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Many of our users have uploaded a video introduction and we thought we'd help you along by sharing the following observations we have made on what other Sonru clients have considered for their Video Introductions. So here are 8 tips to exploit this fantastic functionality.   

Asean, is the 10-country association of South East Asian nations, is hoping to create a single market by 2015, the Asean Economic Community (AEC) which will be the fifth most powerful trading bloc on the planet. The Spring edition of Enterprise Ireland's magazine The Market took a look at some of the lead economies, emerging opportunities and irish experiences doing business in the region and needless to say Sonru's operation in Singapore featured as a success story.

Following the great success of the CRSS 2011,  the second seminar CRSS13 took place on 22nd February 2013. In the summary video embedded below, CERN's Head of Talent Acquisition James Purvis credited Sonru's very own Joy Redmond for planting the idea of running a best practice seminar.

In his Weekly Wednesday Webinar, the onmipresent Johnny Campbell  looked at how to streamline and automate parts of the recruitment and selection process where vast amounts of time is wasted, both for the Recruiter and the Candidate.

Sonru, a multi award winning automated video interview and selection company, today announced the appointment of Agata Kaluza  as Business Development Partner, Poland. Agata will play a lead role in accelerating Sonru’s growth in Poland and Central Europe.

Sonru, a multi award winning automated video interview and selection company, today announced the appointment of Deborah Hassolanidis  as Country Manager, South Africa. Deborah will play a lead role in accelerating Sonru’s growth in South Africa.

Sonru's Maiken O'Byrne attended a reception last week hosted by the US-Ireland Alliance to honor the 2012 class of George J. Mitchell Scholars. Applications are now open for the 2013-2014 Mitchell Scholarship which funds a year of postgraduate study in Ireland or Northern Ireland. Created in 2001, the Mitchell quickly became recognized as a highly competitive scholarship, vying with the more established Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships and this year,  Sonru's video interviewing solution will form an integral part of the application process.

Sonru's Fergal O'Byrne (former CEO of the Irish Internet Association) returned to the IIA recently where he joining an impressive line-up of speakers at the IIA's 2012 conference entitled "BUILDING BRICS" in the Aviva. Fergal spoke about Sonru's international growth and localizing the Sonru application to multiple languages.

We've been invited to present a few modules on video interviewing/video selection on some of the Human Capital Institute's courses over the past year or so. Well their schedule of upcoming courses in now online. The Human Capital Strategist (HCS) and Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) Certification courses are about to start and can be completed ONLINE and ON-SITE in 20 major metro areas.

Sonru was featured in Gartner's Market Guide for E-Recruitment Solutions (Published: 9 February 2012) under the heading  "Improving Interviewing and Assessment." The report discussed how unstructured interviews have proven themselves to be poor indicators of actual performance and then referred to the growth of video interviewing tools (such as Sonru) which can be integrated with ATS solutions such as Taleo.