SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A COMPANY AND A RECRUITING FIRM

• US 20080301045A1
• Filed: 05/21/2008
• Published: 12/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BountyJobs
• Original Assignee: BountyJobs
• Inventors: Lappin, Jeremy, Hohmann, Mark, Aubin, Jerry, Benskey, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US12/125,005
• Publication Number:
  US 20080301045A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services

Abstract

A system to facilitate engagement and communication between a company with an available position and at least one recruiter includes a server coupled to a computer network, a user interface for co-workers at the company coupled to the server over the computer network and a plurality of co-workers post information to the server about an available position of the company, including a bounty, receive information from the server about candidates for the available position of the company, and select a candidate on the server for the available position, and a user interface for recruiters coupled to the server over the computer network and a plurality of recruiters receive information from the server about an available position of the company and submit information to the server about a candidate for the position of the company.

Claims

1. A system to facilitate engagement and communication between a company with an available position and at least one recruiter, comprising:

a server coupled to a computer network;

a user interface for co-workers at the company, wherein the user interface is coupled to the server over the computer network and allows a plurality of co-workers to post information to the server about an available position of the company, including a bounty, receive information from the server about candidates for the available position of the company, and select a candidate on the server for the available position; and

a user interface for recruiters, wherein the user interface is coupled to the server over the computer network and allows a plurality of recruiters receive information from the server about an available position of the company and submit information to the server about a candidate for the position of the company.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the server transmits a portion of the bounty from the company to a recruiter upon receiving notification of the selection of a candidate for a position of the company.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein a user interface is a web-page viewed in a web-browser.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein a user interface is a rich internet application.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the user interface for co-workers includes a news feed, wherein the news feed displays time stamped activities of the plurality of recruiters.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the user interface for co-workers includes a news feed, wherein the news feed displays time stamped activities of the plurality of co-workers.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein one co-worker selected from the plurality of co-workers has administrative privileges over the news feed displayed for each co-worker.

8. A method to facilitate collaboration and communication between a plurality of co-workers of a company with an available position while interacting with a recruiter, the method comprising the steps of:

a) assigning administrative privileges to the plurality of co-workers;

b) posting information about the available position for the company;

c) posting a bounty for a recruiter that submits information about a candidate that fills the available position;

d) receiving information about a candidate for the available position of the company from the recruiter;

e) upon the selection by the company of a candidate for the available position, transmitting payment to the recruiter.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of transmitting payment to the recruiter includes transmitting a payment to a third party which then transmits a portion of the payment to the recruiter.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein steps (b), (c), (d), and (e) are performed individually by co-workers with necessary administrative privileges to perform the individual step.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein step (a) is performed by a co-worker in the plurality of co-workers, wherein the co-worker is designated as a company administrator.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein a company administrator assigns administrative privileges to co-workers of the plurality of co-workers, wherein the administrative privileges are selected from the group consisting of:

adding new co-workers, deleting co-workers, assigning administrative privileges to co-workers, assigning the task of filling available positions of the company to co-workers, adding new recruiters, blocking recruiters, engaging a recruiter, promoting a recruiter to a preferred recruiter, promoting a recruiter to an enterprise recruiter, and setting a range of bounty amounts for which a co-worker may authorize.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein step (a) is performed by a co-worker in the plurality of co-workers, wherein the administrative privileges are a subset of the administrative privileges available to the company administrator.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising the step of updating a news feed upon actions of steps (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e).

15. The method of claim 14, wherein step (a) is performed by a co-worker in the plurality of co-workers, wherein the co-worker is designated as a company administrator, and includes assigning permission to access news feed updates.

16. The method of claim 8, wherein step (a) is performed by a co-worker in the plurality of co-workers, wherein the co-worker is designated as a company administrator, and includes one selected from the group consisting of:

assigning permission to generate a report on a recruiter, assigning permission to generate a report on a co-worker, assigning permission to access positions of the company, assigning permission to generate a report on a candidate for a position of the company, and assigning permission to participate in the candidate hiring process.

26. The method of claim 8, wherein step (a) is performed by a recruiter in the plurality of recruiters, wherein the recruiter is designated as a recruiting administrator, and includes one selected from the group consisting of:

assigning permission to generate a report on a recruiter, assigning permission to generate a report on a company, assigning permission to access positions of a company, assigning permission to access contact information of a company, assigning permission to view the candidate hiring process, and setting a range of bounty amounts for which a recruiter may submit candidates.

17. A method to facilitate collaboration and communication between a plurality of recruiters while interacting with a company with an available position, the method comprising the steps of:

a) assigning administrative privileges to the plurality of recruiters;

b) receiving information about the available position of the company from the company;

c) receiving a bounty offer for the recruiter that submits information about a candidate that fills the available position of the company from the company;

d) submitting the information about the candidate for the available position of the company to the company; and

e) upon the selection by the company of a candidate for the available position, receiving payment from the company.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the step of receiving payment from the company includes receiving a payment from a third party which transmits a portion of a payment from the company to the recruiter.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein steps (b), (c), (d), and (e) are performed individually by recruiters with necessary administrative privileges to perform the individual step.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein step (a) is performed by a recruiter in the plurality of recruiters, wherein the recruiter is designated as a recruiting administrator.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein a recruiting administrator assigns administrative privileges to recruiters of the plurality of recruiters, wherein the administrative privileges are selected from the group consisting of:

adding new recruiters, deleting recruiters, assigning administrative privileges to recruiters, and assigning the task of filling available positions of the company to recruiters.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein step (a) is performed by a recruiter in the plurality of recruiters, wherein the administrative privileges are a subset of the administrative privileges available to the recruiting administrator.

23. The system of claim 20, wherein the recruiting administrator controls the distribution of bounty payments received among all recruiters in the plurality of recruiters.

24. The method of claim 17, further comprising the step of updating a news feed upon actions of steps (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e).

25. The method of claim 24, wherein step (a) is performed by a recruiter in the plurality of recruiters, and includes assigning permission to access news feed updates.