Human Resources 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.”

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