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Engage Blog is run by Paul Jacobs from New Zealand. Paul has a background in Occupational Psychology, Recruitment Strategy, Hiring Technology and Online Community Leadership. Paul is currently involved in a number of projects including TribeHQ http://www.tribehq.com Recruitment 2.0 Asia Pacific http://thoughtleaders.ning.com and his own site Engage http://www.engageonline.co.nz/




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Engage Launch: DeepSearch.co.nz - Uncovering hidden talent on the social web
10:44pm Wednesday 26 August 2009 - Engage

Engage is excited to offer a new and very unique service to New Zealand employers. Deepsearch is all about sourcing talent on the social web. We do not advertise vacancies in newspapers or on job boards. We’re out there mining online social networks. We’re tapping into niche communities, industry and referral networks, LinkedIn, Facebook, [...]
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Engage WTF is Social Recruiting?
8:19am Tuesday 28 July 2009 - Engage

NB: This is re-post. The term ‘social recruiting’ is soooooo hot right now. It’s on the lips of recruitment commentators, consultants, recruiters, and vendors. There is even a global wave of conferences and seminars on the topic. So what does social recruiting mean? Well, from my observations, it means a myriad of things to different people. [...]
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Engage Crowdsourcing in recruitment - what impact will this have on the profession?
10:35am Thursday 16 July 2009 - Engage

NB: This is a re-post from Recruitment 2.0 Asia Pacific I read a book recently by Jeff Howe called Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business. Howe coined the term ‘crowdsourcing‘ in June 2006 in a Wired article to describe the process by which the power of the many can [...]
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Engage Copy of slides - HRINZ Recruitment Special Interest Group, Wellington
6:56am Thursday 18 June 2009 - Engage

Recruitment & employer branding on the social web View more PDF documents from pauljacobs4real.
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Engage The Social Recruiting Summit - I’m wagging my tail
6:09am Thursday 18 June 2009 - Engage

NB: This is a re-post. Yesterday I attended, along with about 225 other attendees, the inaugural Social Recruiting Summit at the Googleplex in Silicon Valley, USA. Unlike other conferences I’ve been to in stuffy hotels and auditoriums, I was really looking forward to seeing the Google work environment. I’ve heard so much about their campus style workplace. [...]
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Engage TribeHQ enters early beta stage
1:56pm Sunday 08 February 2009 - Engage

TribeHQ, as reported on previously, has quietly entered its beta testing stage.  The development team are still adding core features, but want to get the concept out into the public domain so people can interact with the platform, and submit their thoughts, feedback and suggestions.  To a recruiter audience, TribeHQ is a next generation job board. [...]
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Engage NZ Recruitment 2.0 becomes Recruitment 2.0 Asia Pacific
8:09pm Monday 19 January 2009 - Engage

The NZ Recruitment 2.0 online community, established in April 2006, has widened its breadth to include other countries in the Asia Pacific region. There’s a lot of interesting stuff happening in the region, and Recruitment 2.0 Asia Pacific should benefit New Zealand members and those members not too far from NZ’s shores.  The Australians could learn from Kiwis and [...]
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Engage 2009 recruitment predictions
7:19pm Sunday 04 January 2009 - Engage

    Happy New Year!  I hope the year is a positive one for you and not too turbulent in the uncertain economic times ahead. Well, it’s that time of year again, when bloggers make their predictions for the next 12 months.  I’ve enjoyed glancing at a range of recruitment / social media / technology blogs on this very topic. [...]
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Engage Boston Legal, Hamilton, and NZ recruitment
12:02pm Friday 19 December 2008 - Engage

“Compensation for victims is likely to include a lucrative career opportunity with rapid career advancement, and unparalleled lifestyle benefits such as lower housing and living costs, shorter commuting times, and a work-life balance.”    Thanks to NZ Recruitment 2.0 member, Lauren Young for alerting me to this innovative approach to recruitment advertising from Hamilton-based legal firm Tompkins Wake. Check [...]
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Engage A meaty recruitment webinar
3:12pm Monday 15 December 2008 - Engage

Sometimes recruitment agencies are unkindly referred to as sausage factories. So what happens when a recruitment agency teams up with a sausage and smallgoods manufacturer on a recruitment assignment? Answer: innovation. New Zealand-based recruitment agency Farrow Jamieson teamed up recently with Heller Tasty Ltd to recruit a Human Resources Manager, based at their Kaiapoi Head Office [...]
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