Patent ID: 7725405

Claim:
A method comprising: providing a job board accessible to a plurality of placement agents and a recruiter via the Internet, said job board hosted by a server computing device on a network; storing a placement agent profile in a database server on the network for each of said plurality of placement agents of the job board based on input from each of said placement agents; storing a recruiter profile in the database server for said recruiter of the job board based on input from said recruiter; receiving information on the job board regarding a plurality of job candidates and a plurality of available positions; facilitating, via the job board, recruiter access to the stored placement agent profiles and placement agents access to the stored recruiter profile; and facilitating, via the job board, communication of information between a single selected placement agent and the recruiter regarding an available position and regarding a job candidate, by first establishing a first communication link via the job board from the recruiter associated with a computing device to the selected placement agent, said first communication link being established based upon permission being granted by said recruiter to said selected placement agent to conduct said communication for selective receipt by said recruiter of said information from said selected placement agent, and subsequently establishing a second communication link via the job board from the recruiter to the selected placement agent for transmitting the information regarding an available position from a database of stored available positions established by the recruiter directly to the selected placement agent, and a third communication link via the job board from the selected placement agent to the recruiter for transmitting information directly to the recruiter regarding a job candidate from a database of stored job candidate information established by the selected placement agent, in response to information transmitted via the second communication link.