Recruitment company website redesign

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We're looking to redesign our current website, located at http://www.people2people.com.au, to make it more FRESH, modern, easy-to-navigate, and user-friendly. Navigation should be very obvious, and buttons should be big. The design should be closer to the flat/clean look of Google or iOS7 rather than the somewhat older embossed look.
The design also needs to take into consideration that the coding will be responsive (mobile, tablet, etc.-friendly).
We'd like to see your work on two pages, and from there, we'll choose a designer that we will pay further to design the rest of the site. The two pages we will need are:
1. A home page, with the content detailed in the attached image home-outline.jpg. Keep in mind that this is a very rough outline with no design whatsoever, so please take those elements and create a beautiful page from it. Feel free to move the content around if necessary, as long as that's all on there. We're pretty open to whatever you think would look best.
Using high quality images could look great, and we'd purchase the perfect stock photos down the line, but for now just use any business-related images that aren't too cheesy (stay away from anything that looks too stock image-y like smiling actors).
2. A talent dashboard. This will live as a separate microsite; therefore, the design should be consistent with the home page but also be separate. Here, you have some more freedom with the design, but use our overall style and make it look like a user dashboard - very simple and easy to translate for responsive design.
There should be a horizontal menu that includes: "Edit Profile," "Apply for a Job," "WHS" (this will have a drop-down submenu), "My History" (also with a drop-down submenu), and "Contact."
Above that menu should be a place for users to sign in/out. Below the menu will be a welcome message and then a notice board for our updates.
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Industry/Entity Type
Business
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Requirements
Must have
- Please use our current color scheme, fonts, and logo. Attached is our logo and style guidelines. Not included in those style guidelines is the orange we also incorporate into our designs, which is #ff9a00.
Also have a look at http://www.people2people.com.au, http://www.people2people.com.au/blog, and http://www.facebook.com/people2peoplerecruitment. We want to take our current look and just modernize it a bit.