WEDDLE's Consulting Services

Who is Peter Weddle?

Peter Weddle is an HR consultant, recruiter and business CEO turned author and commentator. Described by The Washington Post as "... a man filled with ingenious ideas," he has earned an international reputation pioneering strategic Human Resource leadership, Human Capital formation, and Internet strategies for state-of-the-art Human Resource management.

Weddle has authored or edited over two dozen books and published dozens of articles in professional and trade magazines. He writes a bi-weekly column about technology-based Human Resource management and recruiting for CareerJournal.com from The Wall Street Journal and bi-weekly newsletters for HR professionals and job seekers that are distributed worldwide.

In addition, he oversees WEDDLE's, the leading print publisher of books where people matter most. His book on HR leadership, Generalship: HR Leadership in a Time of War, is fast becoming the seminal text in its field. Similarly, WEDDLE’s guides and directories about employment resources on the Internet are widely recognized for their accuracy and helpfulness. Indeed, the American Staffing Association has called Weddle the "Zagat” of the 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..

Weddle has appeared frequently in the media, including CBS This Morning, The Today Show, CNNfn, CNN, 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, Fortune, Money and other publications. In addition, he has spoken to meetings and conventions sponsored by corporations, professional associations and trade groups in the United States and around the world.

Areas of Consulting

Weddle consults in two key areas: Recruiting and Staffing Excellence and Strategic Human Resource Leadership. The constituent issues addressed in each of these areas are listed below.

n  Recruiting & Staffing Excellence

Employment Brand definition

• Defining the enterprise as an employer of choice
• Ensuring alignment between brand and business actions
• Implementing a brand internally
• Implementing a brand externally

Development of a state-of-the-art recruiting function

• Process re-engineering for optimum performance
• Design and implementation of a technology strategy
• Assessment and management of required cultural changes
• Design and installation of measurement (metrics) process
• Training in and use of Best Practices
• Development and implementation of Best Policies
• Optimizing the Employee Referral Program
• Design and/or upgrade and installation of an Internal Mobility Program
• Design, development and operation of a Career Web-site
• Rationale for and development of a recruitment planning process
• Rationale for and development of a succession planning program
• Design and implementation of retention strategies and programs
• Budgeting and staffing for excellence in the War for the Best Talent

n  Strategic Human Resource Leadership

Taking the lead in the modern enterprise

• The attributes and actions of strategic HR leaders
• Redefining the role of the HR organization to enhance its business impact
• Working with CEOs, CFOs and strategic business unit leaders
• Operating the HR organization as a line unit
• Building a leadership culture among the HR staff
• Identifying and developing HR leader

n  Staffing Firm Differentiation & Excellence

Maximizing your ROI … your return on the Internet

• Formulating a strategy for contracting with and using the Big 3 recruitment sites
• Positioning the Internet effectively among the range of recruitment methods used by staff
• Turning individual recruiter expertise online into a corporate-wide asset
• Using the Internet to establish a brand that stands for quality and customer service
• Instituting a culture of Best Practices
• Optimizing the yield from your corporate Web-site
   

For additional information or to discuss a project,
please call Peter Weddle at 203.964.1888