Patent ID: 7149703

Claim:
A computer implemented system for generating referrals for at least one job position based upon at least one virtual community comprised of at least one member of said virtual community relevant to said job position, comprising: a server coupled to a memory said server communicatively coupled to said employee of said corporate entity and said job hunter; a server operated by a program residing in a memory, said program executing 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 selected from said identified people based upon said job position request; selecting said members from said identified people via any of the steps of: selecting one of said members from said identified people whose said background description wherein the step of sending said referral request to said job position description to said member, for each of said members of said virtual community, is further comprised 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 nearly matches said job description; selecting one of said members from said identified people whose said background description indicates knowledgeability about said job description; and selecting one of said members from said identified people whose locale nearly matches said work location; 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.