Method and system for generating referrals for job positions based upon virtual communities comprised of members relevant to the job positions

• US 7,188,074 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2004
• Issued: 03/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Accolo
• Original Assignee: Accolo
• Inventors: Younger, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Jeanty; Roman
• Application Number:
  US10/941,499
• Publication Number:
  US 20050102174A1
• Time in Patent Office: 903 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1, 705/7, 705/9, 707/104.1
• US Class Current: 705/7.14
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063112 Skill-based matching of a person or a group to a task
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1053 Employment or hiring
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0205 Location or geographical consideration

Abstract

The invention includes three primary methodical tools. The first tool implements a job recruiting toolkit. The second tool implements a method of generating referrals based upon a virtual community of people who relate to the job description. The third tool implements an enterprise recruitment toolkit.

Claims

1. A system generating referrals for at least one job positions based upon at least one virtual community comprised of at least one member of said virtual community relevant to said job positions, comprising:

a server controlled by a server computer accessibly coupled to a memory;

said server communicatively coupled to said employee of said corporate entity and said job hunter;

and said server computer operated by a program system comprising the program steps residing in said memory of the program steps of;

maintaining a reservoir of at least two identified people, wherein each of said identified people is attributed a name, a virtual address, a background description, a geographic locale, and a history;

receiving at least one job position request including a job position description containing a work location and including a referral specification;

creating a virtual community of at least one member based upon said job position request;

generating a referral request for said job position description based upon said referral specification to each of said members of said virtual community; and

sending said referral request for said job position description to said member, for each of said members of said virtual community;

wherein the program step creating said virtual community of at least one member based upon said job position request further comprised of the program steps of;

selecting said members from said identified people based upon said job position description; and

collecting said members to create said virtual community based upon said job position request;

wherein the program step selecting said members from said identified people is further comprised of at least one of the collection comprising the program steps of;

selecting a first of said members from said identified people whose said background description nearly matches said job description;

selecting a second of said members from said identified people whose said background description indicates knowledgeability about said job description; and

selecting a third of said members from said identified people whose locale nearly matches said work location;

wherein the program step sending said referral request for said job position description to said member, for each of said members of said virtual community, is further comprised of the program steps of;

queuing at least said referral request to create a member referral request queue;

processing said referral request queue to create a referral request message for said member;

sending said referral request message to said member based upon said virtual address attribute to said member; and

flushing said member referral request queue.

2. The system of claim 1,

wherein the program step maintaining said reservoir of at least two of said identified people is further comprised of the program steps of:

adding a first person with a name, a virtual address, a background description, a geographic locale to create a first of said identified people attributed said name, said virtual address, said background description, said geographical locale with an initial history; and

updating at least one member of said attributes for said first of said identified people.

3. The system of claim 1,

wherein the program step receiving at least one job position request is further comprised of at least one of the collection comprising the program steps of:

receiving said job position request from a first corporate entity; and

receiving said job position request from a first individual.

4. The system of claim 3,

wherein the program step selecting said members from said identified people is further comprised of the program step of:

selecting a fourth of said members from said identified people whose said background description includes employment within said first corporate entity.

5. The system of claim 1,

wherein said referral specification is further comprised a referral award.

6. A method generating referrals for at least one job positions based upon at least one virtual community comprised of at least one member of said virtual community relevant to said job positions, comprising the steps of:

maintaining a reservoir of at least two identified people, wherein each of said identified people is attributed a name, a virtual address, a background description, a geographic locale, and a history;

receiving at least one job position request including a job position description containing a work location and including a referral specification;

creating a virtual community of at least one member based upon said job position request;

generating a referral request for said job position description based upon said referral specification to each of said members of said virtual community; and

sending said referral request for said job position description to said member, for each of said members of said virtual community;

wherein the step creating said virtual community of at least one member based upon said job position request further comprised of the steps of;

selecting said members from said identified people based upon said job position description; and

collecting said members to create said virtual community based upon said job position request;

wherein the step selecting said members from said identified people is further comprised of at least one of the collection comprising the steps of;

selecting a first of said members from said identified people whose said background description nearly matches said job description;

selecting a second of said members from said identified people whose said background description indicates knowledgeability about said job description; and

selecting a third of said members from said identified people whose locale nearly matches said work location;

wherein the step sending said referral request for said job position description to said member, for each of said members of said virtual community, is further comprised of the steps of;

queuing at least said referral request to create a member referral request queue;

processing said referral request queue to create a referral request message for said member;

sending said referral request message to said member based upon said virtual address attribute to said member; and

flushing said member referral request queue.

7. The method of claim 6,

wherein the step maintaining said reservoir of at least two of said identified people is further comprised of the steps of:

adding a first person with a name, a virtual address, a background description, a geographic locale to create a first of said identified people attributed said name, said virtual address, said background description, said geographical locale with an initial history; and

updating at least one member of said attributes for said first of said identified people.

8. The method of claim 6,

wherein the step receiving at least one job position request is further comprised of at least one of the collection comprising the steps of:

receiving said job position request from a first corporate entity; and

receiving said job position request from a first individual.

9. The method of claim 8,

wherein the step selecting said members from said identified people is further comprised of the step of:

selecting a fourth of said members from said identified people whose said background description includes employment within said first corporate entity.

10. The method of claim 6,

wherein said referral specification is further comprised a referral award.

11. A program system implementing the method of claim 6 by controlling a computer, said program system comprising program steps implementing the steps of claim 7 residing in memory accessibly coupled to said computer.