Identifying and Suggesting Companies With Employment Opportunities Within a Social Network

摘要

The present disclosure describes systems and methods for identifying and suggesting entities with employment opportunities within social networks. The systems and methods are configured to identify and suggest companies to users who are connected in a social graph, by retrieving user connection data including a list of users who are connected, and subsequently, retrieving each of the users' employment information. A particular user may search for a job opportunity from among the list of relevant entities compiled from the employment information. Search results are provided for display, via a user interface, which accepts user selection of one or more particular entities in the search results, and provides one or more links to trigger a search for an employment opportunity with the particular entities serving as a filter. The particular user may view a display of other users who have been employed by the particular entities that serve as a filter.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for identifying and suggesting employment opportunities based on connections in a social network, executing on one or more computing devices, the method comprising:
receiving, using the one or more computing devices, a request from a first user of a social network to identify and provide one or more employer entities with employment opportunities for the first user based at least in part on the first user's social graph, the first user being associated with a first user profile in the social network; retrieving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, the social graph for the first user, the social graph defining online connections established by the first user with one or more other users on the social network with whom the first user shares an affinity; retrieving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, one or more user profiles from the social network of connected users in accordance with the social graph of the first user, the one or more user profiles having a connection to the first user profile in the social network, and the one or more user profiles indicating a designation for complete sharing of information; identifying, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, the one or more employer entities of record for connected users in the social network, based at least in part, on determining an affiliation between the one or more user profiles and the one or more employer entities of record in the social network, the affiliation indicating previous and current employment of users by the employer entities of record that are identified; searching, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, for one or more employment opportunity descriptions currently offered by the one or more employer entities of record within the social network based on a preference and employment history of the first user; and providing for display, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, suggestions for the first user indicating the one or more employer entities of record including the one or more employment opportunity descriptions offered by the one or more employer entities, the suggestions indicating the one or more employer entities also includes an indication specifying which of the one or more other users on the social network with whom the first user shares an affinity are employed at the one or more employer entities.