Abstract: A method of sharing recruiting information involves storing network rules defining a private network among member entities; receiving a request to publish a subset of the recruiting information managed by a first member to other members of the private network; applying the network rules to the subset of the recruiting information managed by the first member to determine a publishable set of recruiting information, and publishing the publishable set of recruiting information to the other members of the private network; receiving a request to expose to the first member a subset of the recruiting information managed by another member for consideration as a match for the publishable set of recruiting information; and applying the network rules to the subset of the recruiting information managed by the other member to determine an exposable set of recruiting information, and exposing the exposable subset of the recruiting information to the first member.

Abstract: A method of sharing recruiting information between users registered with a network service involves receiving a message comprising a sender identifier designating a sender of the message, multiple recipient identifiers designating respective target recipients of the message, and recruiting information; storing the recruiting information in a physical memory; identifying registered ones of the target recipients who correspond to respective ones of the registered users and identifying non-registered ones of the target recipients who are not ones of the registered users; ascertaining ones of the identified registered target recipients who are associated with message delivery rules allowing delivery of messages from the sender; for each of the ascertained recipients, linking the stored recruiting information to a respective message folder associated with ascertained recipient; and forwarding the received message to a message server to deliver to the identified non-registered target recipients.