February 9, 2010

Upasana Gupta, Contributing Editor for BankInfoSecurity.com, outlines the impact that social media sites such as Facebook, twitter and LinkedIn – as well as new approaches to hiring such as QuietAgent - are having on traditional job boards, which he describes as being ”plagued with perceived shortcomings”.

Read the full article on BankInfoSecurity.com…

KOSU News reports that some of America’s 15 million unemployed are turning to the new generation of job matching websites to improve their chances of finding a job.

Read the full article on KOSU Radio…

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…

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.