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Enniscorthy 13 March, 2011. Sonru today launched two short animations to explain the automated video interviewing process. The animations, which were produced by Igloo Animations, consist of an 'Overview of automated video interviewing' and a more specific 'How does it work?' and are targeted at HR directors, recruiters and hiring managers.
Posted to Recruitment 2012, Press Releases, Super Sonru on April 13 2011. Comments (0)
Sonru client CERN, one of the world's largest and most respected centres for scientific research, were featured in an article in this month's issue of The Grapevine magazine. James Purvis, CERN's Head of Recruitment, Programmes and Monitoring gave a compelling interview about their innovative recruitment practices.
Posted to Recruitment 2012 on March 16 2011. Comments (0)
Seth Godin, the godfather of permission marketing, has written over a dozen books that have been translated into more than thirty languages. According to his bio, he writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything. Seth is something of a hero in Sonru and most of us subscribe to his daily RSS feed. Today he wrote about skilled and unskilled labor, it's short and sweet like all his musings but it's reproduced below, interesting food for thought from Seth as always.
Posted to Recruitment 2012 on March 11 2011. Comments (0)
The Wall Street Journal published an article earlier in the week entitled 'Jobs Open, but Filling Them Slows Down' about recruiters' problems finding candidates for skilled positions and/or the prolonged hiring process. Then today I read with interest in Business & Leadership another article along the same lines entitled 'Recruitment difficulties facing Irish companies'. What's going on? Surely there's an abundance of ready talent waiting in the wings to apply to relevant jobs.
Posted to Recruitment 2012 on March 10 2011. Comments (0)
City & Guilds - the UK's leading vocational education organisation and largest supplier of Apprenticeship qualifications, launched a report 'Building Business Through Apprenticeships' earlier this month and it makes for very interesting reading. The findings are based on the responses of over 500 employers surveyed across the UK. Two-thirds of employers (66 per cent) believe Apprenticeships are vital to ensure that the UK can compete in the changing global economy but despite this, currently there are only eleven Apprenticeship places for every 1000 employees in the UK .
Posted to Recruitment 2012 on February 25 2011. Comments (0)
Sonru are delighted to announce our sponsorship of the Personality of the Year Award at the onrec Industry Awards 2011. We've chosen to sponsor this award category because we're a video technology company with a big personality and that's not all...
Posted to Recruitment 2012 on February 16 2011. Comments (0)
Last week, Google announced they had received 75,000 applications for their current hiring spree of 6,000 new jobs worldwide. According to a blog post written by Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering and research at Google, they're "looking for top talent, we’ll hire as many smart, creative people as we can to tackle some of the toughest challenges in computer science: like building a Web-based operating system from scratch, instantly searching an index of more than 100 million gigabytes and even developing cars that drive themselves".
Posted to Recruitment 2012 on February 10 2011. Comments (0)
Facebook is hiring but they're not just listing vacancies and inviting applications. Oh no, they've made a snazzy online video with contributions from their staff talking about Facebook's vision for the future. It's a call to action to make a contribution no matter what discipline you're from. Looking through their careers pages, there are plenty of jobs in the Dublin office too.
Posted to Video Interviewing / Recruitment, Recruitment 2012 on November 29 2010. Comments (0)
The CIPD in the UK's Annual HR Conference and Exhibition which takes place over three days kicked off yesterday in Manchester. Jackie Orme, Chief Executive, told delegates in her opening address that changes to CIPD services, designed to strengthen support for members in their jobs, will be introduced early in 2011.
"We’ve undertaken extensive research to build the deepest and broadest possible understanding of the HR profession’s needs.Members are looking for the most up-to-date news and information, thought-provoking insight and clear practical help. Our changes aim to deliver all of that more effectively." Jackie Orme, Chief Executive, CIPD
Posted to Recruitment 2012 on November 10 2010. Comments (0)
As video continues to join the mainstream in the recruitment process, the latest addition to the array of solutions available to today's jobseeker may just prove a little too out of reach. The Augmented Reality CV is the brainchild of CWJobs and David Wood, the co-founder of Symbian. An Augmented Reality CV attempts to bring a traditional CV to life by using audio and visual technology and they're hoping it will be the CV of the future.
Posted to Video Interviewing / Recruitment, Recruitment 2012 on October 12 2010. Comments (0)
