Jami Makan of SmartMoney Magazine ranks QuietAgent number 1 in the latest generation of job sites – that go beyond the hit-and-miss capabilities of traditional job board search.

Read the full article on smartmoney.com…

The Milwaukee Area Investment Board unveiled its new CareerWorks program at Bayshore Town Center today. The CareerWorks program, powered by QuietAgent technology, 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 technology connects job seekers with job openings – geared towards retail, tourism and hospitality jobs.

View the story on WISN.com…

Job Searching Guide Alison Doyle reviews QuietAgent-powered 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…

Blogger BigDaddyCool negotiates his way around QuietAgent-powered United We Work.

United We Work is modeled after eHarmony, instead of being a dating site it is a place where job seekers like you and me can go to so that we can have the employers find us instead of the other way around.

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Raghav Singh writes on ere.net about QuietAgent’s 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…

Chicago, IL (August 25, 2009) – QuietAgent.com, the leading provider of online rapid hiring technology for job seekers and employers, today announced the appointment of seasoned tech CEO Curt J. Witte as its new Chief Executive Officer and President. Witte will be responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of the company’s global operations, and driving explosive growth of its simple-to-use Adaptive Selection™ rapid hiring tools.

Witte will be taking the QuietAgent.com technology to a massive market of employers and candidates who are just plain fed up with the problems of selection and hiring. Witte says, “The current model is totally broken in terms of high cost, long time-to-hire and poor candidate fit.  U.S. employers spent $58 billion last year with companies like Monster, CareerBuilder, LinkedIn, Facebook, Manpower, Google and Yahoo, to connect the right opportunity with the right candidate, while candidates spent hours frantically sifting through thousands of inappropriate opportunities, sending out resumes and registering on dozens of job boards and social media sites. QuietAgent.com is on a mission to constantly evolve its technology to dramatically slash cost and hiring time, while improving candidate fit – through its unique Adaptive Selection™ technology that seamlessly connects candidates and employers without all that friction.”

Witte continues, “In today’s environment of 10%+ unemployment, it is totally unacceptable that millions of jobs sit unfilled because the selection and hiring tools available are costly, slow and not designed to solve the real problem of getting people hired faster. We are very passionate about solving that inequity, and I strongly encourage everyone, employed or not, recruiters and job seekers, to come to www.quietagent.com today and register, so we can help America get back to work faster.”

Mr. Witte has a proven track record of success in software, business services and technology with over 15 years of experience, from scaling start-up ventures by over 14x, to running $10b Fortune 50 lines of business, with specific experience in strategy, marketing, sales, product management, finance and business development. He has held senior positions at leading companies including: AT&T (NYSE: T), Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH), Lexington Financial Partners, First Investors Corp, CommSoft Partners LLC, Peopleclick and Firm58. As CEO of Peopleclick, he raised $33m of VC funding, increased revenue 2400% and increased clients from 40 to 3000. His successes at Firm58 included increasing revenue 500%, and completing an $8.5m capital raise. Mr. Witte graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in economics and was a Rothschild Scholar at the Kellogg School at Northwestern University where he received an MBA.

Jason Kerr moves from CEO into the role of Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, focused on corporate strategy, industry evangelism, product strategy and infrastructure scaling. Kerr says that it is Witte’s “wealth of expertise in mass commercialization and scaling emerging growth companies” that provided the right fit for this, the fifth leading-edge technology company he has founded.

Kerr says, “In 2009 we are seeing triple digit growth in job seekers and clients. With Curt coming on board, I am now able to focus on ensuring we continually evolve the technology towards our goals. In the next few months we will release a ‘game-changing’ upgrade that delivers on the promise of ‘instant candidate selection’ for recruiters, and significantly increases job seekers’ interviews.”

QuietAgent.com’s leading Adaptive Selection™ hiring tools have been used since 2004 by employers, recruiters, governments and workforce and community organizations to pinpoint the best qualified and mutually interested anonymous candidates. QuietAgent.com is the power behind the recently launched United We Work initiative (www.unitedwework.org), a free, nationwide recruiting service designed to stimulate hiring in America.

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About QuietAgent.com
QuietAgent.com is the leader in Adaptive Selection™ recruitment. Job seekers complete an anonymous career profile (resume), which continually keeps an eye out for their next career step while adapting the search criteria to changes in a job seeker’s skills, experience and desires throughout their career. No job searching, no job alerts, no applying to jobs – totally anonymous. Employers create a search that instantly shortlists, and continually keeps an eye out for, only the best-qualified candidates who want the job, allowing the employers to then adapt the results to their current needs. No job postings, no unqualified candidates. QuietAgent has offices in San Diego, Chicago, New York and Auckland New Zealand. For more information, visit www.QuietAgent.com

Contact
Gayleen Robinson
Gayleen.robinson@quietagent.com
888-288-2101

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

Madeline Nusser of Time Out Chicago and Geoff Weathersby, Product Manager for QuietAgent, counsel four job seekers on whether they should go for their dream gig, or travel a different job route.

In this economy, landing your dream job is about as easy as catching a mackerel with your bare hands. But does that mean it’s time to throw in the towel?

Read the full article on chicago.timeout.com…

Bill Vick of XtremeRecruiting.tv shares an enlightening interview with QuietAgent Founder and CTO Jason Kerr, about what Web 3.0 Recruiting looks like, and how QuietAgent is creating a “decision engine for recruitment” that is focused on solving the recruitment problem.

View the full interview.