About YorZ

What is YorZ?

YorZ is a networking site for career-minded professionals. YorZ is a place for quality jobs and talented professionals not found on job boards.

YorZ combines professional networking, a public job board, and a network of career groups based on companies, schools and professions.

Professionals:

Build and extend your network of professionals in your field
Find and share the latest jobs often not found on job boards
Stand out as pre-qualified to employers

Employers and Recruiters:

Get access to talented candidates that are not searching on job boards
Target your extended network to find great passive candidates
Offer a bounty to encourage referrals of quality candidates

Why use YorZ?

YorZ can help you:

Build and extend your professional network
Get a better job
Hire great candidates

YorZ offers:

A Professional Network. Success in business is often based on who you know and the strength of your network. YorZ can help you extend your network and get you the opportunity or introduction that could make all the difference.

Targeted Groups. Many of the best jobs and candidates are not on the major job boards. YorZ Groups brings together respected professionals from top schools and leading companies. Group members can find and share great job opportunities as part of our targeted invite-only groups.

Quality Referrals. The best employees often come from referrals. Employee referral programs frequently rank as the number one source of quality candidates. YorZ provides tools to solicit, attract and evaluate referrals from your extended network and the YorZ community. Members can earn bounties by making high quality referrals. Or, you can find a great job opportunity. Post a listing or browse / search current listings.

How does referring work?

The Mission of YorZ

We all make decisions. YorZ wants to help you make them better. Ultimately, every decision you make comes down to an inevitable choice between options - call them "Y" and "Z". Our first step toward helping you make better decisions, is YorZ.com.

Widening the Net Helps

Irving Berk, the 100 year-old grandfather of YorZ co-founder (Kevin) was a successful entrepreneur. Irving had a simple method for finding people while recruiting: Ask everyone! With YorZ, you really can widen the net even more effectively than Irving!

Quality, Not Quantity

Steve Jobs wisely said that “A players hire A players.” YorZ helps the A players find one another. YorZ's professional network, targeted groups and referral functionality enable quality companies to connect with top candidates. Targeting your network, posting moderation and YorZ's feedback system help prevent resume spam and junk job postings.

About YorZ

Who founded YorZ?

YorZ was founded by Kevin Berk and Brian Goler.

When was YorZ founded and launched?

YorZ was founded in August of 2004 and launched in March of 2005.

Is it “Y or Z” or “Yours”?

YorZ is pronounced “Y or Z” - symbolizing the inevitable choice between options.

Nonetheless, other variants have been suggested:

“Yours” - as in “The Choice is Yorz.”
“Y O R Z” - short for “Your Online Referral Zone”
“Why oars?” - inquiring about a method of boat transport - often followed by “Why not a motor?”
“Wire Z” - response to “which wire should I cut to deactivate the bomb?”
“Your Z?” - inquiring about someone's Nissan sports car
“Yo, R. Z.!” - salutation to your friend R. Z.
“Y, O, R's” - describing a Scrabble tray with a Y, an O, and 5 R's

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