Yoh Names ProFound as Online Diversity Partner
PHILADELPHIA, PA – June 3, 2004 – Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company and a leading provider of talent and outsourcing solutions in the United States and United Kingdom, today announced the appointment of ProFound as its online diversity recruitment partner. Yoh will leverage its relationship with ProFound to support diversity – one of its core values – and will be uniquely positioned to quickly deliver a multicultural slate of candidates to its customer base from more than 80 locations in the United States and United Kingdom.
The ProFound relationship will allow Yoh recruiters to post all Yoh openings to an online job board and access one of the largest résumé databases of Hispanic and African-American professionals. By connecting La Opinión, the nation's largest Spanish-language daily newspaper, with BlackVoices.com, a leading African-American online destination, ProFound offers one of the leading resources for diversity professionals in the United States.
"We look to bring value to our customers through a highly diversified candidate pool," said Jim Lanzalotto, Vice President of Strategy & Marketing for Yoh. "Our partnership with ProFound provides us with one more unique resource to help us deliver the best available talent to our customers. We look forward to integrating their online service with our other recruiting, referral and networking programs."
Yoh's partnership with ProFound will include job postings, data mining, banner advertising and other media programs.
"We conceived of ProFound as a way to deliver on the cutting-edge diversity recruitment strategies being considered in today's corporate HR departments," says Mary Zerafa, VP of Market Development and New Media for ProFound. "We are deeply gratified that companies of Yoh's stature see the value of promoting themselves to our candidate pools through our service, which seeks and delivers diversity talent where they live online. We are excited about this partnership and look forward to assisting in Yoh's commitment to creating a diversified staff."
About Yoh
Yoh delivers talent and outsourcing solutions to customers in the United States and United Kingdom. As one of the largest staffing services firms in the United States – with more than 415 million USD in total sales – Yoh operates from more than 80 locations and provides long- and short-term temporary and direct placement of technology and professional personnel, as well as managed staffing services, for the telecommunications, scientific, information technology, industrial and engineering communities. For more information, visit yoh.com. Yoh is part of Yoh Services LLC, a Day & Zimmermann Company.
About Day & Zimmermann
Day & Zimmermann accelerates customer success by delivering reliable managed services. Operating from more than 150 worldwide locations with 1.3 billion USD in revenues, the Day & Zimmermann family of companies employs 20,000 professionals and is currently ranked in the top one percent of private companies in America by Forbes. Founded in 1901 and headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, Day & Zimmermann is a former winner of the U.S. National Family Business of the Year award. For more information, visit dayzim.com.
About ProFound
ProFound Diversity Recruiting is the leading recruiting resource for recruiters and HR professionals seeking diverse professionals, and is built upon an alliance of laopinion.com, the website of the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the US, and BlackVoices.com, a leading website for African-Americans. ProFound delivers on the promise of a "one stop shop" that targets and reaches a highly educated, career-oriented diversity audience. ProFound has attracted clients including American Express, City National Bank, Medco Health, Nextel, Office Depot, PacifiCare, REI, Staples, Verizon Wireless and many others. Visit us on the web at www.profoundrecruiting.com.
