Patent ID: 7188074

Claim:
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.