Bringing Kestrion to Six Languages

Kestrion is now available in six languages, with more planned. Direct hiring is a global need, and limiting the product to English-speaking markets would have meant leaving out exactly the kind of candidates and recruiters who benefit most from a more direct alternative to job boards.

Translating a product that's built around trust and precise language — job titles, skill names, legal pages — is harder than translating marketing copy. A mistranslated button label is a minor annoyance; a mistranslated Terms of Service section is a real problem. We treated legal and safety-critical text as a separate, higher-scrutiny translation pass from the rest of the interface.

We also had to decide what not to translate literally. Job titles in particular don't map cleanly between languages and labor markets — a title that's standard in one country's job market can be unfamiliar or misleading in another. Rather than forcing a literal translation, we worked market-by-market to make sure the industry and job-title lists reflect how roles are actually described locally.

The result isn't a single English product with a translation layer bolted on — each supported language has its own reviewed set of industries, job titles, and legal text, kept in sync as the platform evolves.

This is an ongoing project, not a one-time launch. As we add industries and expand into new regions, language coverage grows alongside it.