System and method for semantic processing of personalized social data and generating probability models of personal context to generate recommendations in searching applications

A system for searching for employment opportunities, the system comprising:

• a storage device configured to store program code;
• a communication unit;
• and
• a processing unit configured to execute the program code to:
• search, via the communication unit, a plurality of webpages on a plurality of websites for the employment opportunities;
• process the webpages to determine information about the employment opportunities including at least an employer for each of the employment opportunities;
• identify social network connections of a user;
• search, via the communication unit, information from one or more social network websites to identify at least one of a current or previous an employer of one or more of the social network connections of the user;
• and
• in response to receiving a query from a user, return, via the communication unit, a list of potential employment opportunities including information about one or more of the social network connections of the user identified as employed currently or previously employed or associated with a current or previous employee of an employer of one or more of the potential employment opportunities.

A non-transitorily computer readable medium comprising program code for searching for employment opportunities, the computer readable medium comprising program code for:

• searching a plurality of webpages on a plurality of websites for the employment opportunities;
• processing the webpages to determine information about the employment opportunities including an employer for each of the employment opportunities;
• identifying social network connections of a user;
• searching information from one or more social network websites to identify at least one of a current or previous employer of one or more of the social network connections of the user;
• and
• in response to receiving a query from a user, returning a list of potential employment opportunities including information about one or more of the social network connections of the user identified as currently or previously employed or associated with a current or previous employee of an employer of one or more of the potential employment opportunities.