Find Your Y or Z Even Faster
Tonight we made the most exciting update to YorZ since our launch. We introduced a number of new features designed to help our members find great jobs and job candidates by leveraging professional networks. This addition is true to our belief that personal referrals are the best way to open up career opportunities. We think these features make a great complement to YorZ Groups, referral tracking and job board listings already available on YorZ.
So why should you connect to friends and colleagues on YorZ?
Connecting with other YorZ members will give you access to job opportunities, professional experts and job candidates in your extended network. Your network enables you to discover connections you have to other YorZ members (e.g., employers, candidates, service providers) and opportunities through the people you already know.
Each time you add a connection on YorZ, you’ll increase the number of opportunities and people available to you. If you’re an employer, connecting with people gives you a new way to use YorZ to leverage your network to identify top job candidates and partners for your business or to get references.
YorZ offers unparalleled ability among today’s job boards and online networking tools to target and connect with the right information and people. YorZ search enables you to home in on opportunities based on keyword, category, location, bounty value, and listing source. Listing sources not only include specific people and companies, but also the various layers within your network (i.e., your friends, friends-of-friends, friends-of-friends-of-friends) and your YorZ groups. When you post a listing, you decide who to target: specific groups and/or layers of your network, or everyone in which case we’ll put your listing on YorZ’s public board and broadcast it to the major job search engines.
Oh, and membership and posting on YorZ remain free.
We’ve included some other goodies in this release, too, to help you take advantage of the new features. Highlights include:
- One Alert Email to rule them all. We’ve beefed up our alerts feature, so that YorZ can now deliver to you a single daily or weekly email of listings relevant to your specific interests. Tailor your alerts to include listings targeting by keyword, category, listing source (your network and/or groups or everything), location, and bounty value. Create a job alert.
- Unified Search Results. We simplified YorZ search results, so that all of your listings are now viewable in a single integrated list of results.
- Navigation Tabs. We made a number of usability improvements. For starters, we’ve added navigation tabs across the top of most pages in hopes of making it easier to get around on YorZ. You may have seen these tabs before - we used the nifty Yahoo Design Patterns library.
- Improved Member Profiles. Adding your professional and eductional history keeps getting easier. In addition, your profile page now lists off all your connections on YorZ. Edit your profile now.
Like all changes to YorZ, these come from the feedback we get from site users. Thank you for the input and please keep it coming (feedback at yorz .dot. com). Given the scope of these site changes, there will most definitely be bugs that need fixing. If you happen to spot any, please send us that feedback, too, and we’ll get right on them.