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With over ten years of professional experience and a solid track record in IT recruitment agencies in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shangai, Japan, Singapore, and Dubai, Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment is dedicated to helping IT professionals gain access to the industry's best opportunities.

Why Software Developers Should Prioritize User Experience

SVA Recruitment Hong Kong is essential for finding top talent in today's quickly changing digital world. Hong Kong IT recruitment agencies are essential for navigating the constantly shifting tech landscape.

How Computer programming can help a startup company with innovation?

Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment is a Hong Kong-based IT Recruitment firm that specializes in the Asia Pacific IT sector. Our IT Recruitment Agency helps businesses find and hire qualified IT workers to strengthen their internal teams.

Top Tech Skills in Demand for 2024

Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment is a Hong Kong-based IT recruitment firm that specializes in the Asia Pacific IT sector. Our IT recruitment team helps businesses find and hire qualified IT workers to strengthen their internal teams.

The Fintech Startups Redefining the Financial Landscape in Hong Kong

Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment is an IT recruitment agency located in Hong Kong that specializes in the Asia Pacific IT market. Our tech recruiters help companies find qualified and skilled IT professionals to join their corporate teams.

Mastering CIO Leadership in Hong Kong's Tech Hub

Focusing on the Asia Pacific IT and IT Market, Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment is a Hong Kong-based IT Recruitment Agency.

Essential GameFi Skillsets for Hong Kong

Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment, known as SVA Recruitment, stands as a prominent IT recruitment agency operating in Hong Kong.

7 Key Advantages of AI as a Service in Hong Kong

Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment is an IT Recruitment Agency with offices in Hong Kong that serves businesses and job seekers in the Asia Pacific region's IT and tech sector.

Your Guide to a Seamless IT Recruitment Process in Hong Kong

Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment is an IT Recruitment Agency with offices in Hong Kong that serves businesses and job seekers in the Asia Pacific region's IT and tech sector.

How to Attract and Retain Top Tech Talent: A Guide for Modern Companies in Hong Kong

Hong Kong's thriving tech industry has led to intense competition for top tech talent in the region.

IT Candidate Assessment Best Practices in Hong Kong

Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment is an IT Recruitment Agency with offices in Hong Kong that serves businesses and job seekers in the Asia Pacific region's IT and tech sector.

Top 10 Tips For Successful Social Recruiting in 2023

Social recruiting has become a critical part of the recruitment process globally, given the significant role of social media in people's lives.

4 Best Practices to become a Highly Effective Data Science Leader

We are in an immensely competitive tech world today, and as a professional IT Recruitment Agency in Hong Kong, Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment believes that effective leadership is more than just being knowledgeable about technology.

Turning these 8 IT leader challenges into opportunities in 2023

Three years back, many IT leaders were focusing on how to adopt AI approaches and techniques into their business models.

How can a CIO thrive in today's Tech Environment?

This year, a panel of leading tech recruiters at Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment, an IT Recruitment Agency in Shanghai, share their views on how to succeed in today’s one of most challenging job markets alongside the CEO role, as well as the imperative strategic acumen and value creation mindset required to compete effectively.

5 Tips for Senior IT Executives to successfully transition into IT Consultants

When it is time for IT leaders to move on from their role, many CIOs and IT Execs who work with Silicon Valley Associates Recruiter then choose to pursue another role in the C-suite or move into another position at a technology vendor or just start up their venture

How the new Generation Z has prompted New Strategies in Tech Sales

Tech Sales leaders who belong to Gen X and Baby boomers are frequently telling IT Recruitment Agencies in Dubai like Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment

4 URGENT Problems that lead to Data Scientists to quit their jobs

According to most IT Recruitment Agencies in Singapore at the start of the year, Data Scientists were expected to be in higher demand than ever before in 2022.

How to be a Prominent IT Leader? 5 Soft Skills You must Develop

In our daily work as an IT Recruitment Agency speaking to and placing top candidates, Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment has found that the most remarkable IT leaders possess several common qualities.

AI Bots are the future of recruitment this 2022

In the face of initial fears that the digital age would lead to massive unemployment, it has instead led to more jobs. Today, keen content assistants are needed to bridge the gap.

The 4 biggest challenges Tech Leaders will encounter in 2022

Looking forward to the new year, here are the biggest hurdles that Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment believes IT leaders will encounter in 2022, and what their game plan could be for an effective year of IT Recruitment

Common Misunderstandings on hiring IT Veterans

Over the years of our IT Recruiters at SVA Recruitment have come across many pushbacks by employers against hiring or even considering shortlisted ‘veteran’ candidates in the industry.

Why Your Top Performers may soon be Resigning

The IT industry is hit hardest, with 80% of tech managers saying they’ve seen a rise in turnover in 2021. Which of course is good news for IT Recruiters out in the US.

Why Data Engineering and MLOps will be the future of IT Recruitment

For most organizations, data is the new centerpiece of their operations, meaning Data Science, Data Engineering, and MLOps are the promising positions of the near future for IT Recruiters.

Technical Debt’- A reason why your Software Developers may be considering leaving your company.

In this article, Silicon Valley Associates Recruitment is going to reveal one major factor that pushes developers off the edge- ‘Technical Debt’

How to Consistently Attract IT Talents

With the intense competition for skilled tech talent, a few companies are holding off their IT recruitment or given up on attracting IT Talents to their organization.

Strategies to Widen your IT Talent Pipeline

Companies are reassessing their recruitment tactics to be certain they get to candidates beyond the conventional approach of hiring.

How to Win the IT Talent War: Choosing Top-Tier Talents

With the rampant development of technology, we cannot deny the rising demand for IT talents. IT careers and other IT-related jobs have become top demands in the business. Hiring the right IT people is already competition in the field itself.

4 Tips to Motivate and Retain IT Talents

An IT recruiter in Asia shares advice on increasing employee retention, especially among IT top talents.

Importance of Competitive Salary

One of the common mistakes for employers is overlooking the importance of providing a competitive salary to their employees. This is because they see it as an expense when, supposedly, it is an investment.

How to Write a Job Description 2021

Job descriptions are crucial to the success of the company. While it is not legally mandated by law, companies can gain practical benefits from it.

Opinion- US Election Implications for ASEAN / South East Asia

The upcoming US elections are already garnering a tremendous amount of coverage and the race to President looks to be particularly tense, particularly given some of the challenges currently facing American politics.

Decoupling China and the West

There is a clear decoupling taking place between China, and the US and West. So how will this impact the world, trade between the East and West - and recruitment in Hong Kong?

Opinion- What Does New National Security Law Mean For Future of business in HK

When it comes to successful recruitment in Hong Kong, businesses always know to scour the political, legal, and economic landscape for factors that might affect their operation - and their future resourcing needs.

Employers’ Checklist: Skills to look out for in hiring sales for the new age of virtual, online B2B sales

Technology has significantly advanced the face of business in the 21st-century, and the urgency of COVID-19 has instigated growth in a more virtual world.

Downturn Against Fast-growing but Possibly Unsustainable Young Companies

In a recent industry podcast, SoftBank discussed its investment losses on young companies such as Uber Technologies and WeWork.

Hong Kong Tech Sector Strong despite the ongoing US-China Trade War

After seeing the recent storming of the Hong Kong legislature, it would be easy to reach the conclusion that the entire city is at a standstill.

Hong Kong Service Sector down, but IT & Tech Hiring Resilient

As Hong Kong protests continue with major effects on tourism, retail, and employment, even HK's privileged position as a financial center could be challenged by Mainland and other APAC cities.

A Look Back at 2019: Year-End Greetings from SVA Recruitment

2019 was indeed a very abundant year for SVA Recruitment. Since our launch in November 2018, we have seen tremendous growth and achieved a handful of our organizational goals.

The Workplace - What to Invest in for 2020

With 2020 comes not just a new year, but a new decade. And in the past ten years, the way in which we work and the office spaces that we use have changed dramatically.

Looming Recession and How Some Clients are Preparing and Taking Advantage

Many business people and analysts believe that a recession will shortly impact Hong Kong and, potentially, much of Asia this year, with the global markets to follow in 2020.

How Employees Can Become Your Greatest Assets

It's one thing to fill your IT jobs in Hong Kong with bright candidates who offer plenty of potentials and a fantastic resume. But how do you develop them into true assets that your company can leverage for the longer term?

Ways to Entice and Hire Candidates During Difficult Times

When business gets tough and the market experiences any kind of contraction, companies have to get creative in their hiring approaches.

How to get the most from remote working, POST-Coronavirus?

The novel Covid-19 pandemic has led to a wave of home working across the world. Businesses which might otherwise have been slow to encourage home-working...

How Coronavirus will change the global jobs market

The Coronavirus pandemic is still very new and the situation continues to evolve. Already, much of the workforce has switched to home-working...

The New Normal: How to Keep Your Culture and Team Motivated Working from Home Post Covid-19

As the Covid-19 crisis continues around the world, business leaders are busy devising ways for their operations to work safely in the future...

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