Akbank Career Primary Function: Värbamisplatvorm by Akbank Design Studio Staff Channel

Akbank Career Primary Function: Värbamisplatvorm by Akbank Design Studio Staff Channel is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Kuldauhind A' Design Award in Tarkvaradisain Competition Category.

KuldTarkvara· 2026

Akbank Career Primary Function: Värbamisplatvorm

by Akbank Design Studio Staff Channel

Client: Akbank T.a.Ş

Kuldauhind A' Design Award Winner in Tarkvara Category

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The Design

About Akbank Career Primary Function: Värbamisplatvorm

Book Text: Akbank Career on terviklik värbamisplatvorm, mis muudab töölevõtmise ühtseks digitaalseks kogemuseks. Ühendades kandidaadid, värbajad ja värbamisjuhid ühte ökosüsteemi, käsitleb see kogemust strateegilise väärtusena. Andmepõhisele uurimistööle tuginedes suurendab platvorm läbipaistvust, kiirendab protsesse ja parandab otsuste kvaliteeti. Skaleeritava lahendusena vähendab see sõltuvust välistest teenusepakkujatest, toetades samal ajal pikaajalist digitaalset transformatsiooni.

The Recognition

About the Kuldauhind A' Design Award

Akbank Career Primary Function: Värbamisplatvorm on Kuldauhinna A' Design Award võitja, ülimalt prestiižikas tunnustus, mis antakse esmaklassilistele, imelistele ja silmapaistvatele disainidele. Kuldvõitjad on ülimalt uuenduslikud, visioonilised ja glamuurselt pimestavad looming, mis peegeldab oma disainerite geniaalsust, tarkust ja oskusi. Akbank Career Primary Function: Värbamisplatvorm peaks olema kõrgelt kiidetud, suundi seadev ja monumentaalne leiutis, mis pakub enneolematut väärtust. See Kuldauhinna A' Design Award võidudisain on suurejooneline, lugupeetud projekt, mis toob suurt kasu ning nihutab kunsti, teaduse, disaini ja tehnoloogia piire. Akbank Career Primary Function: Värbamisplatvorm tekitab intensiivset soovi, äratab kirge, julgustab loovust ja lummab meid.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Akbank Career is an end to end recruitment platform that combines candidate journeys and HR operations within a unified ecosystem. Beyond job listings, Explore and Blog sections transparently present company culture, working models, and development opportunities. Candidates can create personalized CVs for broader career use, track applications in real time, and message recruiters throughout the process. Recruiters and managers oversee all processes through a centralized, data informed dashboard.
Dimensions & Packaging: This enterprise recruitment platform unifies candidate journeys, HR operations, document management, and data driven reporting within a scalable digital ecosystem. Developed with an end to end experience approach and a design-system foundation, it runs on OpenShift based backend services with an Angular frontend architecture. The platform works adaptively across web, tablet, and mobile devices.
Tags: Career Website, Candidate Experience, User Experience, User Interface, Human Resources Technologies, Talent Management
Production Technology: The Akbank Career was developed through an iterative product development methodology grounded in user research. Adopting a user experience design approach, the experiences of candidates, recruiters, and hiring managers were addressed holistically, with prototypes and user testing conducted at every phase to validate design decisions. Built using an agile workflow, the platform is designed on a scalable and sustainable architecture integrated with internal systems.
Design Challenge: The core challenge was designing a large-scale career platform that could balance speed, technical constraints, and meaningful user experience. Within tight timelines and evolving technical boundaries, the team needed to translate research insights into practical, scalable design decisions. Coordinating multiple stakeholders across HR, IT, and business units required prioritization and alignment, while ensuring that usability, clarity, and candidate confidence were never compromised.
Research: This project included a mixed-method design research approach to redesign Akbank’s career website throughout the entire design cycle. The objective was to understand candidates’, employees’ and hiring managers’ expectations and remove friction in job discovery and application flows. We combined interviews, workshops, usability tests, surveys, tree tests and benchmarks with over 400 participants. Insights reshaped information architecture, content tone, filters and navigation, resulting in clearer job discovery, improved application experience and a more inclusive, transparent hiring journey.
Inspiration: The Akbank Career was shaped by the observed need for transparency, clarity, and visibility throughout the candidate journey, alongside opportunities to streamline and accelerate internal recruitment operations while eliminating dependency on external development partners.
Project Duration: The project started in October 2023 in Istanbul and finished in March, 2026 in Istanbul and was exhibited in Istanbul, 2026.
Operation Flow: Candidates explore job opportunities at Akbank, review the company’s culture and benefits, and apply to the roles that best match them. They can easily create and download their resumes to use on other platforms. Applicants track their application status through their profile and stay informed throughout the process. HR teams and managers view all candidates and positions in a single dashboard, enabling fast and secure hiring decisions.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Akbank T.A.Ş, 2026.
Team Members: Akbank Design Studio Staff Channel
Image Credits: Image #1: Illustrator, Akbank Design Studio, 2026.
Image #2: Illustrator, Akbank Design Studio, 2026.
Image #3: Illustrator, Akbank Design Studio, 2026.
Image #4: Illustrator, Akbank Design Studio, 2026.
Image #5: Illustrator, Akbank Design Studio, 2026.
Video Credits: Videographer, Akbank Design Studio, 2026.