Recruitment support system and recruitment support server

Abstract

This system allows job seekers to apply for referral positions without referrers sharing job seekers' information with companies, or job seekers sharing referrers' information with companies. [Solution] The recruitment support server 1 generates access information that includes the information of the employee who made the referral request from the employee terminal 4 as a parameter, and generates job referral notification information including the said access information and notifies the acquaintance terminal 5. When the form provision server 2 presents the external form created as an application form to the acquaintance terminal 5 in response to the form request from the acquaintance terminal 5, it presets the employee information included as a parameter in the access information used for the form request into the corresponding fields of the external form. This allows job seekers to apply for referral positions without the referrer having to convey the job seeker's information to the company, or the job seeker having to convey the referrer's information to the company.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present invention relates to a recruitment support system and a recruitment support server, and is particularly suitable for use in a system that provides support for referral recruitment.

Background Art

[0002] In recent years, the talent market has become a seller's market, and as the labor shortage has become more serious, referral recruitment has been attracting attention. Referral recruitment refers to a method of having employees of a company introduce acquaintances. Conventionally, a system for supporting information management related to referral recruitment has been known (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).

[0003] Patent Document 1 discloses that a referral notice is sent from an employee terminal to a relative terminal via a recruitment activity support server, a recruitment request is made from the relative terminal to the recruitment activity support server, and information management related to referral recruitment is performed by the recruitment activity support server including information on the introducing employee and the introduced relative. As an example of information management, it is disclosed that the number of relatives introduced by an employee for the company's job openings (number of introductions) and the number of those whose employment has been decided (number of recruitment decisions) are managed. Patent Document 1 also discloses that, in order to make employees interested in referral recruitment, a reward is given under arbitrary conditions for any activity related to the company's job opening introduction using the recruitment activity support server.

[0004] Patent Document 2 discloses that a referral notice is sent from a job seeker who has a predetermined relationship with a job poster who is recruiting for a job opening to a job seeker, and when the job seeker is interested in the job ticket included in the notice, the job seeker accesses the job recruitment using the access information included in the notice and applies for the job ticket, and information related to the relationship between the introducer and the job seeker (job seeker ID, introducer ID, relationship between the introducer and the job seeker, etc.) is stored and managed in a recommendation management DB, a matching management DB, etc.

Prior Art Documents

Patent Documents

[0005] [Patent Document 1] Japanese Patent Publication No. 2021-77119 [Patent Document 2] Japanese Patent Publication No. 2021-176062 [Overview of the project] [Problems that the invention aims to solve]

[0006] Incidentally, it is common for companies recruiting to utilize all available recruitment channels, including not only referral hiring but also direct recruiting using multiple job boards. In this case, there is a need to identify whether a job seeker who applies using an application form was referred by an employee through referral hiring or applied through another recruitment channel, and to manage the relationship between the job seeker and the referrer in the case of referral hiring.

[0007] Here, instead of using application forms provided on the company's own server, it is not uncommon for companies to use application forms provided by, for example, an ATS (Applicant Tracking System), or to create application forms using publicly available form creation tools on the internet. Hereafter, these will be referred to as external forms. However, in systems that manage information related to referral hiring, such as those described in Patent Documents 1 and 2, when an external form is used as the application form for referral hiring, there is a problem in that, in order to link the job seeker and the referrer, the referrer must convey the job seeker's information to the company using a registration form or messaging tool provided by the company in addition to the external form, or by verbal means, or the referrer must provide the job seeker with an inquiry form or contact point to the company, and the job seeker must manually enter the referrer's information into the inquiry form or convey it verbally.

[0008] This invention was made to solve these problems and aims to enable job seekers to apply for referral positions without referrers having to share job seekers' information with companies, or job seekers having to share referrers' information with companies. [Means for solving the problem]

[0009] To solve the above-mentioned problems, the recruitment support system of the present invention comprises a recruitment support server that supports recruitment activities in a company, and a form provision server that provides external forms, which are forms provided by an external party other than the company. The recruitment support server, in response to a referral request from an employee terminal used by an employee of the company, generates access information that includes employee information as a parameter that can identify the employee corresponding to the employee terminal from which the referral request was made, and generates notification information that includes said access information to send a job referral notification to an acquaintance terminal used by an acquaintance of the employee. The form provision server, in response to a form request made from an acquaintance terminal, presents an external form created as an application form for a company's job to the acquaintance terminal, and pre-sets the employee information included as a parameter in the access information used for the form request into the corresponding fields of the external form. [Effects of the Invention]

[0010] According to the present invention configured as described above, when an acquaintance referred by a company employee applies for a job, the employee information of the referring employee is pre-set in the external form (application form) presented in response to a form request from the acquaintance's terminal to the form provision server. Therefore, the job seeker can apply for a referral position without the referrer having to convey the acquaintance's information to the company, nor with the job seeker having to convey the referrer's information to the company. [Brief explanation of the drawing]

[0011] [Figure 1] This figure shows an example of the overall configuration of the recruitment support system according to this embodiment. [Figure 2]This block diagram shows an example of the functional configuration of the recruitment support server and the form provision server according to this embodiment. [Figure 3] This figure shows an example of job referral notification information presented by the referral notification unit of this embodiment. [Figure 4] This figure shows an example of a job posting page displayed by the job posting information display unit of this embodiment. [Figure 5] This figure shows an example of an application form (external form) presented by the external form presentation unit of this embodiment. [Figure 6] This flowchart shows an example of the operation of the recruitment support server according to this embodiment. [Figure 7] This is a block diagram showing an example of the functional configuration of a recruitment support server related to application examples. [Figure 8] This diagram schematically shows an example of management information stored in the management information storage unit related to the application example. [Modes for carrying out the invention]

[0012] Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Figure 1 is a diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of the recruitment support system according to this embodiment. As shown in Figure 1, the recruitment support system of this embodiment is configured to include a recruitment support server 1, a form provision server 2, a corporate terminal 3, an employee terminal 4, and an acquaintance terminal 5.

[0013] Corporate terminal 3 consists of terminal devices such as smartphones, tablets, and personal computers, and is used, for example, by human resources personnel of a company. Corporate terminal 3 operates in conjunction with recruitment support server 1. For example, corporate terminal 3 creates a CSV file containing information on multiple items to be posted as job information and uploads it to recruitment support server 1. Recruitment support server 1 uses the CSV file provided by corporate terminal 3 to generate a web page containing the job information (hereinafter referred to as the job page).

[0014] The employee terminal 4 is composed of a terminal device such as a smartphone, a tablet, a personal computer, etc., and is used by the employees of the company. Although only one employee terminal 4 is illustrated in FIG. 1, there are as many employee terminals 4 as the number of employees belonging to the company.

[0015] A communication application (hereinafter referred to as a communication app) is installed on the employee terminal 4. Among the various functions provided by the communication app, there is a function of introducing acquaintances. The function of introducing acquaintances is a function related to so-called referral recruitment, and it is a function that enables the company's job offers to be introduced to acquaintances. Details of this will be described later.

[0016] The acquaintance terminal 5 is composed of a terminal device such as a smartphone, a tablet, a personal computer, etc., and is used by the acquaintance of the employee. The acquaintance terminal 5 can access the job offer page according to the access information included in the job offer notification sent from the recruitment support server 1, and the acquaintance can view the job offer information of the company introduced by the employee. In addition, the acquaintance can input the necessary items in the application form presented in response to the operation of the user interface included in the job offer page, and apply for the company's job offer.

[0017] The form providing server 2 is a server operated by an external party different from the company, and provides an arbitrary form. Since the form is provided by an external party different from the company, it is referred to as an external form in this specification. The application form presented to the acquaintance terminal 5 in response to the operation of the user interface included in the above-mentioned job offer page is an external form provided by the form providing server 2.

[0018] The external form can be customized by the company that uses it. In this embodiment, the company customizes the external form in advance to create an application form for the company's job offers. The application form created by customizing the external form includes a plurality of input items required by the company as application information. In the application form, access information (URL: Uniform Resource Locator) to the application management system determined by the company is set as the transmission destination of the application information input in the input items. Further, the external form has a function of presetting parameters included in the URL input at the time of form request to designated input items, and this preset function is incorporated into the application form. Details thereof will be described later.

[0019] The employment support server 1 executes processing to support referral employment activities in a company. The employment support server 1 is a general-purpose computer such as a workstation or a personal computer, or a device logically realized by cloud computing. The employment support server 1 may be constituted by one device, or may be constituted by a combination of a plurality of devices.

[0020] The employment support server 1 is connected to the form providing server 2, the company terminal 3, the employee terminal 4, and the acquaintance terminal 5 via a communication network, and executes processing to support referral employment activities in cooperation with these. The communication network is, for example, the Internet, and is constructed including a public communication line network, a mobile phone line network, and the like. A part of the communication network may include a wireless communication path, a LAN (Local Area Network), or the like.

[0021] Figure 2 is a block diagram showing an example of the functional configuration of the recruitment support server 1 and the form provision server 2 according to this embodiment. Figure 2 illustrates only the main functional blocks related to the subject of this embodiment. As shown in Figure 2, the recruitment support server 1 of this embodiment has a functional configuration that includes a CSV input unit 11, a job posting page generation unit 12, a referral request receiving unit 13, a referral notification unit 14, a page request receiving unit 15, and a job posting information presentation unit 16. The recruitment support server 1 of this embodiment also includes a job posting page storage unit 17 as a storage medium.

[0022] The above-mentioned functional blocks 11 to 16 perform the processes described below through the cooperation of hardware and software. For example, the processes of the above-mentioned functional blocks 11 to 16 are executed by the operation of programs stored in storage media such as RAM, ROM, hard disk, or semiconductor memory, under the control of a processor configured by a microcomputer equipped with a CPU, RAM, ROM, etc.

[0023] Furthermore, as shown in Figure 2, the form provision server 2 of this embodiment includes a form request receiving unit 21 and an external form presentation unit 22 as its functional configuration. In addition, the form provision server 2 of this embodiment includes a customization information storage unit 23 as a storage medium.

[0024] The above-mentioned functional blocks 21 to 22 perform the processes described below through the cooperation of hardware and software. For example, the processes of the above-mentioned functional blocks 21 to 22 are executed by the operation of programs stored in storage media such as RAM, ROM, hard disk, or semiconductor memory, under the control of a processor configured by a microcomputer equipped with a CPU, RAM, ROM, etc.

[0025] The CSV input unit 11 of the recruitment support server 1 receives a CSV file containing information on multiple items to be posted as job information from the company terminal 3. The multiple items can be arbitrarily determined by the company. Examples of items include the name of the recruiting company, the job title, job description, application requirements, employment type, working conditions, work location, salary, holidays / vacation, benefits, and compensation.

[0026] The job posting page generation unit 12 uses the CSV file input by the CSV input unit 11 to generate a job posting page containing job information for multiple items included in the CSV file, and stores the data of the generated job posting page in the job posting page storage unit 17. In addition to the job information, this job posting page includes a user interface for instructing the form provider server 2 to submit a request for the application form (hereinafter referred to as a form request). The user interface is, for example, a form request button.

[0027] The form request button on the job posting page contains a link to access information for form provider server 2 (hereinafter referred to as form access information). This form access information is a URL that specifies the destination of form provider server 2. Hereafter, the URL related to form access information will be referred to as the form request URL. In other words, when the form request button is pressed, form access information (form request URL) is issued, and a form request is made to form provider server 2 according to this form request URL.

[0028] The referral request receiving unit 13 receives a referral request from the employee terminal 4. This referral request is instruction information in which an employee requests that an acquaintance introduce the company's job openings to them, and includes at least information that identifies the employee making the referral (hereinafter referred to as employee information) and destination information that identifies the recipient of the job referral notification, and may include other information. Employee information is, for example, the employee's name. Destination information that identifies the recipient of the job referral notification is, for example, the email address of the acquaintance's terminal 5, or the SNS account information used by the acquaintance.

[0029] Employee information may also be identification information such as the login ID of the communication app installed on the employee terminal 4, or an employee code uniquely assigned to each employee. In this case, the recruitment support server 1 may have a database that stores the communication app or employee identification information in association with the employee's name, and the referral request receiving unit 13 may replace the identification information included in the received referral request with the employee's name.

[0030] The referral notification unit 14, in response to a referral request from an employee terminal 4 received by the referral request receiving unit 13, sends a notification regarding the company's job openings to the acquaintance terminal 5 used by the employee's acquaintance. Specifically, the referral notification unit 14 sends a job opening notification to at least one of the email account and SNS account set up on the acquaintance's acquaintance terminal 5, according to the destination information specified in the referral request as the recipient of the job opening notification.

[0031] At this time, the referral notification unit 14 uses the employee information contained in the referral request received by the referral request receiving unit 13 to generate access information that includes employee information that can identify the employee who made the referral request (for example, the employee's name) as a parameter, and generates notification information containing said access information to send a job referral notification to the acquaintance terminal 5. The access information generated here is the access information used for the request to present the job page (hereinafter referred to as the page request) (hereinafter referred to as the page access information). The page access information is a URL that specifies the destination of the job page stored in the job page storage unit 17 of the recruitment support server 1. Hereinafter, the URL related to the page access information will be referred to as the page request URL.

[0032] Figure 3 shows an example of job referral notification information presented by the referral notification unit 14 of this embodiment. As shown in Figure 3, the job referral notification information includes the name of the company that is offering the job and the URL of the page request. The job referral notification information only needs to include the two pieces of information shown in Figure 3, and may also include other information.

[0033] The page request receiving unit 15 receives page requests from the acquaintance terminal 5 according to the page request URL included in the job referral notification information illustrated in Figure 3. The page request receiving unit 15 supplies the received page request URL to the job page generation unit 12 and the job information presentation unit 16, and requests the job page generation unit 12 to generate a job page.

[0034] The job posting page generation unit 12 reads the job posting page specified by the page request URL from the job posting page storage unit 17 and regenerates the job posting page by rewriting the form request URL linked to the form request button included in the job posting page. As described above, the job posting page includes a form request button in addition to the job posting information, and the form request button is linked to a form request URL. The job posting page generation unit 12 extracts the employee information included as a parameter in the page request URL supplied by the page request receiving unit 15 and performs a process to include this employee information as a parameter in the form request URL. The job posting page generation unit 12 that performs this process corresponds to the page generation unit in the claims.

[0035] Here, we have described an example in which the job posting page generation unit 12 rewrites the form request URL linked to the form request button included in the job posting page pre-generated based on a CSV file, using employee information included as a parameter in the page request URL. However, this is not the only example. For instance, the job posting page generation unit 12 could pre-generate a job posting page without links based on a CSV file, and when the page request receiving unit 15 receives a page request, it could generate a form request URL that includes employee information as a parameter and link it to the form request button.

[0036] The job information display unit 16 presents a job page containing a form request button and company job information to the acquaintance terminal 5 in response to a page request received by the page request receiving unit 15. At this time, the job information display unit 16 presents the job page to the acquaintance terminal 5 with the form request URL rewritten by the job page generation unit 12.

[0037] Figure 4 shows an example of a job posting page presented by the job posting information display unit 16. As shown in Figure 4, the job posting page includes job posting information with multiple items such as company name, job title, job description, application requirements, employment type, working conditions, work location, salary, holidays / vacations, benefits, and treatment, as well as a form request button 41 for instructing the form provider server 2 to submit a form request.

[0038] When the acquaintance presses the form request button 41, a form request URL is issued, and the form request is sent to the form provider server 2 according to that form request URL. As described above, the form request URL used for this form request includes as a parameter the employee information contained in the page request URL used for the page request from the acquaintance's terminal 5 to the recruitment support server 1, that is, the employee information of the employee who introduced the acquaintance.

[0039] The form request receiving unit 21 of the form provision server 2 receives form requests from the acquaintance terminal 5. The external form presentation unit 22 presents the external form, which has been created as an application form for a company's job posting, to the acquaintance terminal 5 in response to the form request received by the form request receiving unit 21. The customization information of the application form created by the company by customizing the external form is stored in the customization information storage unit 23, and the external form presentation unit 22 presents the application form according to the customization information in the storage area specified by the form request URL.

[0040] At this time, the external form presentation unit 22 presets the employee information included as parameters in the form request URL used for the form request into the corresponding fields of the application form, according to the customization information stored in the customization information storage unit 23. In other words, the application form is configured so that when a form request is made to the form provision server 2 according to the form request URL which is set to be issued in response to the operation of the form request button 41 based on the customization information stored in the customization information storage unit 23, the employee information included as parameters in the form request URL is preset into the corresponding fields of the application form.

[0041] Figure 5 shows an example of an application form presented by the external form presentation unit 22. In the example shown in Figure 5, the application form includes input fields for name, name in katakana, referrer (employee), desired start date, and reason for application (optional). Of these, the referrer (employee) input field is pre-filled with employee information extracted from the form request URL.

[0042] Here, we have shown an example where the employee's name is used as employee information and the employee's name is pre-set in the corresponding input field, but this is not the only option. For example, the employee code or the login ID of the community app could be used as employee information, and this identification information could be pre-set in the corresponding input field in the application form.

[0043] An acquaintance can apply for a company's referral program by entering the necessary information into the fields on the application form that do not have pre-filled information, proceeding to the confirmation screen, and clicking the submit button. The information entered into each field of the application form (both pre-filled information and information entered by the acquaintance) is sent to the application management server (not shown) where the company manages applications. The company's representative can access the application management server from the company terminal 3 to view the application information, and based on the information in each field of the application, can easily recognize that the applicant is a referral applicant and that the employee who referred the acquaintance is the one who introduced them.

[0044] Figure 6 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the recruitment support server 1 according to this embodiment, configured as described above. The flowchart in Figure 6 shows the processing flow from when the recruitment support server 1 receives a referral request from the employee terminal 4 to when it presents the job posting page to the acquaintance terminal 5.

[0045] When the referral request receiving unit 13 receives a referral request from the employee terminal 4 (step S1), the referral notification unit 14 generates a page request URL that includes employee information (e.g., the employee's name) that can identify the employee who made the referral request as a parameter (step S2), and generates notification information including the page request URL to send a job referral notification to the acquaintance terminal 5 (step S3). After the referral notification unit 14 sends the job referral notification, the page request receiving unit 15 waits for a page request to be sent from the acquaintance terminal 5 according to the page request URL included in the job referral notification information (step S4).

[0046] Then, when the page request receiving unit 15 receives a page request, the job posting page generation unit 12 reads the job posting page specified by the page request URL from the job posting page storage unit 17 and regenerates the job posting page by rewriting the form request URL included in the job posting page (step S5). In other words, the job posting page generation unit 12 extracts employee information included as parameters from the page request URL and processes the extraction of employee information to include as parameters in the form request URL.

[0047] Then, the job information display unit 16 presents the job page containing the company's job information and the form request button 41 to the acquaintance's terminal 5 (step S5). At this time, the job information display unit 16 presents the job page to the acquaintance's terminal 5, with the form request URL rewritten by the job page generation unit 12 in step S5. Subsequently, when the acquaintance presses the form request button 41, a form request is made to the form provider server 2 according to the form request URL in which employee information is incorporated as a parameter.

[0048] As explained in detail above, according to this embodiment, when an acquaintance who has been introduced to a job by an employee of a company via a job referral notification sent from the recruitment support server 1 views the job page presented according to the page request URL linked in the job referral notification and applies for the job by pressing the form request button 41, the employee information of the referrer, which is incorporated as a parameter in the form request URL sent from the acquaintance's terminal 5 to the form provision server 2, is pre-set in the external form (application form) presented by the external form presentation unit 22. This allows job seekers to apply for referral employment without the referrer conveying the acquaintance's information as a job seeker to the company, or the job seeker conveying the referrer's information to the company.

[0049] <Application Examples> Figure 7 shows an example of the functional configuration of the recruitment support server 1' in an application example. The application example shown in Figure 7 shows a configuration that further applies the above embodiment, and includes configurations 101 to 105 shown in Figure 7 in addition to configurations 11 to 17 shown in Figure 2. In Figure 7, components with the same reference numerals as those shown in Figure 2 have the same function, so redundant explanations are omitted here.

[0050] As shown in Figure 7, the recruitment support server 1' in the application example includes, in addition to the configurations 11-17 shown in Figure 2, an information management unit 101, an application information acquisition unit 102, a work status information acquisition unit 103, and a point awarding unit 104 as functional configurations. Furthermore, the recruitment support server 1' in the application example is further equipped with a management information storage unit 105 as a storage medium.

[0051] The functional blocks 11-16 and 101-104 shown in Figure 7 perform the processes described below through the cooperation of hardware and software. For example, the processes of the above functional blocks 11-16 and 101-104 are executed by the operation of programs stored in storage media such as RAM, ROM, hard disk, or semiconductor memory, under the control of a processor configured by a microcomputer equipped with a CPU, RAM, ROM, etc.

[0052] The Information Management Unit 101 stores and manages the necessary information in the Management Information Storage Unit 105 for awarding points to employees who have made referrals, based on the information provided by the Referral Request Receiving Unit 13, the Page Request Receiving Unit 15, the Application Information Acquisition Unit 102, and the Work Status Information Acquisition Unit 103. Figure 8 is a schematic diagram showing an example of management information stored in the Management Information Storage Unit 105.

[0053] As shown in Figure 8, the management information stored in the management information storage unit 105 includes employee code, employee name, department, acquaintance status, and point information. The employee code, employee name, and department are information provided from, for example, the corporate terminal 3 and are stored in advance. The acquaintance status is information indicating the activities of acquaintances introduced by the employee and is updated sequentially based on information provided by the introduction request receiving unit 13, page request receiving unit 15, application information acquisition unit 102, and work status information acquisition unit 103. The points are the total value of points awarded to the employee according to their acquaintance status.

[0054] The acquaintance status initially stores "No referrals" when an employee has not referred any acquaintances for job openings. Subsequently, when the referral request receiving unit 13 receives a referral request from the employee terminal 4, the information management unit 101 rewrites the acquaintance status of the employee in question to "Referrals: ○ people" based on the employee information included in the referral request. If the referral request receiving unit 13 receives multiple referral requests from the same employee's terminal 4 to refer different acquaintances, the information management unit 101 increments the number of referrers each time.

[0055] Furthermore, when the page request receiving unit 15 receives a page request from a friend's terminal 5, the information management unit 101 adds "Page viewed: ○ people" to the friend status of the corresponding employee based on the employee information included as a parameter in the page request URL used for that page request. If the page request receiving unit 15 receives multiple page requests from different friend's terminals 5, the information management unit 101 increments the number of page viewers each time.

[0056] Furthermore, when the application information acquisition unit 102 acquires application information indicating that an acquaintance introduced by an employee has applied for a job at the company, the information management unit 101 adds "Applicants: ○ people" to the acquaintance status of the relevant employee based on the employee information contained in the application information. If the application information acquisition unit 102 acquires application information for different acquaintances multiple times, the information management unit 101 increments the number of applicants each time.

[0057] Here, the application information acquisition unit 102 acquires application information from the application management system that a company has specified as the destination for sending application information when it customizes an external form provided by the form provision server 2 to create an application form. As illustrated in Figure 6, the application form provided by the external form presentation unit 22 includes fields for entering the name of the applicant (acquaintance) and a field for entering the name of the referrer (employee). Therefore, the application management system manages information about the applicant (acquaintance) for the job application in association with information about the employee who referred the acquaintance. The application information acquisition unit 102 acquires application information that includes information about the acquaintance and the employee who referred them in this way.

[0058] Furthermore, when the work status information acquisition unit 103 acquires work status information showing the work status of an acquaintance introduced by an employee at a company where that acquaintance subsequently joined, the information management unit 101 adds "acquaintance's work status information" to the acquaintance status of the relevant employee based on the employee information contained in that work status information. If the work status information acquisition unit 103 acquires work status information for different acquaintances multiple times, the information management unit 101 adds "acquaintance's work status information" each time. Also, if the work status information acquisition unit 103 acquires work status information for the same acquaintance multiple times, the information management unit 101 updates the "acquaintance's work status information" for that acquaintance each time. The acquaintance's work status information can be, for example, the number of days worked after joining the company, but is not limited to this.

[0059] Here, the work status information acquisition unit 103 acquires work status information application information from the company terminal 3 as needed. For example, a company representative can export employee work status information managed by the attendance management system used by the company to a CSV file at any time, and send the CSV file from the company terminal 3 to the recruitment support server 1. The work status information acquisition unit 103 acquires work status information from this CSV file. Note that the method of acquiring work status information shown here is just one example and is not limited to this.

[0060] The point awarding unit 104 awards points to the employee who introduced an acquaintance, according to the acquaintance status stored in the management information storage unit 105, under predetermined conditions, and stores the awarded points in the management information storage unit 105 in association with the employee information. In other words, the point awarding unit 104 awards points to the employee who introduced the acquaintance, under predetermined conditions, based on the activities of the acquaintance introduced by the employee.

[0061] The predetermined conditions under which the point awarding unit 104 awards points can be arbitrarily determined. For example, the point awarding unit 104 may award a predetermined number of points according to the number of acquaintances introduced. For example, it is possible to award a predetermined number of points for every m acquaintances (m≧1) introduced. Alternatively, the point awarding unit 104 may award a predetermined number of points according to the number of acquaintances who view the job posting page. For example, it is possible to award a predetermined number of points for every n acquaintances (n≧1) who view the job posting page.

[0062] Furthermore, the point awarding unit 104 may award a predetermined number of points according to the number of acquaintances who applied for the job using the application form. For example, it is possible to award a predetermined number of points for every k acquaintances (k≧1) who apply. Also, the point awarding unit 104 may award a predetermined number of points according to the number of acquaintances who joined the company. For example, it is possible to award a predetermined number of points for every j acquaintances (j≧1) who joined the company.

[0063] Furthermore, the point awarding unit 104 may award a predetermined number of points according to the employee's work performance after joining the company. For example, it is possible to award a predetermined number of points such as awarding P1 points when M1 months have passed since joining the company, P2 points when M2 months have passed, and P3 points when M3 months have passed (M1 <M2<M3,P1<P2<P3)。

[0064] It is not required to award points for all of the following: an employee referring a job to an acquaintance, the acquaintance viewing the job posting, the acquaintance applying for the job, the acquaintance joining the company, and the acquaintance's work performance after joining the company. One or more of these may be applied. Companies may also be allowed to arbitrarily choose which of these to apply. For example, the company terminal 3 may upload information on the point awarding conditions to the recruitment support server 1, and the information management unit 101 may store and manage the uploaded condition information in the management information storage unit 105. In this case, the point awarding unit 104 will award points to employees who meet the conditions according to the point awarding condition information stored in the management information storage unit 105.

[0065] Figure 7 illustrates a configuration in which the recruitment support server 1' includes both configurations 11-17 for processing referral recruitment and configurations 101-105 for processing point awarding, but it is not limited to this configuration. For example, the recruitment support server 1 in Figure 2, which includes configurations 11-17 for processing referral recruitment, and a server device that includes configurations 101-105 for processing point awarding may be configured separately and cooperate with each other.

[0066] In the above embodiment, an example was described in which a page request URL is included in the job referral notification information, and when a page request is made, the employee information included in the page request URL is extracted and incorporated as a parameter into the form request URL, and a job page including a form request button 41 to which the form request URL is linked is presented. However, the system is not limited to this. For example, a form request URL incorporating the employee information of the employee who referred the acquaintance as a parameter may be included in the job referral notification information, and a form request may be made to the form provider server 2 by specifying the link in the form request URL. In this case, the job referral notification information may include the name of the company conducting referral recruitment and the form request URL for making a form request to the form provider server 2, as well as the company's job information.

[0067] Furthermore, although the above embodiment describes an example in which the job posting page generation unit 12 generates a job posting page based on a CSV file sent from the corporate terminal 3 to the recruitment support server 1, the embodiment is not limited to this. For example, the job posting page generated on the corporate terminal 3 may be uploaded to the recruitment support server 1 and stored in the job posting page storage unit 17.

[0068] Furthermore, in the above embodiment, an example was described in which, when the page request receiving unit 15 of the recruitment support server 1 receives a page request from the acquaintance terminal 5, employee information extracted from the page request URL is incorporated as parameters into the form request URL linked to the form request button 41. However, the embodiment is not limited to this. For example, the form request URL linked to the form request button 41 may not be rewritten, and a script containing instructions to include employee information as parameters in the form request URL when the form request button 41 is pressed may be generated and incorporated into the job posting page.

[0069] Furthermore, the above embodiments are merely examples of how the present invention may be implemented, and the technical scope of the invention should not be interpreted as being limited by them. In other words, the present invention can be implemented in various ways without departing from its gist or its main features. [Explanation of Symbols]

[0070] 1,1' Recruitment support server 2 Form provider server 3. Enterprise terminals 4. Employee terminals 5. Acquaintance's terminal 11 CSV Input Section 12. Job posting page generation section 13. Referral Request Receiving Unit 14. Referral Notification Department Page 15 Request Receiving Section 16 Job Information Presentation Department 17 Job posting page memory section 21 Form Request Receiving Unit 22 External Form Presentation Section 23. Customization Information Storage Unit 101 Information Management Department 102 Application Information Acquisition Department 103 Work Status Information Acquisition Department 104 Point Award Section 105 Management information storage unit

Claims

1. A recruitment support server that assists companies in their recruitment activities, The system includes a form provider server that provides external forms, which are forms provided by external parties different from the aforementioned companies. The above-mentioned recruitment support server includes a referral notification unit that, in response to a referral request from an employee terminal used by an employee of the above-mentioned company, notifies an acquaintance terminal used by the employee regarding a referral for a job opening at the above-mentioned company. The above form-providing server includes an external form presentation unit that, in response to a form request made from the above-mentioned acquaintance's terminal, presents the above-mentioned external form, which has been created as an application form for a job at the above-mentioned company, to the above-mentioned acquaintance's terminal. The above-mentioned referral notification unit generates access information that includes employee information as a parameter that can identify the employee corresponding to the employee terminal from which the referral request was made, generates notification information including the above-mentioned access information, and sends a job referral notification to the above-mentioned acquaintance terminal. The external form presentation unit, when presenting the external form in response to the form request, pre-sets the employee information included as parameters in the access information used for the form request into the corresponding fields of the external form. A recruitment support system characterized by the following features.

2. The above-mentioned recruitment support server further comprises a user interface for instructing the form provider server to make the above-mentioned form request in response to a page request made from the above-mentioned acquaintance terminal according to the page access information, which is the access information included in the notification information of the above-mentioned job introduction notification, and a job information presentation unit that presents a web page containing the above-mentioned company's job information, The form access information, which is access information to the form provider server configured to be issued for the form request in response to the operation of the user interface, includes the employee information contained in the page access information used for the page request from the acquaintance's terminal as a parameter. The recruitment support system according to feature 1.

3. The recruitment support system according to claim 2, further comprising a page generation unit that performs a process of obtaining employee information from the page access information used for the page request from the acquaintance's terminal and including it as a parameter in the form access information.

4. The above webpage presented by the above job posting department contains scripts. The above script includes instructions for performing an action to include the employee information obtained from the page access information as parameters in the form access information in response to the operation of the above user interface. The recruitment support system according to feature 2.

5. The recruitment support system according to claim 1, characterized in that the access information included in the notification information of the above job referral notification is access information for making the above form request to the above form providing server.

6. The above-mentioned recruitment support server is further characterized by comprising a point awarding unit that awards points to an employee who has introduced an acquaintance, under predetermined conditions according to the activities of the acquaintance introduced by the employee, and stores the awarded points in a storage medium in association with employee information, as described in any one of claims 1 to 5.

7. The recruitment support system according to claim 6, characterized in that the above-mentioned recruitment support server awards points to an employee who has introduced an acquaintance, based on the work performance of the acquaintance after joining the company, under the above-mentioned predetermined conditions.

8. A recruitment support server that assists in recruitment activities within a company, A referral notification unit that, in response to a referral request from an employee terminal used by an employee of the above company, generates access information that includes as parameters employee information that can identify the employee corresponding to the employee terminal from which the referral request was made, and sends a job referral notification to an acquaintance terminal used by an acquaintance of the above employee, which is a notification regarding a job opening at the above company and includes the access information mentioned above. The system includes a user interface for instructing a form provider server of an external party, different from the company, to present an external form created as an application form for the company's job postings, and a job information presentation unit that presents a web page containing the company's job postings, in response to a page request made from the acquaintance's terminal in accordance with the page access information, which is the access information included in the notification information of the above job referral notification, and a job information presentation unit that presents a web page containing the company's job postings. The above job information display unit presents the above web page, which is configured such that when the above user interface is operated, form access information is issued that includes the employee information contained in the page access information used for the above page request from the above acquaintance terminal, which is access information to the above form providing server, as parameters. The above external form is configured such that when a form request is made to the above form provider server according to the above form access information, the above employee information included as a parameter in the above form access information is pre-set in the corresponding fields of the above external form. A recruitment support server characterized by the following features.

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