<h1>Recruiters, what technology invention has changed your job?</h1>
We all love a great &ldquo;tops&rdquo; list. <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/hot-100-turns-60/8468142/hot-100-all-time-biggest-hits-songs-list">Top 100 songs</a> of all time. The 100 <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/100-best-films-ever-hollywood-favorites-818512">best movies</a>. The highest rated athletes. And we can agree to disagree on almost every entry on each ranked list. Likewise, determining which <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6186351/ns/technology_and_science/t/technological-revolution/#.XwzFhpNKhTY">technological invention has had the most influence</a> on our lives can ignite heated debates concerning the &ldquo;chicken before the egg&rdquo; so to speak as to how tech evolved, building off each predecessor, to what it is today (or at least to this nanosecond).
<h2>Top Tech Lists</h2>
The staple mentions make every list but it is generally subjective which ones take top prize - the Telephone? the Personal Computer? the Internet? Electricity? the Smartphone? (It&rsquo;s the Internet, definitely the Internet). But beyond those headlines, there <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/10-breakthrough-technologies/2020/">are new technologies emerging every single day</a> &ndash; or better yet even the slightest tweaks to existing technologies &ndash; that create magnificent change in our daily work and lifestyles. For instance, how does a smartphone know 1) to show the user an ad and 2) send a promotional email about the item a user was searching for on Amazon, last night, from their home computer? Mind-boggling. And amplified by the fact that the email included a timely discount to purchase said item. That is certainly technological convenience at the highest level, driven of course by advanced <a href="https://digitalmarketinginstitute.com/en-us/blog/digital-innovation-and-the-future-of-digital-marketing">digital marketing thinking</a> that occurs with a few data points and the click of a button (and maybe just a smidgen of mind control&hellip;)
Aside from the life conveniences we universally enjoy every day, the technological changes to entire industries are exciting, daunting, necessary and yet not always welcomed at the same time. Can you imagine the life of a graphic designer before Adobe (insert software here)? An architectural firm without CAD, or a delivery service without GPS? The arsenal of rubber cement and x-acto knives, graph paper and street maps gave way to these revolutionary tech advancements and more; and practically every industry can pinpoint when similar changes occurred relative to how they worked, whether they welcomed them or not.
<h2>When Recruiting Got Tech-y</h2>
It&rsquo;s the same experience for the recruiting industry &ndash; whether you&rsquo;re the recruit-ee searching for opportunity or the recruit-er searching for the right hire &ndash; the way the process traditionally unfolded is no longer. A trip down memory lane reveals the moment when a resume printed on crisp, linen paper promptly mailed (then faxed) was replaced by a keyword-parsing ATS that simply scans your upload &ndash; and the hope that someone actually sees it. Or from the time our furiously circle classified ads evolved into receiving a text alert about a job for which we might be a good fit, even though we might not have been necessarily looking for a new position. How did they find you anyway?
Tech has certainly redefined the actions of a recruiter. There is access to an abundance of information about job applicants available through a number of entry points. With so many data options, you might not even know who or what you might be missing. Luckily for recruiters, even with technology moving so fast, there are <a href="https://vimeo.com/380374277">tools available right now to help you</a> hire faster and better, with data-driven decisions. And yes, there will be more choices tomorrow.
So, what&rsquo;s next on the horizon?
If you are immersed in the industry of people and work, and bridging them together, what technology has been the boon, or bane, of your professional existence? 
What do you envision can help, not hinder, you, as a recruiter and HR professional, in the future? 
Our pursuit at QuantumWork is to build tools to connect amazing people to organizations and opportunities. And those tools are borne from what we learn about what is or isn&rsquo;t working from those who share in our pursuit. We&rsquo;d love to hear from you.
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We all love a great “tops” list. Determining which tech invention has had the most influence on our lives can ignite heated debates...

Recruiters, what tech invention has changed your job?

We all love a great “tops” list. Top 100 songs of all time. The 100 best movies. The highest rated athletes. And we can agree to disagree on almost every entry on each ranked list. Likewise, determining which technological invention has had the most influence on our lives can ignite heated debates concerning the “chicken before the egg” so to speak as to how tech evolved, building off each predecessor, to what it is today (or at least to this nanosecond).

Recruiters, what technology invention has changed your job?

<h1 class="yiv5125070488msonormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;">QuantumWork Introduces New Look and Clear Message<o:p></o:p></h1>

<h2 class="yiv5125070488msonormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;">New website reflects simplicity of QuantumWork message and its platform that makes recruiting more efficient and informed.<o:p></o:p></h2>

(CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 30, 2020)&nbsp;QuantumWork, found online at <a href="https://quantum.work/">https://quantum.work</a> has unveiled a newly designed, simplified website that includes a real-time glimpse into its Platform as a Service (&ldquo;PaaS&rdquo;) technology. Their total talent platform allows recruitment, procurement, and talent acquisition leaders to match and stack rank talent fast, and within a single platform, for all forms of work and all forms of talent.<o:p></o:p>
&ldquo;With the myriad of candidate data management systems on the market, and the complexities that exist within so many products, QuantumWork sought to cut through the clutter using the same simplistic approach that our product is known for in our newly designed website,&rdquo; says Alan Barker, Head of Business Development for the Allegis backed Company. &ldquo;Our direction is clear and definitive &ndash; simply answering the questions &lsquo;what is QuantumWork?&rsquo; and &lsquo;who should use it?&rsquo;&rdquo;<o:p></o:p>
The new site, which is powered by QuantumWork, is a natural extension of the core platform and continues to expand its omni-channel capabilities.&nbsp; This addition enables an improved candidate experience while providing full customization of externally facing pages. Visitors can sample the product for a user-driven demonstration (<a href="https://quantum.work/jobs">https://quantum.work/jobs</a>), providing a glimpse into the improved candidate experience and easy approach to talent acquisition.<o:p></o:p>
The release of the new online look underscores the timeliness of the QuantumWork product that is poised to support job recovery in response to the COVID-19 crisis.&nbsp; The technology has specific benefits for candidates, employees and employers as the economic re-opening is underway.&nbsp; QuantumWork technology can make displaced workers more visible to potential employers, and more easily searchable for rehire in the near future based upon their unique skills and qualifications.&nbsp;QuantumWork delivers talent data and labor market analytics across all worker classifications and talent types.<o:p></o:p>
Barker adds, &ldquo;While talent data is currently housed in separate silos in any given organization, QuantumWork leverages the intelligent algorithms built into the platform to provide a single, simple view of all existing data components. Our tech ensures that recruiters and talent acquisition professionals see the entire talent landscape, to be able to fill open roles quickly and efficiently as organizations seek to rebuild.&rdquo;<o:p></o:p>
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About QuantumWork
<o:p></o:p>QuantumWork&rsquo;s comprehensive platform provides complete visibility across talent systems and sources so that companies can make better hires faster. By extending and augmenting, rather than replacing existing ATS and VMS tools, QuantumWork aggregates these various data sources into a single, simple solution which provides access to all talent, all in one place.<o:p></o:p>
QuantumWork&rsquo;s unique approach produces effective insights that help find the most relevant candidates in an efficient and organized way.&nbsp; Based on actual data specific to a company, industry, and job function, QuantumWork provides the ability to hire better, faster with data-driven decisions. To learn more, visit&nbsp;<a href="http://quantum.work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quantum.work</a>.<o:p></o:p>

QuantumWork unveiled a newly designed website that includes a real-time glimpse into its Platform as a Service (“PaaS”) technology.

QuantumWork Introduces New Look and Clear Message

QuantumWork, found online at https://quantum.work has unveiled a newly designed, simplified website that includes a real-time glimpse into its Platform as a Service (“PaaS”) technology. Their total talent platform allows recruitment, procurement, and talent acquisition leaders to match and stack rank talent fast, and within a single platform, for all forms of work and all forms of talent.

Missed opportunities are one of the biggest challenges to career advancement, and employers are feeling the impact. Lacking visibility into vacancies within an enterprise, employees leave the organization for new offers. Likewise, full-time, contingent workers, and contractors often start looking for their next gig in other companies because they are unaware that their services are needed in another division or location within their current employer.
The culprits behind these missed opportunities are silos of data that provide limited visibility into opportunities for employees or current contractors. Often, once someone becomes employed by an organization, the only information about the worker is tucked away in the HR system. As a result, a hiring manager for a new assignment or vacancy may never be aware of the person&rsquo;s availability or qualification. If you are a contractor, you are only seen through the VMS, and if you are a freelancer, your digital presence may only be in the payroll system that processes your check. In other words, if you&rsquo;re a worker, you&rsquo;re invisible to managers who may need your services.
Bridging the Silos of Talent
To stay engaged with the employer, flexible workers want a system to provide visibility to managers and opportunities, and that&rsquo;s a problem we&rsquo;re helping companies solve on an enterprise scale. The solution, delivered through our QUANTUMWORK strategy and technology platform, gives non-employee workers, recruiters, and managers a view to all opportunities across a company, and it gives managers a look into the flexible talent at work in their organization. For example, knowing the end-date of their project is approaching in several months, workers can check the system to see what opportunities are available in other areas, giving them a chance to book their next gig without looking outside the current employer.
For the manager, QUANTUMWORK solves the visibility problem by intelligently organizing talent. The hiring manager can search and match across the entire enterprise. The system provides access to available people, as well as insight on the work that needs to be done. It&rsquo;s not always about connecting one professional to one role. It could be a project that requires two contractors, a contingent worker, and two full-time or traditional employees.
Through the system, recruiters or managers can assess the body of work to accomplish and then look at the whole pool of available talent to arrive at a solution.
The Employer Vision: From Job Provider to Career Ecosystem
Moving forward, platforms such as QUANTUMWORK will become an anticipated part of the employee and flexible worker experience, where workers can start treating employers as an ecosystem of career opportunities rather than the provider of a single job. The employer that doesn&rsquo;t step up to this expectation will likely lose workers who move to employers that do. Career mapping, success planning, skills development, and matching all forms of work to all forms of talent &mdash; it&rsquo;s all part of the vision of a truly connected employee experience. By eliminating the silos of data and barriers to opportunity, we are bringing that vision to life.
<blockquote>
(This article originally appeared in&nbsp;&ldquo;<a href="https://learn.allegisglobalsolutions.com/technology_innovation?ecid=sm_ags_n_gen_xx_gs%E2%80%94%20smrtp_xx_xx_xx_20190522_0ba07a15">Smart Power: A Glance at Evolving Talent Technologies</a>.&rdquo;&nbsp;The report shares&nbsp;how&nbsp;advances in technology across talent evaluation, selection, and onboarding, as well as employee development and retention, translate to a real advantage for employers and workers.&nbsp;<a href="https://learn.allegisglobalsolutions.com/technology_innovation?ecid=sm_ags_n_gen_xx_gs%E2%80%94%20smrtp_xx_xx_xx_20190522_0ba07a15">Click here</a>&nbsp;to download your free copy.)
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Missed opportunities are one of the biggest challenges to career advancement, and employers are feeling the impact. Lacking visibility into vacancies within an enterprise, employees…

Turning Visibility into Opportunity

Turning Visibility into Opportunity: An Advantage for Employees and Flexible Workers

<h1>QuantumWork, The Technology Business of Allegis Global Solutions, Offers Solutions to Help Displaced Workers Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic and Financial Crisis</h1>
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<h2>Companies furloughing workers or downsizing can utilize the QuantumWork technology as part of off-boarding solution</h2>
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(CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 5, 2020) QuantumWork, found online at <a href="http://quantum.work/">quantum.work</a>, is employing its Platform as a Service (&ldquo;PaaS&rdquo;) technology to help displaced workers during the current Covid-19 crisis and global economic shutdown.&nbsp; With global unemployment claims reaching staggering numbers, including millions per week in the United States alone, the total talent solution offered by QuantumWork allows recruitment, procurement and HR leaders to match and stack rank talent fast. Within a single platform, candidates are run against all of their open positions, including traditional employment, contingent and on-demand work.
The technology has specific benefits for both employees and employers during this time of economic shutdown and rapidly increasing global unemployment.&nbsp; For companies facing downsizing, adding displaced workers to the QuantumWork technology will make them more visible to potential employers, and more easily searchable for rehire in the near future based upon their unique skills and qualifications.&nbsp; And for employees furloughed or displaced, the technology will improve their ability to be rehired by increasing their visibility specific to matching positions.
&ldquo;Despite the unprecedented effects of Covid-19 and the surrounding global economic shut-down, organizations are still hiring, and companies continue to search for talented workers,&rdquo; said Randy Gulian, General Manager for QuantumWork.&nbsp; &ldquo;Our QuantumWork technology can help expedite the process and place workers in positions fast&mdash;whether it is full-time employment, part-time, contract or on-demand.&rdquo;&nbsp; 
Steve Parker, Head of Product and Technology mentioned, &ldquo;QuantumWork is&nbsp;adapting&nbsp;to the current situation in order to help furloughed or displaced workers improve their opportunity to be rehired while helping organizations plan for the tough decisions they might have to make within the current global crisis.&rdquo;
QuantumWork, an autonomous startup fully funded and supported by Allegis Global Solutions, is the first product on the market to deliver talent data and redeployment capabilities across all worker classifications and talent.
Because QuantumWork indexes all data from all forms of talent from millions of proprietary and external data points and compares these with historical data, QuantumWork leverages the intelligent algorithms built into the &ldquo;Quantum Core&rdquo; platform to automatically search, match and rank the most relevant candidates across an employers&rsquo; different talent pools and databases.
Gulian concluded, &ldquo;our tech makes it easy to search and match workers to soon-to-be open jobs and roles.&nbsp; The goal is to get your downsized employees back to work in the most efficient manner possible.&rdquo;
To learn more about QuantumWork, or to utilize the QuantumWork platform in support of your efforts to mitigate the economic effects of Covid-19, visit&nbsp;<a href="http://quantum.work/">quantum.work</a>.
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About QuantumWork
QuantumWork&rsquo;s comprehensive talent platform provides complete visibility across talent systems and sources so that companies can make better hires faster. By extending and augmenting, rather than replacing existing CRM, ATS and VMS systems, QuantumWork aggregates these various data sources into a single, simple solution which provides access to all talent, all in one place.
QuantumWork&rsquo;s unique approach produces highly personalized results that help find not only the most relevant candidates but also those most&nbsp;likely to succeed based on actual data specific to a company, industry and job function. QuantumWork means all your talent, all in one place. To learn more, visit&nbsp;<a href="http://quantum.work/">quantum.work</a>.

QuantumWork is employing its Platform as a Service (“PaaS”) technology to help displaced workers during Covid-19 and the economic shutdown.

QuantumWork, Offers Solutions to Help Displaced Workers

Companies furloughing workers or downsizing can utilize the QuantumWork technology as part of off-boarding solution. QuantumWork, found online at quantum.work, is employing its Platform as a Service (“PaaS”) technology to help displaced workers during the current Covid-19 crisis and global economic shutdown.  With global unemployment claims reaching staggering numbers, including millions per week in the United States alone, the total talent solution offered by QuantumWork allows recruitment, procurement and HR leaders to match and stack rank talent fast. Within a single platform, candidates are run against all of their open positions, including traditional employment, contingent and on-demand work.

QuantumWork Offers Solutions to Help Displaced Workers Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic and Financial Crisis

I know, I&rsquo;m out here shilling for a startup on behalf of my day job, so that makes me a giant hypocrite, considering my long battle against the conflagration of sales pitches and content marketing (they&rsquo;re more or less different means, same end, admittedly).
But the thing is, I don&rsquo;t ever endorse products I think suck &ndash; in the almost half a decade I worked at Monster, guess how many nice things I had to say about our roadmap or employer product? Ditto the, er, global HR Tech provider whose marketing department I was hired to support in advance of their move into talent acquisition from L&amp;D (don&rsquo;t look at my LinkedIn, it could be any company).
Both of these companies are somehow still around, only one is no longer a component of the S&amp;P 500 index (or even on the market), and one of them has lost more market cap in the last year since WeWork. I guess you could blame the brand marketing hire who&rsquo;s an &ldquo;industry expert,&rdquo; but I jumped ship a long time ago, and both times, for the same reason: I won&rsquo;t be affiliated with a brand I don&rsquo;t believe in.
Even when I was ostensibly an independent journalist, my partners at Recruiting Daily probably never loved the fact that I refused to present with, write about or byline anything that was paid for with good money, but from bad vendors.
A week in, I almost got canned when I publicly denounced an email blast that had my name as the sender endorsing the Ladders Mobile App (that was the last one that went out in my name without a perfunctory edit); our biggest client when I was hired, for context, was LinkedIn.
A couple months in, we ran a Valentine&rsquo;s related, cobranded content package on &ldquo;falling in love with a candidate.&rdquo; Yeah, I know &ndash; that well ran dry pretty quickly when we dispensed with the conversation hearts and actually asked recruiters what they thought about the product and its ROI. Not to mention the lawsuits (I can&rsquo;t by consent decree).
It&rsquo;s no secret that I think most recruiting products are pretty crap &ndash; a position that&rsquo;s gotten me into a lot of trouble over the years, but one that I have to abide. Recruiting is hard, man &ndash; and having a bad system can make even a good TA gig absolutely miserable. Problem is, no one ever says anything, as long as the checks cash, analysts and &ldquo;influencers&rdquo; included. I&rsquo;m neither.
I just geek out for HR Tech, which is not something I would have expected to ever admit openly. The 17 year old version of me hates myself right now for that, but it&rsquo;s true &ndash; a lot of HR Tech is actually really, really cool.
The problem is, while we have the potential to change the way people find jobs, and people find work, often the best interests of our software and services providers win out over meaningful change, embracing the status quo at the expense of both recruiters and candidates.
Our industry could be actually transformative. Instead, we&rsquo;re too busy quibbling over SMB market share for CRM solutions, or whether AI and ML are synonymous, or some crap like that, to really make any sort of meaningful difference. As important as candidate experience is, if looking for a job still sucks, and fully 1 out of 3 candidates quit within the first year, and over half of us report having terrible onboarding or transition experiences when moving to new employers, it&rsquo;s really irrelevant. If anything, the ones who didn&rsquo;t make it might just be the lucky ones, after all.
That&rsquo;s a lot of pretense for this post. But here&rsquo;s the thing. I really, really like QuantumWork a lot. And I think you will, too. The reasons are more or less outlined above, but it does what I think every talent tech platform should, and all too few actually do.
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<li>If You&rsquo;re Stuck With Bad HR Tech, There&rsquo;s Hope:&nbsp;QuantumWork augments and extends the capabilities of legacy systems instead of building a better mousetrap for the same profiles and candidate data. That means you can teach an old ATS or VMS new tricks, and extract value from an investment that started depreciating decades ago, without going through the whole selection, migration and implementation nightmare that&rsquo;s inevitable even amongst the most cutting edge of people platforms.</li>
<li>Beyond Classification:&nbsp;It solves an actual business problem, unlike 99.9% of VC backed plays out there. Back a lifetime ago, when I was recruiting onsite at an RPO, I was consistently the top performer in the TA organization (in terms of filling reqs, if not entirely playing the game). I got plaques and gift certificates and stuff every month just because I knew how to batch upload Google results into a proprietary ATS, which apparently makes you a boy wonder. The CHRO actually made it a point to have me in meetings (this was fun while it lasted). But I was a consultant, and my badge was red, not blue. This meant I couldn&rsquo;t eat in the cafeteria, had to park in a different lot, didn&rsquo;t get to go to company meetings or retreats, and according to the corporate directory, my actual last name was &ldquo;*Contractor.&rdquo; I didn&rsquo;t care who was paying me, but our RPO team had the drive, talent and results to put our in-house counterparts to shame.If companies realize that the best workers don&rsquo;t always work for them, and search for the best matches on the market without paying attention to classification, everyone wins.I truly believe that QuantumWork can help democratize workplace access, and ensure that companies see their total talent picture, and not just the ones who come in through an ATS for FTE roles. Data doesn&rsquo;t discriminate, and by standardizing and structuring people information from across systems, we can finally judge workers not by the color of their badge, but by the product of that work and the organizational impact it objectively has. I think QuantumWork can help employers turn inclusion from a TA buzzword into a workforce planning and talent management imperative by ensuring that recruiters can have a single view of talent, no matter how fractured their workforce.</li>
<li>Products are Built by People.&nbsp;Pretty much everyone who&rsquo;s even tangentially related to startups knows that their relative success or failure isn&rsquo;t driven by the product, provided that product isn&rsquo;t vaporware, is legal and delivers more or less as promised. It&rsquo;s the people &ndash; the Steve Jobs&rsquo; (how do you pluralize that, by the way), the Elon Musks (if you&rsquo;re into that kind of thing) and the Stanford CS Alumni Association who are the real reasons startups succeed (Zuck, looking at you), fail (uh, Zenefits guy, why are you still here) or succeed and fail spectacularly (Elizabeth Holmes and Meg Whitman, for example, or the tech bros behind WeWork and Tom from MySpace). And the people building QuantumWork know what they&rsquo;re doing just about as well as any team in the industry. From Steve Parker, who actually ran IT Professional Services and Strategic Sourcing at Lowe&rsquo;s (if you think hiring is hard from a tech perspective, try literal hardware) to the single data scientist building an algorithm in a matter of months that can actually go head to head with most any job matching or data mining tool in talent today, these are smart people. The exception, of course, is Alan Barker, but he&rsquo;s in sales, so you can&rsquo;t have it all &ndash; and with him, you have to settle for industry knowledge and doing a real demo instead of looking at some specious deck with a &ldquo;Hiring is Broken&rdquo; slide just for show, I promise.I&rsquo;ve seen the team pitch this product dozens of times, and I don&rsquo;t yet want to slit my wrists. Trust me, it&rsquo;s worth a half-hour &ndash; even if you don&rsquo;t buy it, you can at least waste Barker&rsquo;s time, and that&rsquo;s a win for everyone.I kid because I love. And there&rsquo;s a whole lot to love with the people who are putting their passion into a product that&rsquo;s actually, well, pretty awesome (and getting better literally every day, they&rsquo;ve got some world-class developers). Plus, they&rsquo;re not from hella Silicon Valley, which means that they get the real world and real recruiting &ndash; which you do when you happen to be located in Charlotte, America&rsquo;s diabetes and banking capital (no pun intended). I&rsquo;m not trying to score points with my coworkers; they work with me, so you know how they feel about me already. I&rsquo;m just saying when it comes to the intangibles, I think this is a team that can give you the product you need with the support you want. This is a low baseline, but few startups in this space ever manage to have decent people working on people products &ndash; and about all a buyer can control for in today&rsquo;s talent tech market.</li>
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So, yeah. I guess what I&rsquo;m saying is, I rarely publicly endorse products. Never in my career have I given public plaudits to any product which also had me on payroll, because, well, I&rsquo;m not going to shill stuff just because it&rsquo;s my job to market it. In this case, it&rsquo;s not my job at all; that would be Mr. Craig Fisher (@Fishdogs on Twitter, y&rsquo;all).
But I&rsquo;ve always felt it&rsquo;s my job to let recruiting and HR leaders know about what&rsquo;s worth watching in terms of talent acquisition technology, and which few products actually live up to the hype for recruiting and hiring. Which is why I&rsquo;m bylining this blog post.
I&rsquo;m not trying to sell anything, for the record. QuantumWork kind of does that during a demo &ndash; which I was definitely not expecting the first time I saw it. I was expecting my &ldquo;honest feedback&rdquo; would be anything but; instead, my honest feedback is that they managed to prove me wrong and build a product that&rsquo;s worthy of promoting.
This is not a sponsored post, and any opinions expressed herein are entirely my own, and not necessarily those of Allegis Global Solutions. Just like everything else I put out there.

I know, I’m out here shilling for a startup on behalf of my day job, so that makes me a giant hypocrite, considering my long battle against the conflagration of sales pitches and content marketing (they’re more or less different means, same end, admittedly).

You Should Buy This

I’ve Never Sold Anything Before. But You Should Buy This.

Hi, I&rsquo;m Steve Parker. It&rsquo;s a pretty exciting day for the Charlotte team, as we officially opened up&nbsp;<a href="http://quantum.work/">QuantumWork</a>&nbsp;for general availability today (<a href="http://www.insidetalent.org/quantumwork-press-relea">click here</a>&nbsp;to read the official press release).
Of course, this news is a little bit surreal, too &ndash; the culmination of the many months it&rsquo;s taken to turn QuantumWork from little more than a few notes on a whiteboard to a powerful platform that&rsquo;s not only a robust initial release but one that will continue to rapidly evolve.
I know I&rsquo;m probably a bit biased, but I&rsquo;m really proud of the technology we&rsquo;ve built, and even more proud of the team responsible for taking a leap of faith and rolling up their sleeves to turn an idea &ndash; maybe more of a vision, really &ndash; into a reality.
I&rsquo;m not just saying that &ndash; from our data science leaders to our product teams to our program managers, QuantumWork proves its basic premise: that when you have access to top talent and can match the right talent with the right opportunity, the world of work works a whole lot better for everyone.
Every day, my job is a great reminder that work (and life) is easier when you hire better. And while I can&rsquo;t say building a platform more or less from scratch in a couple of months was by any means easy, the fact that it was possible at all is a proof of concept for the platform we&rsquo;ve been building together.
Here&rsquo;s the thing: a couple of months ago, we were nothing more than a logo, a high concept and me, sitting at a borrowed desk buried in the back of an office a thousand miles or so away from most of my colleagues and coworkers.
When&nbsp;<a href="https://www.allegisglobalsolutions.com/en/integrated-talent-solutions/quantumwork">Allegis Global Solutions</a>&nbsp;told me that they were expecting QuantumWork to function as a true startup, man, they weren&rsquo;t lying &ndash; once the plan was approved, we were given the green light to build the proposed product, and then it was time to just figure it out if we&rsquo;re being honest.
The reality &ndash; I was bit nervous, and unsure &ndash; at least at first, but, I like to focus on outcomes, impact and enjoy a challenge so this was definitely where I wanted to be.
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Once we started hiring for our team, however, I admit I went from cautious to confident pretty quickly. That&rsquo;s because while everyone brought something different to the development process, we all bought into the same vision. It&rsquo;s a simple one, really: to help make recruiting the right talent at the right time for the right job more efficient and effective for employers everywhere.
We get it &ndash; after all, I had to hire architects, developers and data scientists in Charlotte over the past few months. I&rsquo;ll be the first to tell you that there&rsquo;s more competition, fewer qualified candidates and more open roles to fill than ever before. That&rsquo;s why getting total talent right is more important than ever before, too.
Whether you&rsquo;re one of the multinational employers we&rsquo;ve traditionally supported at AGS, or a startup that&rsquo;s looking to hire the world-class team required to build a world-class product in world record time, business success comes down to hiring success. I know it&rsquo;s kind of trite to talk about people being our greatest asset &ndash; and it&rsquo;s not even totally true. &nbsp;In the knowledge economy, they&rsquo;re really the only asset that matters.
No pressure.
<h2>ALL YOUR TALENT, ALL IN ONE PLACE.</h2>
This is where QuantumWork comes into play. That&rsquo;s because filling your jobs is our job. We built our platform to solve real hiring challenges, not to create more complexity for candidates or talent teams. We believe in the power of technology to transform the way businesses hire, and we believe in the power of people to transform the way business gets done.
Here at QuantumWork, we believe that total talent should be about getting work done, not getting reqs filled.
We believe that true talent can&rsquo;t truly be classified, and we believe that the impact of individual workers on your business and the bottom line is more important than the titles on their business cards.
Most importantly,&nbsp;we&nbsp;believe&nbsp;in the power of people to power our organizations forward today, and tomorrow.&nbsp;We&nbsp;believe&nbsp;that talent is the only true competitive advantage every company has and that the only way to win in business is to be the best &ndash; and the best work only happens with the best people, no matter where in the world of work they happen to be working.
We&nbsp;believe&nbsp;in the power of high tech to power high touch, and&nbsp;we believe&nbsp;that no matter how good software or the system might be, total success at total talent is impossible without having the right processes and people in place, first.
Which is why&nbsp;we&nbsp;believe&nbsp;that with QuantumWork, the future of work is right now. All the talent you need. All in one place.
Well, believe&nbsp;it.
<h2>QUANTUMWORK: MY SINGLE VIEW OF TALENT</h2>
I know what you&rsquo;re thinking. But trust me, I&rsquo;ve spent enough time looking at enough HR Tech to know that this isn&rsquo;t just another product, because, well, QuantumWork was built to address a market need, not as a &ldquo;me too&rdquo; sort of solution where there are already plenty of options to choose from.
Nope. We&rsquo;re sort of different. We don&rsquo;t come from Silicon Valley. We&rsquo;re in Charlotte, home of banking and BBQ. We aren&rsquo;t building a product for investors or for shareholders. We&rsquo;re building it for the end users responsible for sourcing, recruitment and hiring.
We&rsquo;re not building it for a professional niche or specialized vertical &ndash; we&rsquo;re building it to work across every workforce, for every worker, anywhere in the world of work. Our roadmap is motivated by our team&rsquo;s experience in the talent trenches, and we&rsquo;re building the product we and our client want, not a company that we&rsquo;re trying to sell.
That makes us unique from most startups. So too does the support of Allegis and their unparalleled talent intelligence and global recruitment expertise.
We don&rsquo;t mind not being the typical startup &ndash; in fact, we believe taking a different approach than the rest of the market is one of our primary competitive advantages.
After all, we&rsquo;re not AI.&nbsp;We&rsquo;re not big data.&nbsp;We&rsquo;re not a VMS, or an ATS, or a CRM.&nbsp;We&rsquo;re not an HCM, either. And no.&nbsp;We&rsquo;re not some fancy point solution for sourcing, and&nbsp;we&rsquo;re not the silver bullet for employer branding.
That&rsquo;s because QuantumWork is a new kind of platform for a new kind of worker and a new world of work.&nbsp;We don&rsquo;t fit into a category, and we&rsquo;re not easily classified &ndash; just like the workers you&rsquo;re trying to hire. The results speak for themselves.
<h2>FORECASTING THE TALENT CLOUD: HOW QUANTUMWORK WORKS.</h2>
Just like a search engine uses an algorithm to guess which&nbsp;websites are the most relevant to users, QuantumWork combines millions of external and proprietary data points with your company&rsquo;s historical hiring data to return the candidates that are the most relevant to you.
Because we index all data from all forms of talent, QuantumWork provides highly personalized results to help you find not only the most relevant candidates, but also, the ones that are the likeliest to succeed based on actual data specific to your company, industry and job function.
<figure id="attachment_535" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-535" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img class="size-full wp-image-535" src="https://quantum.work/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/QuantumWork_Core.jpg" alt="QuantumWork" width="800" height="450" srcset="https://quantum.work/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/QuantumWork_Core.jpg 800w, https://quantum.work/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/QuantumWork_Core-300x169.jpg 300w, https://quantum.work/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/QuantumWork_Core-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" />
<figcaption id="caption-attachment-535" class="wp-caption-text">A visualization of the QuantumWork Core. All your talent, all in one place.</figcaption>
</figure>
With QuantumWork, you get one single view of talent, without having to switch between point solutions and without the inordinate time, expense and threshold for pain required to survive most implementations or even integrations.
QuantumWork wasn&rsquo;t built as a system of record, and is designed to augment and enhance, rather than replace, your existing technology investments.&nbsp;We&nbsp;seamlessly combine all the people data from all private and public systems to create a single view of talent that makes it easy to see, search and select the best talent available across all your systems. After all, you can&rsquo;t see the big picture with the small view of a single system or solution.
And when it comes to hiring, that&rsquo;s the bottom line.
Recruiting is everyone&rsquo;s job.&nbsp;We&nbsp;think it&rsquo;s time&nbsp;we&nbsp;gave everyone the tools to do that job as effectively and efficiently as possible.
<h2>FIT HAPPENS.</h2>
QuantumWork alleviates the burden of sourcing, manually shortlisting and identifying qualified candidates from sea of profiles that aren&rsquo;t a fit. Recruiters and talent managers will have more time to do what they do best, the human elements of recruiting.
Screening, slating or identifying qualified submittals is more effective with QuantumWork. That means you can stop losing candidates and start extending offers &ndash; early QuantumWork users reduced time to fill by an average of 65%.
That might sound impressive, but with hiring and talent managers able to see candidates for open roles in a matter of minutes, not days or&nbsp;weeks, it not only saves a lot of time, but a lot of hiring headaches, too.
It&rsquo;s important to remember that today&rsquo;s launch isn&rsquo;t the end, but just the beginning for QuantumWork. The real work starts now that we&rsquo;re dealing with real workers &ndash; but from our robust (and aggressive) roadmap to our premiere marketplace partners to our (growing) team, we&rsquo;ve got a lot to look forward to in the future. The journey is just beginning, and we hope you&rsquo;ll join us along the way.
After all, QuantumWork makes fit happen.&nbsp;We&rsquo;ll get your fit figured out, too.

It’s a pretty exciting day for the Charlotte team, as we officially opened up QuantumWork for general availability today

The Future of Work is Right Now!

It’s a pretty exciting day for the Charlotte team, as we officially opened up QuantumWork for general availability today.

The Future of Work is Right Now: Meet QuantumWork

<h2 class="x_MsoNormal">New Comprehensive Talent Platform Offers Unparalleled Visibility across Talent Systems and Sources to Speed Up and Improve Hiring</h2>
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &mdash;&nbsp;<a href="http://quantum.work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">QuantumWork</a>, a comprehensive total talent solution that allows recruitment, procurement and HR leaders to see and understand their talent data, today announced the public release and general availability of its new integrated platform.
QuantumWork, an autonomous startup fully funded and supported by the Allegis Group, provides employers with unparalleled visibility into workforce analytics and talent data by providing a single view of all forms of talent, from contractors to full-time employees and on-demand talent.
<blockquote>
&ldquo;We believe that talent is no longer classified by employment status and that the best work happens when you&rsquo;ve got the best workers,&rdquo; said Steve&nbsp;Parker, head of product for QuantumWork. &ldquo;And today, the fact is the best workers often don&rsquo;t actually work for your company at all. With QuantumWork, employers will not only get a consolidated view of all available talent across all systems and databases but also, have the ability to match all forms of talent, including contractors, consultants, employees and temporary workers, with actual work requirements.&rdquo;
</blockquote>
Because QuantumWork indexes all data from all forms of talent from millions of proprietary and external data points and compares these with historical data, QuantumWork leverages the intelligent algorithms built into the &ldquo;Quantum Core&rdquo; platform to automatically search, match and rank the most relevant candidates across an employers&rsquo; different talent pools and databases.
Based on a serverless architecture hosted in AWS, QuantumWork provides a highly secure, highly scalable and highly configurable environment to integrate its multi-tenant solution with core HCM, ATS and VMS data.
By adding contingent and on-demand workers to its talent intelligence and workforce analytics capabilities, QuantumWork is the first product on the market to deliver talent data and workforce planning capabilities across all worker classifications and talent types.
<blockquote>
&ldquo;At a time when so many solutions claim to be&nbsp;something&nbsp;they&rsquo;re not, QuantumWork is offering employers an actionable, measurable way to approach recruiting,&rdquo; said HRExaminer founder and leading HR technology analyst John Sumser. &ldquo;Having&nbsp;this&nbsp;level of visibility across systems is invaluable, and makes it easier to understand what actually works when it comes to hiring.&rdquo;
Randy Gulian, General Manager for QuantumWork, added, &ldquo;The way we look at it, finding talent shouldn&rsquo;t be as hard as it is, especially when you consider the amount of data available. QuantumWork helps solve the problems many organizations face while offering employers both the direction and roadmap needed to make the right hires.&rdquo;
</blockquote>
To learn more about QuantumWork, visit&nbsp;<a href="http://quantum.work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">quantum.work</a>.
<h2>About QuantumWork</h2>
QuantumWork&rsquo;s comprehensive talent platform provides complete visibility across talent systems and sources so that companies can make better hires faster. By extending and augmenting, rather than replacing existing CRM, ATS and VMS systems, QuantumWork aggregates these various data sources into a single, simple solution which provides access to all talent, all in one place.
QuantumWork&rsquo;s unique approach produces highly personalized results that help find not only the most relevant candidates but also those most&nbsp;likely to succeed based on actual performance data specific to a company, industry and job function. QuantumWork means all your talent, all in one place. To learn more, visit&nbsp;<a href="http://quantum.work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">quantum.work</a>.
Media Contact: Steve Parker QuantumWork parker@quantum.work