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LexisNexis joins AllianceQ

Announcements - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 19:00 - 0 Comments

July 1, 2009

LexisNexis has joined the AllianceQ recruitment collaboration as a Charter Member: www.allianceq.com/lexisnexis

LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions to a wide range of professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. A member of Reed Elsevier [NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK] (www.reedelsevier.com), LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with 18,000 employees worldwide. For more information, visit www.lexisnexis.com

AllianceQ appoints Qualigence CEO as Chairman

Announcements, Press Releases - Feb 24, 2009 3:40 - 0 Comments

The recruitment collaboration of Fortune 500 companies selects Stephen Lowisz, a leading recruitment industry expert, to chair its growing organization

Chicago, IL (February 24, 2009) – AllianceQ, the recruitment collaboration of Fortune 500 companies, announced today the appointment of Stephen Lowisz as Chairman. Lowisz is CEO and Founder of Qualigence, a highly-respected recruitment research and professional search firm headquartered in Livonia, Michigan.

AllianceQ was launched last year by a group of industry-leading Fortune 500 companies with a shared vision for building a combined pool of job candidates that decreases the overall cost of recruiting, while improving the experience for applicants.

Founding members of AllianceQ include Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), ARAMARK, AT&T, Baxter, Bayer, Best Buy Co., Inc., Entergy Corporation, FPL Group (Florida Power & Light Company, FPL Energy), Hewitt, Sears Holdings Corporation, Starbucks, and Wachovia Corporation.

As Chairperson of the Alliance, Lowisz will act as a liaison between AllianceQ members and its Board of Governors, will work to promote AllianceQ throughout the recruitment industry, and provide strategic direction and recommendations, while leading quarterly board meetings.

“Having the right leadership with a certain depth of expertise and experience is critical to the success of AllianceQ,” said Jason Kerr, CEO of QuietAgent, the online recruitment company that developed the technology behind the collaboration. “Steve is a respected leader in the recruitment industry with the kind of knowledge and insight that will help AllianceQ continue to grow and innovate.”

Said Lowisz: “Being Chairperson for AllianceQ is not only a great opportunity, but a natural fit, given my experience in the industry. I believe in the value of what the Alliance brings to member organizations, as well as candidates, and have already begun to introduce many of my own clients to the Alliance and its benefits.”

About AllianceQ:
AllianceQ is a growing collaboration of industry-leading Fortune 500 companies that have come together to build an exclusive recruitment network to help job seekers get connected to jobs, and to drive down their future cost of recruiting. AllianceQ members share job candidates they cannot hire, giving each member access to more talent, and giving job candidates inside access to more opportunities with other alliance members, and any other employer outside of the alliance. AllianceQ is powered by QuietAgent, a next-generation job matching technology. For more information, visit: www.AllianceQ.com.

About Qualigence:
Qualigence is a recruitment research and professional search firm headquartered in Livonia, Michigan with additional offices in throughout the U.S. Qualigence identifies professionals from all industries and position levels and can develop qualified and culturally-fit passive candidates into interested candidates for your organization. Known for the accuracy and depth of its research, Qualigence has grown to become the largest recruitment research company in the U.S. Founded by Stephen Lowisz in 1999, Qualigence is a privately held organization.

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Online Alliance Broadens Recruiting

Articles - Nov 1, 2008 14:00 - 0 Comments

Human Resource Executive Online

November 1, 2008

Paul Gallagher reports on the Fortune 500 companies that have come together to create their own free talent pool, AllianceQ, where millions of candidates who are turned down for jobs are now given an opportunity to be found for jobs - rather than be sent to the recruiting ”black hole of no response”.

“Tim Kutzer, manager of staffing operations for Richfield, Minn.-based Best Buy… says that the company’s motivation in joining AllianceQ was strongly influenced by brand preservation. “I think it shows that we’re willing to look at things a little differently, from how we treat our candidates and also how we find talent,” he says.

Rather than send rejected candidates a boilerplate e-mail, Kutzer says, AllianceQ members thank candidates and invite them to share their skills anonymously with other AllianceQ members. The company receives about three million applicants per year, and Kutzer says those are millions of reasons to preserve the brand image.”

Read the full article on Human Resources Executive Online…