# We built isHiring because we needed it ourselves. Before isHiring was a product, it was our own hiring problem. We found what was really broken, tested every step with and without AI for 9 months, and built the tool we still run today. Canonical: https://lingkari.com/ishiring-story Built for our own hiring first, then shaped with a few companies we work with. 9 months: Every step, with and without AI. AI scores. A person decides. - APPLIED: Warehouse Staff (JobStreet), Finance Admin (Career page), Customer Service - SCREENING: Sales Executive (Strong fit), Customer Service (Good fit) - INTERVIEW: Finance Admin (Booked) - OFFER: Ops Lead (Your call) ## Our own hiring was a mess. Before isHiring, this was a normal hiring week for us. We were the client with the problem. - CVs screened by hand, one by one - Applications came by email and piled up unanswered - No tracking. Nobody knew who was at which stage - Candidates kept asking where they were in the process - Interviews arranged by hand, with no scheduling - Tests sent manually to each candidate - No candidate database. Good past applicants were lost, and every opening started from zero - Too many Excel sheets ## Why we built it instead of buying. We looked at job boards and hiring tools first. Two things kept pushing us to build our own. ### A career page that is ours Job boards promote themselves, not your company. We wanted a career page with our own brand, where candidates see us first. ### One candidate pool, not several JobStreet is one click away. Connect it, post your job there, and every applicant lands in isHiring with everyone else. One pipeline for every applicant ## 9 months of testing, with and without AI. We rebuilt our hiring one step at a time. For every step we tried it with AI and without AI, and kept whichever worked better. 9 months to find the most efficient way to hire, step by step. Only one step earned AI. The rest worked better as plain automation. - **Screening CVs**: WITH AI Kept, WITHOUT AI Tried. WHAT WE KEPT: AI fit score and notes. A person decides. - **Moving candidates through the pipeline**: WITH AI Tried, WITHOUT AI Kept. WHAT WE KEPT: Plain automation - **Scheduling interviews**: WITH AI Tried, WITHOUT AI Kept. WHAT WE KEPT: Plain automation with Google Calendar - **Sending tests to candidates**: WITH AI Tried, WITHOUT AI Kept. WHAT WE KEPT: Plain automation ## AI scores. A person decides. Screening is where AI earned its place. It reads each application, gives a fit score, and points out what to pay attention to. The hiring call stays with a person, because hiring needs a human touch. - **AI helps with screening**: A fit score and notes for every candidate. - **A person decides**: Who moves forward stays a human call. - **Full automation is optional**: Companies that want to can automate that step too. - **No AI anywhere else**: Pipeline, scheduling, and sending tests are plain automation. ### Candidate review Rina S., Applied for Sales Executive, via JobStreet. AI FIT SCORE: Strong fit. WHAT TO PAY ATTENTION TO: Several years in B2B sales; Has managed key accounts; Ask about experience with field teams. A PERSON DECIDES: Not now / Move to interview. Auto-advance strong fits (Optional, off by default). ## What changed. Each pain from our own hiring now has a fix in isHiring. Most of them didn't need AI. - Applications scattered in email → One pipeline for every candidate - No company career page → A branded career page on its own subdomain - Interview invites sent by hand → Interview scheduling with Google Calendar - No idea who is at which stage → Candidate tracking and scorecards - Screening every CV by hand → AI fit score and notes. A person decides. - Job board candidates kept in a separate place → Connect JobStreet in one click. Applicants are curated in isHiring. ## This is how we work for clients too. isHiring is the Lingkari method applied to our own problem. Your project follows the same four steps. - 1. **Find the real problem**. IN ISHIRING: We listed every step that slowed our hiring down. FOR YOUR BUSINESS: A free diagnosis and a 1-page problem map. - 2. **Test with and without AI**. IN ISHIRING: Each step tested both ways over 9 months. FOR YOUR BUSINESS: A pilot on one workflow before anything bigger. - 3. **Build the right tool**. IN ISHIRING: AI where it worked better, plain automation everywhere else. FOR YOUR BUSINESS: A fixed-price build with the right mix of tools. - 4. **Keep running it**. IN ISHIRING: We still run and maintain isHiring today. FOR YOUR BUSINESS: Handover, training, and an optional retainer. ## Two ways to start. Use the tool we built for hiring, or let us find the real problem in your own process. ### Hiring in one place. A career page plus light ATS for companies that hire regularly. Live and in use, built and maintained by Lingkari. https://ishiring.id - Starter: Rp0, 3 active job openings, 1 user - Pro: Rp199rb/mo, or Rp1.99jt/yr - Business: Rp499rb/mo, or Rp4.99jt/yr ### Have your own messy process? Hiring was our problem. Yours might be leads, orders, or reports. Start with a free diagnosis: a call plus a 1-page problem map, including where AI fits and where it doesn't. ## Book a free diagnosis Fill in the form and we will reply within 1 working day to schedule your diagnosis call. The call and the 1-page problem map are free. Form: https://lingkari.com/ishiring-story#booking Prefer email? hello@lingkari.com WhatsApp: 0851-2800-2801 (https://wa.me/6285128002801)