{"id":1660,"date":"2008-07-14T13:38:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T18:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/a-database-of-the-discarded\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T12:47:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T17:47:58","slug":"a-database-of-the-discarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/a-database-of-the-discarded\/","title":{"rendered":"A Database Of The Discarded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A headline from the Wall Street Journal &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121555088193036891.html?mod=\">Employer Alliance Aims To Streamline Recruiting<\/a>.\u00a0 &#8220;Streamline&#8221; is one of those overused business terms that I find annoying.\u00a0 Yet, the article is rather interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seven of the nation&#8217;s largest employers have teamed up to help one another with recruiting. They&#8217;ve formed a consortium called AllianceQ, which allows them and future members to share information about job applicants they don&#8217;t hire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which leads to this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since QuietAgent.com doesn&#8217;t feature job ads, professionals will only learn about career opportunities if employers contact them.<\/p>\n<p>By giving out referrals to QuietAgent.com, AllianceQ members are helping job hunters they don&#8217;t hire find employment elsewhere, says Jason Kerr, chief executive officer of Chicago-based QuietAgent Inc., which publishes both QuietAgent.com and AllianceQ.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which inevitably leads to this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the second quarter of 2009, QuietAgent.com plans to launch a new marketing campaign aimed at getting more small and midsize employers to use it. The campaign will focus on the site&#8217;s new relationship with AllianceQ. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to use the brand power of big businesses to offer small businesses a way to recruit,&#8221; says Mr. Kerr.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The idea seems like a strong leverage point if small businesses can benefit from the large corporations&#8217; vast recruiting efforts.\u00a0 Keep an eye on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A headline from the Wall Street Journal &#8211; Employer Alliance Aims To Streamline Recruiting.\u00a0 &#8220;Streamline&#8221; is one of those overused business terms that I find annoying.\u00a0 Yet, the article is rather interesting: Seven of the nation&#8217;s largest employers have teamed up to help one another with recruiting. They&#8217;ve formed a consortium called AllianceQ, which allows them and future members to share information about job applicants they don&#8217;t hire. Which leads to this: Since QuietAgent.com doesn&#8217;t feature job ads, professionals will only learn about career opportunities if employers contact them. By giving out referrals to QuietAgent.com, AllianceQ members are helping job hunters they don&#8217;t hire find employment elsewhere, says Jason Kerr,&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/a-database-of-the-discarded\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[868,443,165,867,38,555],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-sales","category-trends","tag-candidate-source","tag-candidate-sourcing","tag-job-board","tag-quietagentcom","tag-sales-hiring","tag-sales-recruiting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-qM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":385,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/why-we-do-what-we-do\/","url_meta":{"origin":1660,"position":0},"title":"Why We Do What We Do","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Selling Power has a fantastic article about hiring salespeople - Avoid Hiring Mistakes. 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