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

CHICAGO (July 13, 2009) – As U.S. unemployment rates near an all time high, unemployed workers need quick and efficient ways to match their skills with open job opportunities. To facilitate the connection between job seekers and employers, AllianceQ today announced the launch of UnitedWeWork.org, a free recruitment service available to employers of all sizes and workers of all levels and skills. Major companies including, 7-Eleven, ADP, Allstate, AT&T, Hewitt Associates, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, Office Depot, Sears Holdings, and Starbucks have partnered with AllianceQ to kick off the massive recruitment effort.

The average American has more than 30,000 places to search for work, and American employers spend around $60 billion a year trying to find and hire new employees. According to a survey by the Employment Management Association, the average cost to post an open position, identify the appropriate candidate and fill the position is around $10,000. UnitedWeWork.org will connect employers with job seekers with no recruiting, job posting or advertising fees.

“In this economy we are seeing far more job seekers and far fewer jobs; to the point where some job boards have actually taken to charging job seekers to help them find work.” said Phil Haynes, Director of AllianceQ. “UnitedWeWork.org is the only significant offering to allow companies to save on job posting and search and recruitment fees, as well as give all job seekers an equal chance to be found and hired.”

Companies that join UnitedWeWork.org will have access to advanced matching technologies to generate a “shortlist” of qualified, skilled and interested job seekers that are matched based on skills, competencies and work preferences. Candidates are re-evaluated daily as new jobs are posted.

“As a founding member of AllianceQ, ADP is proud to support the United We Work initiative. This alliance creates access to a no cost, easy-to-use community that connects candidates and companies,” said Benito Cachinero, Corporate Vice President of Human Resources for ADP, Inc., one of the world’s leading providers of business outsourcing solutions to over 585,000 clients.

“The economy has made it very difficult for job seekers to quickly narrow in on companies that have open opportunities,” said Daisy Vanderlinde, Executive Vice President of Human Resources for Office Depot. “Using a recruiting service that is free for employers will help connect qualified candidates with more job opportunities more quickly than a traditional job search.”

Through UnitedWeWork.org, U.S. employers will be able to access a candidate database of people ranging across all experience levels and skill sets. Companies will be able to access the database free for the remainder of 2009. For businesses with fewer than 100 employees, the offer continues through July 2010.

AllianceQ is powered by QuietAgent, a next-generation job matching network. Companies and candidates can visit www.UnitedWeWork.org to learn more.

About United We Work
www.UnitedWeWork.org is a nationwide recruiting service designed to stimulate hiring in America by connecting job seekers and employers without any recruiting fees whatsoever. Any job seeker can join and be hired for free. Any employer can easily find, contact and hire any job seeker without cost.  United We Work is provided through AllianceQ, and principal partners include 7-Eleven, ADP, Allstate, AT&T, Hewitt, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, Office Depot, Sears Holdings, and Starbucks.  United We Work is powered by QuietAgent, a next-generation job matching network. For more information or to join visit www.UnitedWeWork.org

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 network. For more information, visit: www.AllianceQ.com.

About QuietAgent
QuietAgent is a next-generation job matching network. Job seekers complete an anonymous career profile (resume), which continually keeps an eye out for their next career step. 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. 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
Kevin Ota
203-947-3693
Email: kevin@bigfieldpr.com

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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Chicago, IL (December 23, 2008) – AllianceQ today announced that the opportunity to be one of its Founding Members has now closed, with nineteen Fortune 500 companies signed, and eight more lined up to fill the final Founding Member slot by the end of December.

The AllianceQ recruitment collaboration was launched by a group of industry-leading Fortune 500 companies less than six months ago; created to build a shared pool of job candidates and drive down its members’ cost of recruiting.

Initial founding members included Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), Baxter, Best Buy Co., Inc., Entergy Corporation, FPL Group (Florida Power & Light Company, FPL Energy), Starbucks, and Wachovia Corporation. Since then, the fast growing collaboration has added ARAMARK, AT&T, Bayer, Hewitt and Sears Holdings Corporation as joint founders.

AllianceQ is limited to 100 members, all Fortune 1,000 companies. With the twenty Founding Member slots now gone, just 80 places are available for other leading companies to get involved and drive down their recruitment costs. Thirty of those places are already under contract.

Phil Haynes, Director of AllianceQ, explains that his focus is now on the next step in the organization’s strategy; “the Alliance’s goal is to provide its members with a zero cost recruitment solution for three out of every five jobs by the end of 2009.” He continues, “in the current economic climate, the timing to execute on this strategy and achieve our goal couldn’t be better.”

According to 2006 statistics, US employers are locked in a repetitive spending cycle of close to $8 billion a year to attract candidates for their jobs. Haynes believes that the coming year will “bring about a renewed focus on dramatically reducing costs in this area.”

A new AllianceQ website was launched this week, to provide improved information for potential new members, and a fresh new experience for job seekers.

About AllianceQ

AllianceQ is collaboration of industry-leading Fortune 500 companies that have come together to build a free, exclusive and continually growing pool of job candidates to drive down their cost of recruiting. AllianceQ members share candidates they cannot hire, and candidates get inside access to members’ jobs.

AllianceQ is powered by QuietAgent, an anonymous recruitment agent technology.

For more information, visit: www.AllianceQ.com

About QuietAgent

QuietAgent is an anonymous recruitment agent. Candidates complete an anonymous career profile (résumé), and QuietAgent continually keeps an eye out for their next career step. No searching, no job alerts, no applying to jobs – totally anonymous.

Recruiters use QuietAgent to create a search that instantly shortlists, and continually keeps an eye out for, qualified candidates who want the job.  No job postings, no applicants, no reading mass résumés.

QuietAgent has offices in San Diego, Chicago, New York and Auckland New Zealand.

For more information, visit www.QuietAgent.com

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

CHICAGO, IL (July 16, 2008) – AllianceQ today announced it has entered into a strategic
partnership with the National Urban League. The partnership will introduce QuietAgent (the AllianceQ technology)’s ‘continuous recruitment exchange’ model of fairness, equality and diversity in recruiting, to
members and partners of the National Urban League.

QuietAgent’s candidate matching 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.

“The National Urban League is committed to empowering people to attain good jobs,” said
National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial. “We chose to work with AllianceQ because its QuietAgent technology gives every person a chance to be considered, for every single job.”

QuietAgent CEO Jason Kerr explains, “QuietAgent eliminates recruiting bias by keeping
candidate details private and reviewing every person on a level playing field. Every time an
employer or recruiting agent searches for talent, QuietAgent makes sure that no résumé in the
community is ever overlooked.”

More than two million people will be invited to participate in the program through 100+ local
affiliates of the National Urban League. The League is working closely with AllianceQ and
leading American corporations to promote equality in recruiting and maximize opportunities for
diverse professionals and job seekers.

CHICAGO, July 9, 2008 – A group of industry-leading Fortune 500 companies today launched AllianceQ, an organization created to build a free, exclusive and perpetually growing pool of job candidates to drive down its members’ cost of recruiting. Founding members include Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), Baxter, Best Buy Co., Inc., Entergy Corporation, FPL Group (Florida Power & Light Company, FPL Energy), Starbucks, and Wachovia Corporation.

The technology behind AllianceQ continually matches job candidates to employment vacancies across all Alliance member organizations. The result is that participating companies now have a free way to source new job candidates, and can offer those job candidates they cannot hire, opportunities with other AllianceQ members. The Alliance’s goal is to provide its members with a zero cost recruitment solution for three out of every five jobs.

U.S. employers spend billions of dollars every year in their attempts to reach relevant and qualified candidates. According to Borrell Associates, total recruitment spending is expected to increase from $58 billion in 2008 to $73 billion in 2012. The average cost to obtain an entry-level hire ranges from $3,000 to $6,000 (source: “Making Sense of Recruiting ROI,” Experience.com 2008). For the most part, these investments are not fully utilized and the expenditures to attract job candidates are repeated every year.

AllianceQ was conceived, formed and implemented by QuietAgent (www.quietagent.com) – a third generation recruitment solution – in response to the increasing time, energy and cost corporations often waste while recruiting qualified job seekers.

Jason Kerr, co-chairman of AllianceQ and CEO of QuietAgent, explains, “Collectively, the Fortune 500 is the world’s largest job board. They have all the jobs, they attract the most job candidates, so it just makes sense for them to collaborate resources and help each other save money.”

The founding members of AllianceQ agree.

“Best Buy cares about people and wants them to be excited about bringing their interests and unique talents to work,” said Kristina Parker, director of selection, Best Buy. “Working with AllianceQ ensures that our candidates can be connected to opportunities – inside or outside of Best Buy – that can put their strengths to work.”

“AllianceQ allows us to collaborate with other large corporations to help solve recruiting challenges while offering our candidates a higher level of customer service,” said Janet Manzullo, senior vice president for recruiting, Wachovia Corporation.

“The ‘race-to-talent’ is an issue for corporations of all sizes,” said Peggy Jude, vice president, HR Shared Services, ADP, Inc. “ADP is a worldwide leader in the HR industry and we believe that AllianceQ offers us a unique way to get access to the best candidates in the market today,”

Information about joining AllianceQ is available at: www.allianceq.com.

About AllianceQ
AllianceQ is a program put together by QuietAgent, inviting key employer brands to join an alliance and use the QuietAgent technologies to increase the number of candidates they can reach and improve the quality of the recruitment experience for every applicant that applies to their brand. For more information, visit: www.allianceQ.com.

About QuietAgent
QuietAgent is a continuous recruitment exchange and the pioneer of anonymous mutual matching for jobs. QuietAgent’s third generation recruitment solution considers every candidate for every job, every day and instantly pinpoints the qualified and mutually interested anonymous candidates from a large pool provided by an alliance of large corporations, recruitment providers and other organizations. For more information, visit www.quietagent.com.

About ADP
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NYSE: ADP), with nearly $8 billion in revenues and over 600,000 clients, is one of the world’s largest providers of business outsourcing solutions. Leveraging more than 55 years of experience, ADP offers the widest range of HR, payroll, tax and benefits administration solutions from a single source. ADP’s easy-to-use solutions for employers provide superior value to companies of all types and sizes. ADP is also a leading provider of integrated computing solutions to auto, truck, motorcycle, marine and recreational vehicle dealers throughout the world.

About Baxter International Inc.
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) develops, manufactures and markets products that save and sustain the lives of people with hemophilia, immune disorders, cancer, infectious diseases, kidney disease, trauma, and other chronic and acute medical conditions. As a global, diversified healthcare company, Baxter applies a unique combination of expertise in medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to create products that advance patient care worldwide.

About Best Buy Co., Inc.
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) operates an international portfolio of brands with a commitment to growth and innovation. Our employees strive to provide customers around the world with superior experiences by responding to their unique needs and aspirations.  We sell consumer electronics, home-office products, entertainment software, appliances and related services through nearly 1,300 retail stores across the United States, throughout Canada and in China. Our multi-channel operations include: Best Buy (BestBuy.com, BestBuy.ca and BestBuy.com.cn and BestBuyMobile.com), Future Shop (FutureShop.ca), Geek Squad (GeekSquad.com and GeekSquad.ca), Pacific Sales Kitchen and Bath Centers (PacificSales.com), Magnolia Audio Video (Magnoliaav.com), Jiangsu Five Star Appliance Co. (Five-Star.cn) and Speakeasy (Speakeasy.net). Best Buy supports the communities in which its employees work and live through volunteerism and grants that benefit children and education.

About Entergy Corporation
Entergy Corporation (NYSE:ETR) is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of more than $11 billion and approximately 14,300 employees.

About FPL Group
FPL Group, Inc. (NYSE: FPL) with annual revenues of nearly $16 billion and a growing presence in 26 states, is nationally recognized as one of the country’s premier energy companies. FPL Group’s two principal subsidiaries are Florida Power & Light Company and FPL Energy, LLC. (www.fpl.com). A testament to its long-standing commitment to the environment, FPL Group was the national leader in renewable power generation in 2006. Its approximately 14,000 employees are dedicated to safely providing reliable power while showing genuine concern for their communities and the environment.
Florida Power & Light Company is the largest investor-owned electric utility in Florida, serving more than 4.4 million customer accounts. It is one of the largest and fastest-growing electric utilities in the United States and is the nation’s leading utility in customer energy efficiency programs. FPL Energy is a leader in producing electricity from clean and renewable fuels, a world leader in the development and operation of wind power, and the largest generator of solar power in the nation.

About Starbucks Coffee Company
Since 1971, Starbucks Coffee Company (NYSE:SBUX) has been committed to ethically sourcing and roasting the highest quality Arabica coffee in the world. Today, with nearly 16,000 stores and more than 170,000 partners (employees) in 44 countries, Starbucks is the premier roaster and retailer of specialty coffee in the world. Through its unwavering commitment to excellence and its guiding principles, the unique Starbucks Experience is brought to life for every customer through every cup.

About Wachovia Corporation
Wachovia Corporation (NYSE:WB) is one of the nation’s largest diversified financial services companies, with assets of $808.9 billion and market capitalization of $53.8 billion at March 31, 2008. Wachovia provides a broad range of retail banking and brokerage, asset and wealth management, and corporate and investment banking products and services to customers through 3,300 retail financial centers in 21 states from Connecticut to Florida and west to Texas and California, and nationwide retail brokerage, mortgage lending and auto finance businesses. Globally, clients are served in selected corporate and institutional sectors and through more than 40 international offices. Its retail brokerage operations under the Wachovia Securities brand name manage more than $1.1 trillion in client assets through 18,600 registered representatives in 1,500 offices nationwide.

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