The “War for Talents” has already started – hard times for companies, which are not located on
the European hot spots, like Berlin, Paris, and London. “Open for Talents” aims to develop new
opportunities to enable especially countryside located enterprises to offer their special
location advantages to the applicants by using public open-data platforms. A tremendous and
prevailing worldwide information source can be used free of charge. By implementing users´
needs, search algorithms and masks as well as a novel visualisation of results to deliver a clear
decision support. With “Open for Talents” an innovative and user-friendly concept will support
European companies´ worldwide recruiting ambitions. To ensure a broad acceptance of the
“Open for Talents” application, multi-cultural user experience testing scenarios will be developed
and applied.