Abstract: Referral and recruiting methods and systems may be enabled to receive a user profile associated with a first candidate; receive a company profile associated with a company; receive a job posting from the company; receive a referral for the job posting from a referring user, wherein receiving the referral for the job posting comprises: receiving an association of the job posting and the first candidate, and providing the job posting to the first candidate; track the referral, wherein tracking the referral comprises: associating the referral with the referring user and the first candidate, and preventing other users from referring the job posting to the first candidate; and administer the referral, wherein administering the referral comprises providing a referral fee to the referring user.