Identifying endorsers for a candidate

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by data processing apparatus of an organization posting a job to perform operations comprising:

• identifying, by a computer of an organization posting a job, a candidate for the job in the organization that has social associations based on comparing social associations of the candidate with a plurality of job criteria that collectively represents requirements for the job, wherein at least some of the social associations of the candidate satisfy at least some of the plurality of job criteria;
• identifying, by the computer system of the organization and from among the social associations of the candidate, data describing an entity with social associations that are at least partly associated with some of the plurality of job criteria and at least partly associated with some of the social associations of the organization;
• providing, by the computer system of the organization, the data describing the entity as an endorser who can endorse the candidate for the job;
• determining, by the computer system of the organization, that an endorsement by the entity provided as the endorser is included in the social associations of the candidate;
• comparing, by the computer system of the organization, data included in the endorsement with the plurality of job criteria;
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• determining, by the computer system of the organization, a relevance metric of the endorsement to the job in response to comparing the data included in the endorsement with the plurality of job criteria.

A system comprising:

• one or more data processing apparatus;
• and
• a computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by the one or more data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
• identifying by a computer of an organization posting a job, a candidate for the job in the organization that has social associations based on comparing social associations of the candidate with a plurality of job criteria that collectively represents requirements for the job, wherein at least some of the social associations of the candidate satisfy at least some of the plurality of job criteria;
• identifying, by the computer system of the organization and from among the social associations of the candidate, data describing an entity with social associations that are at least partly associated with some of the plurality of job criteria and at least partly associated with some of the social associations of the organization;
• providing, by the computer system of the organization, the data describing the entity as an endorser who can endorse the candidate for the job;
• transmitting, by the computer system of the organization, a request from a person in the organization to the entity provided as the endorser for an endorsement for the candidate for the job;
• receiving, by the computer system of the organization, the endorsement from the entity provided as the endorser;
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• providing, by the computer system of the organization, the endorsement for presentation in a user interface.