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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 .

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...

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".

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.

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

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.

Declan Fitzgerald, recruiter, blogger, networker and founder of Irish Recruiters on LinkedIn has now joined LinkedIn as their Head of International Recruitment.
Declan is a technology evangelist for the recruitment sector, and his hard work in encouraging recruiters in Ireland to up their game has resulted in not only a hugely
social/valuable recruiter network but also in education with the course he has developed with the CIPD and the Irish Times. Declan is no stranger to Sonru.

Good news, AOL is hiring! They announced a further 20 new software engineering jobs at its Dublin Development Centre with immediate effect. The 20 new jobs are in addition to the 50 software engineering jobs they announced in June of this year. The majority of the new jobs are with their Media Technology division and will focus on developing AOL’s global media channels which includes over 80 individual brands.

A recent study conducted by Opinion Matters in the UK found that recruitment departments are experiencing increased expense owing to the unprecedented rise in job applications since the economic downturn.

Telco giant Cisco predicts that all forms of video (TV, VoD, Internet video, and peer-to-peer) will continue to exceed 91pc of global consumer traffic by 2014 according to their Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2009-2014. They maintain that global Internet video traffic will surpass global peer-to-peer traffic by the end of 2010. By the end of this year, the global online video community will include more than 1 billion users and by 2014, it would take more than two years to watch the amount of video that will cross global IP networks every second; to watch all the video crossing the network that year would take 72 million years. So video is here to stay. This is good news for Sonru, an online video technology company.