Patent ID: 9407708
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computer processor, from a first member of a social network service who is a first person seeking to hire a candidate, a first set of attributes of a candidate desired as a recommendation for employment; searching attributes of the profiles of other members of the social network service for entities having at least some of the first set of attributes; presenting to the first member the identity of a plurality of the entities as a recommendation for employment; receiving from the first member of the social network service, a second set of attributes, the second set of attributes comprising attributes of a second member of the social network service who is a second person seeking to hire a candidate having at least some of the first set of attributes, the second member qualifying as a member of a peer group for collaboration by discourse on making a decision with respect to the recommendation for employment; searching attributes of the profiles of other members of the social network service for second members having at least some of the second set of attributes; and presenting to the first member the identity of at least one of the second members as a recommendation for a member of the peer group, wherein the first member is seeking to hire one of the plurality of entities and the discourse is about a decision to hire one of the plurality of entities.