CBRE has joined the AllianceQ Open Talent Network as a Charter Member: www.AllianceQ.com/cbre

About CB Richard Ellis
CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm (in terms of 2008 revenue). The Company has approximately 30,000 employees (excluding affiliates), and serves real estate owners, investors and occupiers through more than 300 offices (excluding affiliates) worldwide. CB Richard Ellis offers strategic advice and execution for property sales and leasing; corporate services; property, facilities and project management; mortgage banking; appraisal and valuation; development services; investment management; and research and consulting. CB Richard Ellis has been named a BusinessWeek 50 “best in class” company for three years in a row. Please visit our website at www.cbre.com.

Kroger has joined the AllianceQ Open Talent Network as a Charter Member: www.AllianceQ.com/Kroger

About Kroger
Kroger, the nation’s largest traditional grocery retailer, employs more than 326,000 associates who serve customers in 2,469 supermarkets and multi-department stores in 31 states under two dozen local banner names including Kroger, City Market, Dillons, Jay C, Food 4 Less, Fred Meyer, Fry’s, King Soopers, QFC, Ralphs and Smith’s. The Company also operates 773 convenience stores, 392 fine jewelry stores, 850 supermarket fuel centers and 40 food processing plants in the U.S. Kroger, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, focuses its charitable efforts on supporting hunger relief, health and wellness initiatives, and local organizations in the communities it serves. For more information about Kroger, please visit www.kroger.com.

Schawk has joined the AllianceQ Open Talent Network as a Charter Member: www.AllianceQ.com/Schawk

About Schawk
Schawk, Inc. (NYSE: SGK) is the leading provider of brand management services, enabling companies of all sizes to connect their brands with consumers to create deeper brand affinity. With a global footprint of 49 offices, Schawk helps companies create compelling and consistent brand experiences by providing integrated strategic, creative and executional services across brand touch points. Founded in 1953, Schawk is trusted by many of the world’s leading organizations to help them achieve global brand consistency. For more information about Schawk, visit http://www.schawk.com

Anita Bruzzese reports in StatesmanJournal the things job seekers should and shouldn’t be doing when hunting for a job.

Anita is the author of “45 Things You Do That Drive Your Boss Crazy … and How to Avoid Them” (www.45things.com).

Read the full article on StatesmanJournal.com…

AllianceQ shares 7 Holiday Party Networking Tips with NY Career Coach Examiner Gianni Celestin.

Read the full article on examiner.com…

Listen to Phil Haynes, Managing Director of AllianceQ, on Recruiter Life Radio – explaining the value propositions behind AllianceQ and how it is actually implemented at member companies.

Listen to the Recruiter Life Radio inteview with Phil Haynes…

Phil Haynes, Managing Director of AllianceQ, warns job seekers that if the only method they are using to find a job is to apply online to companies and job boards, then they might as well be invisible to employers.

He says, however, that “a revamped strategy can help bring success.”

Read the full story on News-Press.com…

November 10, 2009

ABC news Economics Writer Christopher S. Rugaber reports that job openings are stuck at near-record lows, and that despite some economic recovery, most companies are still reluctant to hire. He notes that many economists worry that volumes of job openings will not  increase for up to 15-19 months, as was the case for the 1991 and 2001 economic recoveries.

Phil Haynes, Managing Director of Open Talent Network AllianceQ, says that he has seen a spike in the hiring of contract recruiters, which is a positive sign – since “the recruiters come before the jobs.”

Read the full story on abcnews.com…

Jennifer Davies writes in SignOn San Diego, about how job seekers can make sure they stand out from the crowd when applying for jobs in a tough economy.

Phil Haynes, Managing Director of AllianceQ advises job seekers to apply to jobs as quickly as possible (within 24-48 hours of a job being posted), as “employers are getting so many qualified applicants, they might stop looking at résumés that come in later.”

Read the full article on signonsandiego.com…

Jennifer Davies reports in the San Diego Union Tribune, of all the new ways job seekers must learn to connect with employers in today’s job market. With San Diego’s unemployment rate at 10.2 percent, she says there are a lot of diligent job seekers facing very little opportunities.

Phil Haynes, Managing Director of AllianceQ, says, however, that he can see a turnaround beginning – with companies now “hiring the people who hire people”.

Read the full story on www.signonsandiego.com

ServiceMaster has joined the AllianceQ Open Talent Network as a Charter Member: www.AllianceQ.com/ServiceMaster

About ServiceMaster
ServiceMaster currently serves residential and commercial customers through a network of more than 5,500 company-owned locations and franchised licenses. The company’s brands include TruGreen, TruGreen LandCare, Terminix, American Home Shield, ServiceMaster Clean, Merry Maids, Furniture Medic, and AmeriSpec. The core services of the company include lawn care and landscape maintenance, termite and pest control, home warranties, cleaning and disaster restoration, house cleaning, furniture repair, and home inspection. www.servicemaster.com

Toyota Financial Services has joined the AllianceQ recruitment collaboration as a Charter Member: www.allianceq.com/toyota

About Toyota Financial Services
Since 1983, Toyota Financial Services has helped millions of Toyota customers drive the vehicle of their dreams. From flexible lease and finance plans, to vehicle and payment protection products that add peace of mind, its programs are designed to meet the unique needs of Toyota drivers. TFS is committed to offering quality products that provide convenience and value, and to delivering consistent support that helps ensure customer and dealer satisfaction. Learn more at www.toyotafinancial.com.

The Milwaukee Area Investment Board unveiled its new CareerWorks program at Bayshore Town Center today. The CareerWorks program, powered by QuietAgent (the technology behind AllianceQ), is conveniently located within the mall, and geared towards retail, tourism and hospitality jobs.

“QuietAgent was a real hit with jobseekers” – Jerry Roberts, Business Division Team Leader, Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board.

View the story on fox6now.com…

WISN 12 News reports on the opening of CareerWorks at the Bayshore Town Center in Glendale. With unemployment declining in the metro Milwaukee area, this new initiative aims to bring numbers down even more. The new CareerWorks center allows job seekers to go ‘job shopping’ while at the mall. QuietAgent (the technology behind AllianceQ) connects job seekers with job openings – geared towards retail, tourism and hospitality jobs.

View the story on WISN.com…

Alison Doyle explains on about.com, that job seekers need to find ways to tap into the companies that are actually hiring. AllianceQ gives candidates an opportunity to be found directly by hiring managers from Fortune 500 companies when they have job openings.

Read the full article on about.com…

Job Searching Guide Alison Doyle reviews AllianceQ on About.com. She refers to AllianceQ as a new breed of hiring solution that is more focused and strategic – a big shift from the confused and cluttered job board model.

AllianceQ is a brand new way of hiring. The hiring black hole that often happens when candidates apply for jobs and never hear back and where companies have to weed through masses of resumes is gone. In fact, AllianceQ takes most, if not all, of the guess work of hiring.

Read the full article on About.com…

Raghav Singh writes on ere.net about QuietAgent (the technology behind AllianceQ), and its unique approach, that incorporates the comprehensive O*Net database for classifying and matching, and isn’t about secret algorithms that recruiters have to blindly ‘trust’ when it comes to finding the right candidates.

Matching technology is nothing new. Other products have been available for at least a decade. But most matching products are a black box. Using them requires having total faith in the methodology and algorithms developed by the vendors.

Read the full article on ere.net…

Milwaukee, WI (August 18, 2009) – The Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board (MAWIB), along  with City of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, today announced a ‘game-changing’ program for ensuring local unemployed workers have the best chance of being found.  MAWIB has implemented the QuietAgent Workforce Edition; a collaborative employment technology that networks twelve MAWIB funded agencies to ensure their job-ready candidates can be easily found and hired by local employers.

MAWIB’s Workforce Network of public and private partners, including Maximus, YWCA, UMOS, Job Service, Hire Center, Milwaukee Urban League, Interfaith Older Adult Programs, UWM Career Transition Center, Racine City Workforce Development Center, Kaiser Group, Policy Studies Inc., and the PACE Program at the Milwaukee Area Technical Colleges will now be able to collaborate and share their job-ready candidates, in order to get more people employed faster, and meet local employer demand. 

The QuietAgent Workforce Edition provides a common connection between workforce agencies, their job-ready candidates and local employers.  All job-ready candidates across participating agencies reside in one database and can be seen and accessed by any participating agency as well as any local employer.

“The QuietAgent technology enables us to work cooperatively to leverage our current resources so we can meet and anticipate our regional economic needs,” says MAWIB’s Business Service Team Leader, Jerry Roberts.

The real power of QuietAgent is that it seamlessly connects MAWIB’s job-ready candidates to thousands of employers who may not know about MAWIB services, thereby extending the reach MAWIB has to place its job-ready candidates into the community.

“One of the main reasons we went with the QuietAgent technology, is that it continually exposes our job-ready candidates to a growing list of employers who use other QuietAgent services to find and hire candidates,” says Delores Graves, MAWIB’s Business Services Manager. “These employers include the large corporations of AllianceQ such as AT&T, ARAMARK, Staples, 7-Eleven, Best Buy, Bank of America, Office Depot, Sears, Starbucks and many other major corporations, as well as thousands of smaller businesses.”

QuietAgent.com (another of QuietAgent’s services) is a publicly accessible candidate database that employers use to find job candidates.  When an employer searches QuietAgent.com they now seamlessly search and are presented MAWIB job-ready candidates in the candidate shortlists. 

“Government workforce programs will be truly effective only when unemployed candidates are seamlessly searched and presented to employers during the employer’s normal hiring practice” says Gary Scheier, Director of Government Programs for QuietAgent.  “Reaching and engaging employers to use local, state and government funded programs, is a constant battle for workforce organizations.  QuietAgent solves that key issue by making the process to search and engage unemployed job-ready candidates easy for employers.” 

Since 2004 the QuietAgent Workforce Edition has powered the entire unemployment system for the nation of New Zealand. “Following our success in New Zealand, which for years has sustained unemployment rates that are nearly half that of the US, we are focused on working with forward thinking US government agencies like the MAWIB, to swiftly get people back to work and aggressively cut the unacceptably high US unemployment rates that are causing some much pain in communities” said Curt Witte, CEO of QuietAgent. “With over $500 million in Federal workforce grants available in the next 60 days alone, we are contacting WIBs, States, CBOs and local governments to assist them in accessing these funds.”

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About the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board
In partnership with local leaders from government, private industry and labor, MAWIB develops workforce solutions that meet and anticipate regional economic development needs. For employers we offer specialized training programs and innovative human resource services to provide the skilled workers they need to remain competitive and contribute to a robust economy. For job seekers, we provide the resources to keep pace with today’s job market. For more information, please contact Jerry Roberts: jerry.roberts@milwaukeewib.org. 

About QuietAgent
QuietAgent is a third-generation employment selection network.  Its Workforce Edition enables collaborative employment networks to be built on a common platform connecting education, small business, major corporations, local, state and government programs and the wider community, under a public-private partnership to reduce unemployment. QuietAgent has offices in San Diego, Chicago, New York and Auckland New Zealand. For more information please contact Gary Scheier: gary.scheier@quietagent.com. 888-288-2101

Bank of America has joined the AllianceQ recruitment collaboration as a Charter Member: www.allianceq.com/bankofamerica

Bank of America is one of the world’s largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 55 million consumer and small business relationships with more than 6,100 retail banking offices, more than 18,500 ATMs and award-winning online banking with nearly 30 million active users.

Bank of America is among the world’s leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to more than 4 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients in more than 150 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

www.bankofamerica.com

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics has joined the AllianceQ recruitment collaboration as a Charter Member: www.allianceq.com/siemenshealthcarediagnostics

The Siemens Healthcare Sector is one of the world’s largest suppliers to the healthcare industry. The company is a renowned medical solutions provider with core competence and innovative strength in diagnostic and therapeutic technologies as well as in knowledge engineering, including information technology and system integration. With its laboratory diagnostics acquisitions, Siemens Healthcare is the first integrated healthcare company, bringing together imaging and lab diagnostics, therapy, and healthcare information technology solutions, supplemented by consulting and support services. Siemens Healthcare delivers solutions across the entire continuum of care – from prevention and early detection, to diagnosis, therapy and care. Additionally, Siemens Healthcare is the global market leader in innovative hearing instruments. The company employs around 49,000 people worldwide and operates in 130 countries. In the fiscal year 2008 (Sept. 30), Siemens Healthcare reported sales of €11.2 billion, orders of €11.8 billion, and Sector profit of €1.2 billion. Visit: http://diagnostics.siemens.com