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The author’s aim was to prove the hypothesis that trust, being a significant component of social capital, plays a crucial role in searching for new employees using the assistance of already employed persons, i.e. employee recommendations, for that purpose. The analysis conducted has confirmed that transitivity of trust is of use under the method applied. The body of the article is devoted to the following issues: the specificity of employee recommendations, the role of trust transitivity in employee recommendations and the indicators of applicability of trust based employee recommen¬dations in microenterprises.