What is "Recruitment Collaboration"?

image  Over the past few days, I have received a few inquiries from our clients regarding a new service called AllianceQ.  You can read a good post about AllianceQ over at The Talent Buzz.

Every year or so, a new vendor comes along in an attempt to “revolutionize” job boards and siphon off some Monster dollars.  Enterprises rush to sign up but then quickly abandon ship as those solution often over-promise and under-deliver.  Most recently, Jobster was the vendor that claimed job boards are dead and social networks were the future for job search.  To date, they, as well as many others vendors, have produced lackluster results in their quest to crush the job boards (interestingly Jobster’s original claim that Monster sucked because it was littered with garbage advertising has now followed suit). 

Interestingly, based on our survey (membership required) with ERE earlier this year, job boards are not only the most used technology for sourcing and recruiting (89.1%) but also rank as the most effective tool for recruiting, surpassing internet search, social networks, and talent acquisition/ATS.

Based on the press buzz this past week, AllianceQ seems to be this year’s version of the job board killer.  AllianceQ concept is to pool candidates from a bunch of member companies in an attempt to drive down the advertising costs of recruiting.  I guess I need to see more because I’m not sure I get the concept of companies passing on a candidate to then throw that unqualified candidate into a pool of other unqualified candidates.  Am I missing something?

July 16th, 2008

8 Comments Add your own

  • 1. AllianceQ: recruitment co&hellip  |  July 17th, 2008 at 1:23 am

    […] Via The Human Capitalist […]

  • 2. Bill Kutik  |  July 17th, 2008 at 6:05 am

    You are missing something, Jason. Namely that this is not just a Monster-killer but the latest effort since electronic recruiting started in the early 90’s to pool candidates among various hiring companies. And every single one of them has failed. Companies like to keep their candidates to themselves and no amount of cost savings seems to change that basic instinct (apologies to Sharon Stone).

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    […] What is "Recruitment Collaboration"? The "AllianceQ concept is to pool candidates from a bunch of member companies in an attempt to drive down the advertising costs of recruiting." […]

  • 4. Fred Neering  |  July 17th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

    Its seems like everything is a monster killer…you should read the article about the “pay-to-post” model being abandoned by employers here:

    http://www.therecruiterslounge.com/2008/07/17/pay-to-post-verses-pay-for-performance/

  • 5. Jason  |  July 17th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    Jason,

    Thanks for the link to my blog. It shouldn’t take much to finish off Monster since as of a week ago their stock was trading at its’ lowest level since 2003.

    Jason

  • 6. Romuald  |  July 18th, 2008 at 8:45 am

    Jason,
    I agree with Bill, this is not a Monster-killer initiative but rather a shared candidate-pool.
    Since most (all?) of the members have an ATS, most candidates will or rather should) end up with a useful profile, some of them being pre-qualified for certain type of positions.
    As Bill mentions, this is something that is around for a while. Most ATS vendors have played with the idea of sharing candidates between their customers but haven’t been able to sell the idea to these customers. Now, it is the turn of these customers to initiate this project which, imho, makes it much more likely to succeed.
    Succeed as in “providing a valuable source of candidates” not as in “killing Monster”

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  • 8. Are Job Boards Dead, or A&hellip  |  September 23rd, 2009 at 9:33 pm

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