Abstract: Techniques are provided for automatically generating a real-time notification associated with a job posting. In one technique, in response to receiving a job posting, a plurality of saved searches that includes a first set of criteria and a second set of criteria is identified. For each saved search, a job posting is added to a first subset of saved searches if the job posting satisfies the first set of criteria. For each saved search of the first subset, a saved search is added to a second subset of saved searches if the job posting satisfies the second set of criteria. For each saved search of the second subset, a notification associated with the job posting is automatically sent to a computing device of a user associated with each saved search of the second subset.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing a request for profile data. During operation, the system obtains, from the request, an identifier for a member in a user community and a first non-global scope. Next, the system matches the identifier to a central profile record and locates a scoped profile record for the member. If the request is a read request, the system retrieves a first field from the scoped profile record and a second field from the central profile record and transmits the first and second fields in a response to the request without including, in the response, additional fields that are outside of the first non-global scope or the global scope. If the request is a write request, the system stores an update to the first field in the scoped profile record without modifying the first field in profile records that are outside of the first non-global scope.