Patent ID: 8589386

Claim:
A method, performed by one or more processors, for displaying search results in an enterprise computing environment, the method comprising: receiving user input specifying a resource query including one or more search criteria for a project specifying availability and qualification characteristics of sought human resources; calculating one or more metric weighting scores on retrieved human resource search results; filtering retrieved human resource search results based on one or more filtering criteria; sorting retrieved human resource search results based on a selected metric weighting score; organizing filtered and sorted retrieved human resource search results and metric weighting scores into a plurality of card objects, with each card object corresponding to a retrieved human resource search result and metric weighting scores pertaining to the retrieved human resource search result; and displaying each card object in the plurality of filtered and sorted card objects in an associated region of a display area, with each card object displaying a collection of data relating to a corresponding retrieved human resource search result, displaying one or more visually coded graphical display elements representing selected metric weighting scores and displaying action graphical elements to add the corresponding retrieved human resource search result to a short list or to assign the corresponding retrieved human resource search result to the project.