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Last week we had the pleasure of talking with Lorraine Connolly, the managing director from <\/span>Silicon Armada<\/span>. She shared with us some insight into the distinguishing features of their international job board and their plans for the future.<\/span><\/h4>\n

How would you describe Silicon Armada?<\/h2>\n

Our mission is to connect tech professionals and tech employers wherever they are. As an organization we want to be the number 1 website for IT-jobs<\/strong> worldwide. Eighteen months down the line we can easily say that we are on our way of succeeding in that mission. With over 200,000 open tech positions<\/strong> in more than 1500 IT-companies in our index, we are the most comprehensive jobsite dedicated to careers in technology industry.a<\/p>\n

In terms of traffic, we have 200,000 visitors monthly, resulting in an estimated 1,500 applications per month. This is increasing month over month and we expect to keep growing steadily. However, for us quality is more important than quantity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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What are the specific features of your job search engine that make it so different from your national competitors?<\/h3>\n

Silicon Armada as a career platform is founded on two things; a belief that there\u2019s an international tech community<\/strong>, and which can be engaged through the use of innovative technologies and business models.<\/p>\n

For us, sourcing the best tech talent does not stop with national borders. Truly innovative companies look beyond national borders. Our aim is to promote international mobility and flexibility<\/strong> by making it easy for job seekers to explore job opportunities around the world from one single platform. Compared to our competition we are a truly international platform with traffic from all over the world.<\/p>\n

Secondly, we are a strong believer of using proven innovative technologies<\/strong> and business models. For example, we were inspired by the rise of job aggregators in the recent years. We therefore decided to move away from the traditional job board model in favour of aggregation.<\/p>\n

Together with our partner Opening we are working on improving the search experience through the use of artificial intelligence<\/strong>. We are still testing, but soon finding a job or a candidate will be as easy as uploading your CV or job description. Our intelligent algorithm will then match the job description against the CV\u2019s in our database.<\/p>\n

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What are some of the major challenges your company will have to face in the coming years?<\/h4>\n

The job board market is a fast changing and competitive industry<\/strong>. When it comes to recruiting IT-professionals there is a real problem and many organisations are trying to solve that issue through, sometimes very bold, but smart innovations.<\/p>\n

From the start we believed in evolution rather than revolution<\/strong>, which means that we\u2019ll have to stay on top of our game to spot innovative technologies and business models and adopt where needed.<\/p>\n

Some of the trends that we see:<\/p>\n