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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.

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 Asia Pacific CEO, Luke Falvey, was interviewed recently on Malaysia's BFM radio station in Tech Talk: Changing the Face of Interviews. Luke spoke about Sonru's origins, the early challenges, candidate feedback and examples of client usage. Listen or download the podcast.

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.

The blog article discussed how with the 'wealth of opportunities on offer, a growing number of Irish professionals have made Singapore their new home.' The article featured the recruitment market and interviewed companies and organisations such as Berkley Recruitment and Sonru Asia Pacific. Promising a vibrant Irish community we learned that societies such as  the Irish Chamber of Commerce and the St Patrick’s Society of Singapore and Gaelic Lions GAA Club offered a welcome to the new Irish in Singapore.

Sonru featured in this month's edition of the Irish Connection - the email newsletter from Connecting Ireland, an Enterprise Ireiand initiative to foster growth in Irish businesses in Australia and New Zealand. 

James Purvis, Head of Recruitment, Programmes & Monitoring Group at CERN contributed a case study to this month's Talent Engagement Review. Since trialing the product, CERN have conducted over 150 video screening interviews and according to Purvis they "have had a 99 per cent response rate from candidates with much positive feedback."
 

It was a busy June 1st for Sonru founder Ed Hendrick as he attended a special ceremony at Aras an Uachtarain hosted by President Mary McAleese. The event organised by cross-border body InterTradeIreland identified Sonru as one of sixty-five Business Ambassadors from across Ireland.

Sonru founder Ed Hendrick will be a guest this coming Sunday (February 27th 2011) on Down to Business, Newstalk's popular radio show. Dragons' Den panelist Bobby Kerr hosts this weekly show and will be talking to Ed and other finalists in the SFA National Business Awards 2011. Tune in on Sunday on 106-108 fm, the show normally runs from 10-11 but we can't promise it'll run to schedule given the Irish Election #GE11.

Late last week Sonru issued a press release announcing the conclusion of our first serious funding round which brings the total capital raised to over €1 million. As alway the Irish print media and online players have been very supportive and featured our good news in the following publications: