ITV

A careers portal refresh for a UK multimedia broadcaster

When ITV approached us looking for a brand new careers portal which would integrate with their existing Intranet, we knew we’d need to harness both our technical development expertise and strong design edge to pull off the project.

The careers portal had to serve over 6000 ITV employees, giving staff access to information about employment within the company and open up career paths at ITV. The key objective? To give staff the information and tools required to actively manage their careers within the network.

The portal had to work as a smooth career's hub for all of ITV's staff

Through our discovery, we defined our objectives as:

• Build an intuitive web application that encourages users to nurture their careers at ITV
• Implement a design that meets the ITV brand guidelines
• Develop a platform that encourages users to explore the widest possible range of content
• Integrate the new portal with the existing ITV intranet
• Integrate and merge the new portal with ITV’s existing job listing platform
• Allow ITV employees to access the careers portal with a single sign in.

To achieve this, we decided the portal’s navigation was to be designed to help staff uncover new routes and fresh directions they may not have otherwise considered. Developing and honing a loosely structured navigation that enabled exploration was a huge priority from the very beginning of the project.

Designing a dynamic careers hub

The design of the portal itself was based on clear direction from ITV’s brand guidelines, which included the network’s strong colour palette. We applied these to dynamic and compelling page layouts and UX elements to encourage exploration of the resource.

We chose to build the portal on a Drupal CMS. The new careers resource incorporates a large number of Drupal core modules, including user management and CMS, which have been customised to suit the project.

We developed a careers portal that ITV employees love to use and actively want to explore

The new portal makes managing and envisioning career paths at the television network enjoyable and easy, hopefully nurturing plenty of professional growth within the company.