User interface for comparable recruiter information

A computer readable medium comprising instructions which, when implemented by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• obtain, for a population of users of an online social networking system having a common profession, data related to factors pertaining to the profession from a database of the online social networking system;
• successively, for each of the factors individually, remove from the population of users those whose data relating to the factor is not similar to related data of a subject user until a quantity of the population of users is within a predetermined range to obtain a comparable population of users that have similar data to the subject user;
• compare a statistic from the data of the subject user against the same statistic from the data of each of the users of the comparable population of users to obtain a comparison;
• and
• cause a user interface to display the statistic and information related to the comparison.

A system, comprising:

• a computer readable medium comprising instructions which, when implemented by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
• obtain, for a population of users of an online social networking system having a common profession, data related to factors pertaining to the profession from a database of the online social networking system;
• successively, for each of the factors individually, remove from the population of users those whose data relating to the factor is not similar to related data of a subject user until a quantity of the population of users is within a predetermined range to obtain a comparable population of users that have similar data to the subject user;
• compare a statistic from the data of the subject user against the same statistic from the data of each of the users of the comparable population of users to obtain a comparison;
• and
• cause a user interface to display the statistic and information related to the comparison.