AllianceQ is a group of industry-leading Fortune 500 companies that have collaborated to build a free, exclusive and continually growing pool of job candidates to drive down their cost of recruiting and give candidates inside access to more opportunities.

Leading American companies are spending billions of dollars every year to reach relevant, qualified candidates, but hire only 1½ percent of their applicants. And, the situation is likely to worsen. Recruitment spending is expected to increase from $58 billion in 2008 to $73 billion in 2012. These investments offer little return, since companies must continually invest in efforts to attract candidates. AllianceQ will drive down recruiting costs by pooling job candidates, giving each member company access to more talent, and giving job candidates inside access to more opportunities.

It builds a large pool of job candidates which AllianceQ member companies can recruit from at no cost.

AllianceQ members are large organizations that receive thousands of job applications every week. Applicants who are not hired are invited by member companies to join AllianceQ as a way to continue their job search, and be introduced to other Alliance member companies that may have a job for them right now.

AllianceQ members do not share nor provide any job seeker information whatsoever. Rather, job seekers are invited to join the Alliance, and those who decide to take up the invitation, elect to provide their information.

Job seekers who join AllianceQ are considered not only for jobs within the AllianceQ member company that invited them, but also for jobs within all the other AllianceQ member companies. Most likely, these job seekers will be considered for jobs they did not know existed.

There are no fees for AllianceQ members. They can search and hire from the job candidate pool for free.

There are no fees for job seekers.

AllianceQ membership is a open to employers that have more than 5,000 employees.

Absolutely. The purpose of the Alliance is to aggregate and leverage the brand power of the Alliance members, so they each get access to more job candidates. It's beneficial for AllianceQ members and their competitors to join the Alliance, along with other large businesses in and around the communities where they operate, to get the best pool of job candidates.

No. Only large organizations with more than 5,000 employees that are Alliance members can access the database, so large companies that do not join the Alliance are not able to benefit from it. And, only members can invite 'non-hired' job seekers to join the Alliance. They must contribute 'supply' in order to 'consume'.

No. Recruitment Agencies can not access AllianceQ's pool of job candidates. AllianceQ is an exclusive system of corporations, for corporations. Our members have specifically told us that they do not want recruitment agencies accessing the exclusive job candidate database they have built, because they do not want these job candidates 'sold' back to them by agencies.

AllianceQ is a free service for its members. AllianceQ was conceived, formed and implemented by QuietAgent, in response to the increasing time, energy and cost corporations often waste while recruiting qualified job seekers.

QuietAgent is an anonymous résumé database that evaluates every résumé, every day, for every job. Since 2004, QuietAgent has been used by employers, recruiters, governments and workforce and community organizations to pinpoint the best qualified and mutually interested anonymous candidates. AllianceQ is powered by QuietAgent.

QuietAgent generates its revenue through employers that are not AllianceQ members, using QuietAgent to find suitable job candidates.

No. QuietAgent developed the 'Alliance' idea, and with the help of the Founding Members, has launched AllianceQ. The Alliance members must now govern the direction of the Alliance, to the extent that they have the ability to replace the QuietAgent technology with another vendor, should QuietAgent fail on several material qualifiers. QuietAgent's involvement in the Alliance is now limited to assisting the Alliance solicit new members, and ensuring that the technology meets and exceeds the demands of all AllianceQ members.

Yes. Employers with fewer than 5,000 employees may join QuietAgent and gain access to and hire from the Alliance job candidates. These employers pay $34.95 for each candidate they interview.

Yes. A small revenue share (15%) is paid to AllianceQ members when a job candidate they referred to the Alliance, chooses to accept an interview with an employer that is not an AllianceQ member. Members have the option to return this revenue share back to the Alliance, to fund internal research programs that review and publish statistical information, trends and white papers to assist the recruitment industry as a whole. Most members have indicated they will either return their revenue share to the Alliance, or give any revenue share they may receive to charities, diversity recruitment programs or other internal initiatives.

• AllianceQ members invite job seekers to join the Alliance
• Those job seekers who choose to join are 'tagged' to the member who invited them
• Non-AllianceQ members (employers with fewer than 5,000 employees), use QuietAgent to find suitable candidates to fill job openings, and may find an AllianceQ job candidate in their search. The employer can then invite that candidate to an interview
• If the candidate agrees to the interview, the employer pays QuietAgent $34.95
• 15 percent of this revenue is paid by QuietAgent to the referring AllianceQ member

AllianceQ technology is all web-based. This means that, on average, new AllianceQ members can be up and running in about two days. It requires no technical integration, CapEx nor OpEx, and no business process changes.

AllianceQ supports any ATS and / or recruitment technology / process. AllianceQ is simply a 'complementary' service that is added to a member's existing recruitment process.

Yes. Nothing changes, you lose no information and every applicant in your Applicant Tracking System remains in your Applicant Tracking System. You are not supplying, giving away nor sharing applicant information in any way whatsoever with AllianceQ.

• Provide members with a zero-cost recruitment solution for three out of every five jobs by late 2009
• Improve the experience for candidates who cannot be hired at this time, by offering them an efficient way to continue their search
• Provide employers that are unable to be AllianceQ members (those with less than 5,000 employees), with a cost effective recruitment solution

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