Sonru.com

Enniscorthy, 17 May 2010. Sonru.com today announced that IrishJobs.ie, the No.1 and longest running recruitment website in Ireland, is the first recruitment website in Ireland to offer video interviewing through Sonru's automated online interview tool

L-R Gregory Owens, Sales Director, IrishJobs.ie, Edward Hendrick, Founder & Director of Product Development, Sonru.com and Fergal O'Byrne, CEO, Sonru.com

Sonru, who recently won the National Bright Ideas Challenge, provides a smart, convenient, and economical tool for remotely interviewing people online. It focuses on making the interview process very simple, and effectively saves employers time and money. IrishJobs.ie is always seeking to use new technologies to enhance its service and is delighted to be in a position to offer this innovative service to all its clients.???

Fergal O’Byrne, CEO, Sonru.com commented: ‘’We are delighted to partner with IrishJobs.ie. They are a very enthusiastic adopter of new and innovative technologies and video interviewing fits perfectly with their existing product suite and offers real value to their customer base. We are currently working with other websites within the saongroup.com portfolio, parent company of IrishJobs.ie, to develop our overall strategy of global growth.”

Gregory Owens, Sales Director, IrishJobs.ie also commented: “This is an exciting addition to the IrishJobs.ie offering. There are currently 15,469 positions live on the IrishJobs.ie website. With customers receiving an average of 20 applications for every job advertised on IrishJobs.ie they need help screening these applications and ensuring that they don’t inadvertently miss an ideal candidate.  With the addition of online video interviewing technology, customers will now be able to get a genuine experience of each candidate before they ever meet them in person through Sonru’s secure video interviews’’??? Owens continued ‘’Online video interviewing will enable employers to save time and money when choosing the successful candidate, while at the same time ensuring that they a making the best choice when shortlisting candidates. We are delighted to be providers of this innovative offering.”???

About Sonru (www.sonru.com)

Sonru is an automated online video tool. It has applications within the Recruitment, Education, Training and CRM sectors. Sonru provide secure, shareable video interviews. The tool can be used anywhere that remote video can bring efficiencies to a business process.

Winner: Best of Breed iGap (Internet Growth Acceleration Programme)

Winner: Innovate!100 Pitch Slam Dublin 2010

Winner: Bank of Ireland Bright Ideas Challenge Grand Final 2010

Sonru’s Edward Hendrick  has been shortlisted for the Innovation Awardat the Irish Internet Association’s Net Visionary Awards 2010,  the winner of which will be announced at the IIA Congress on May 20^th.  For more information: http://www.sonru.com/blog/C7/

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Further information and availability of Sonru management for interview, please contact:
Joy Redmond; joy@sonru.com or 086 8561682