A multilingual job platform for an international recruitment program

Bespoke Recruitment Program places young adults into work experience abroad. The promise on the front of the site is simple, a global career, but what sits behind it is not a brochure. It is a job platform.

The site serves two audiences who want opposite things. Candidates want to browse, imagine themselves somewhere else, and apply without much friction. Host companies want qualified applicants and a process that filters before it reaches them. A single marketing page cannot do both, so the build carries real platform machinery: candidate accounts, live vacancy listings, saved and shortlisted roles, and applications that persist rather than vanishing into an inbox.

Language is the harder constraint. The audience is spread across borders by definition, and a recruitment site is exactly the wrong place to ask someone to read a second language: the visitor is making a decision about years of their life, often while nervous, often on a phone. So the experience is delivered in multiple languages throughout, not just on the landing page, which means the listings, the account flows and the application steps all had to be built to translate rather than having translation bolted on at the end.

The structural decision worth naming is that vacancies are data, not pages. Placements change constantly, so the site had to let the program publish and retire roles itself without a developer in the loop. Anything else would have meant the site was out of date the week after launch.