According to his bio:

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.

In addition, he's a West Point Graduate with degrees from Oxford and Harvard as well. He's scaled the Matterhorn (led the expedition, have him tell you that story). He founded Job Bank USA in 1991 (which probably qualifies him as a visionary and industry starter).

In general, this guy is a class act, the sort of talent we need lots of in the industry.

Part of the reason you don't hear much about Peter is that he has taken on the thankless job of educating the job hunting public about how to use online services. So, while he is actually of great consequence in our business, no one knows about him, particularly.

That's not true in job hunting land. Weddle's job search seminars are popular and well attended. The folks at Amazon sell piles of his books. Weddle is fast becoming the Dick Bolles of this generation. (Bolles wrote "What Color is Your Parachute?")

This week, the annual "Weddle's User's Choice Awards" were announced. The winners are:

Voting is open to anyone who visits the WEDDLE's Web-site although, to the maximum extent possible, duplicate ballots are eliminated. It does not pretend to be a scientific sample of the user population, but rather a window into the preferences of active users. As with All Star balloting in Major League Baseball, it reflects not only the popularity of certain sites, but also the intensity of the support among users.

This is just the tip of the iceberg in Weddle's current interests. Tomorrow, we'll take a look at his latest brainchild.

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