Career & Recruitment Platform
Overview
Russian Railways is one of the largest employers in the country, offering a wide range of career paths — from school students and interns to experienced professionals and technical experts.
This case describes the design of a unified career and recruitment platform that brought together job applications, internships, education programs, and candidate progress tracking into a single digital experience.
Product type
Enterprise Recruitment Platform
(B2C / B2E / Gov-scale) Multi-phase rollout
My role
Senior Product Designer
UX architecture · platform flows · learning journeys · video training UX · UI · stakeholder alignment
Platforms
The design process
Approaching
Iterations
Approaching
Candidate problems
Difficult to understand available career paths
Different portals for jobs, internships, and education
No clear view of application or selection status
Business problems
Fragmented candidate data across systems
Manual coordination between HR, education, and hiring teams
Low conversion from interest to completed applications
Inconsistent employer brand experience
Main page
Career page
Iterations
UX writing
Stakeholders review
Legal team requirements
Design system integration
Development team
UX Strategy
The core UX idea was to shift from vacancy-based thinking to career journey thinking. Design principles
One platform for all career scenarios
Clear differentiation by audience and experience level
Transparent progress tracking
Consistent experience across programs and roles
Results
The unified platform delivered measurable impact:
124%
increase in completed
job applications
750%
growth in education
program applications
-40%
reduction in manual HR
coordination effort
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Event
Outcome
The platform became a single source of truth for career entry and development across the organization. This project demonstrates my experience in designing:
Large-scale recruitment platforms
Multi-audience digital ecosystems
Candidate-centric UX for enterprise hiring
Products connecting recruitment, education, and growth
Case
Government Payments Platform
I’ve had the chance to work with some truly great people across a variety of companies — it was both fun and rewarding. Hopefully one day you’ll cross paths with them, and they’ll have good things to say about what we accomplished together
