Date: 5 October 2006
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New Zealand software company partners with Forbes.com
QuietAgent.com reinventing careers for 15 million unique visitors
Technology firm StaffCV celebrated a major international milestone this week, with the announcement that its
QuietAgent.com online careers tool has been selected by the world’s leading business resource website, Forbes.com, to
power its career centre.
The partnership will put New Zealand-developed QuietAgent.com in front of some 15 million unique Forbes.com visitors
each month, encouraging them to take a very different approach to considering their next job move. In a $US7b industry
dominated by ‘mega’ US-based job boards such as Monster and Careerbuilder, the deal is considered a significant
endorsement of StaffCV’s vision of the future beyond the aging job board model.
QuietAgent.com was launched in October 2005 to provide a service for an estimated 90 percent of the workforce who are
not actively job seeking. It has been described by online recruiting commentators as “an ingenious twist on the
web-based job board” and is fast gaining attention in a marketplace demanding of new solutions for the cost effective
sourcing of talent.
Jason Kerr, CEO for StaffCV says that the solution boldly challenges the expected norms of online recruiting, by
deviating from the decade-old classified advertising model that is used by job boards. “What we have created is a
totally new process for career seekers and employers to get together. It’s compelling for career seekers because they
can use it in total anonymity, and it’s compelling for employers because they aren’t paying for advertising, but instead
are paying for the success they have in recruiting”.
Forbes, a name synonymous with business and financial success, provides a strong degree of fit with the target audience
of QuietAgent.com. Kerr says “our growth is all about securing quality employed career seekers, which is exactly the
high calibre audience of senior business executives that utilise Forbes.com”. The integration of the QuietAgent.com
toolset for Forbes users continues the media company’s tradition of being one to set industry standards and deliver
innovative products.
QuietAgent.com’s key difference is that it allows career seekers and employers to get together in complete privacy, and
does not attract any fees until this is done successfully. Personal identities are kept secret, and private information
is only shared by a career seeker if they are interested in releasing it to an employer that has invited them to
consider a job opportunity.
In New Zealand, QuietAgent.com is used by the Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITP) to connect students from
its 19 member institutions with jobs, and by Local Government Online (LGOL) to allow people to be found for jobs in
local government. StaffCV’s same underlying technology has powered the Ministry of Social Development’s job matching
solution since 2004, and more recently the Department of Labour’s Skilled Immigrant Recruiting Programme.
With internet traffic six times that of New Zealand’s largest website, Forbes.com will deliver a huge boost for
QuietAgent.com, and stands to benefit partners such as ITP and LGOL, as each of their registered career seekers and
employers can now tap into a wider global employment networking community.
Kerr says that there are other deals in the pipeline that will continue to build the QuietAgent.com global brand, and in
doing so grow the solution into a major force in online recruiting’s future.
About QuietAgent.com™
QuietAgent.com is a discrete two-way career matching portal that provides a service for career seekers to ‘find a job
quietly’. The solution keeps personal identities anonymous, and it is up to career seekers to share their private
information with individual employers. QuietAgent.com is used by recruiting agents and employers globally to source
candidates. Connections between two parties are only ever made if both their needs and desires are met or exceeded.
QuietAgent.com is a product of privately held New Zealand technology company StaffCV. For more information visit
www.quietagent.com and www.staffcv.com
About Forbes.com
The home page for the world's business leaders and the No. 1 business site on the Web, www.forbes.com is among the most
trusted resources for senior business executives. It provides the uncompromising commentary, concise analysis, relevant
tools, community and real-time reporting they need to succeed at work, profit from investing and have fun with the
rewards of winning.
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