work and life.

Jonathan Goodman, Review on Social Median

Career Fitness: How to Find, Win & Keep the Job You Want in the 1990s

This book is phenomenal! Itll help you run the race of your life at work each day.

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Being Eaten Alive

street-smart wisdom, coupled with practical career workout tools sure to be useful to people at any point in their career.

Madelyn Jennings, SVP/HR Gannett Company, Inc.

The Success Matrix: Wisdom from the Web on How to Get Hired & Not Be Fired

Job Nation: The 100 Best Employment Sites on the Web

The Career Activist Republic

Work Strong: Your Personal Career Fitness System

Recognizing Richard Rabbit: A Fable About Being True to Yourself

Generalship: HR Leadership in a Time of War

Career Fitness: How to Find, Win & Keep the Job You Want in the 1990s

Postcards from Space: Being the Best in Online Recruitment & HR Management

WEDDLEs Guide to Employment Sites on the Internet (biannually: 1999-present)

WEDDLEs Guide to Association Web Sites

WEDDLES Guide to Staffing Firms & Employment Agencies

Tis of Thee: A Sons Search for the Meaning of Patriotism

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ISBN: 978-1-928734-71-0

Copyright 2011 by Peter Weddle.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof.

All characters in this book are fictional and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

For the American Middle Class

Men and women who deserve better,

But not without a fight

Its often hard to trace just exactly where our thoughts and ideas come from. Besides, I would prefer to believe that they are shaped like a hobos stew. We begin life as a broad rimmed pot into which we toss a green grocers array of different perspectives and wisdom, and then, we season that broth with our own unique experiences to produce the final product.

Whether or not thats true for everyone, it is certainly an accurate description of this books origins. So, while I take full responsibility for what appears in the pages ahead of you, I would be remiss not to thank the many friends and colleagues who helped to shape its themes. They include my brothers-in-arms in the F-Troop, my fellow travelers in the online employment services industry and all of the people Ive spoken to and with during my seminars and presentations around the country. To a person, they stretched my thinking and enriched my dreams.

I also owe a debt of gratitude to Christina Levere for all of her editorial contributions to the manuscript and to the good folks at IPG who have taught me so much about the business of books.

This book, however, would never have been written even with that full recipe of insights and ideas if it werent for the support of my family. I am especially grateful to my kids, Meagan, Brooke and Peter, and their spouses and partners, who are the reason I am so hopeful about the future, and to my sister, Pam, who read an early draft of the manuscript and made it immensely better with her suggestions. And, of course, I could not have endured the long, lonely bouts with my word processor were it not for my wife, Juliana. She is the one who encourages me to live with my better muse.

Peter Weddle

Stamford, Connecticut

And we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Well we all shine on Everyone, cmon.

John Lennon