Newport-Based Qwiip Launches Innovative Desktop Application to Aid RIers in Their Job Search

Newport-Based Qwiip Launches Innovative Desktop Application to Aid RIers in Their Job Search

Qwiip, a Rhode Island company designed to create online tools to improve education, has launched a free desktop application to assit Rhode Islander search for job opportunities. The innovative app,"delivers hundreds of local job listings to your desktop. The riWorks desktop app provides an on-demand resource and one click access to a host of support services like job training, assistance and networking."

"Our business and technology is about direct connectivity," said Janet Johnson Smith, Co-Founder of Qwiip. “We were intently focused on developing a simple yet powerful solution to help people easily connect to available jobs as well as other valuable resources.”

The economic downturn and the bounty of friends out of work was the spark for the development of riWorks.  The Qwiip team knew many who were overwhelmed by the search process, they were not sure how or where to look for jobs, training and replacement health insurance.

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“Trying to find employment via search engines takes a lot of time, clicks and aspirin,” says Qwiip Co-Founder Hunter J. Guerin. “The riWorks App is meant to ease the pain by making it as easy as possible to find and apply for work as well as locate support.”

The riWorks App delivers hundreds of job listings plus local news, live traffic cameras from around the State, and other convenient features like direct connections to Facebook, Linkedin and statewide services.