Paul Jacobs

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Co-founder at TribeHQ Limited
Founder at Recuitment 2.0 Asia Pacific
Owner at Engage

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Paul Jacobs’s Summary

Recruitment strategy / HR specialist with a particular interest in bleeding-edge recruitment technologies and employment communications.

Co-founder of TribeHQ, a web-based conversational platform for different occupational groups that encourages global kinship, and sharing of ideas and knowledge across borders. Offers a completely new approach to online recruitment.

Excited by the opportunities that emerging technologies and social media offer to jobseekers and employers.

Founder of Recruitment 2.0 Asia Pacific (http://thoughtleaders.ning.com), an online community of professionals in the Asia Pacific region interested in recruitment innovations, recruitment technologies, social media etc.

Paul Jacobs’s Specialties:

- Technology product development
- Online community leadership & enablement
- Recruitment 2.0
- Recruitment strategy consulting
- Employment marketing
- Market segmentation
- Research-based methodologies
- Emerging technologies
- Employer branding
- Targeted sourcing strategies
- ATS selection & implementation
- Recruitment measurement
- Talent pipeline development
- Building recruiter capability
- Psychometric assessment
- Assessment centre design & implementation

Paul Jacobs’s Experience

Co-founder

TribeHQ Limited

(Online Media industry)

December 2008 — Present (8 months)

TribeHQ is a web-based platform that:
1. Enables occupational tribalism – members select the tribe or tribes applicable to them – e.g. nurses, engineers, teachers, .Net developers
2. Encourages conversation between tribe members, using micro-blogging as the foundation
3. Re-invents recruitment advertising - think interactive job board!
Founder

Recuitment 2.0 Asia Pacific

(Online Media industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Recruitment 2.0 Asia Pacific is a community of professionals who share an interest in the evolution of recruitment within the APAC region.
Owner

Engage

(Privately Held; Public Relations and Communications industry)

April 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

A consulting services business. Engage works with employers and recruitment agencies to target and engage with their active and passive jobseeker audiences.