Vibe coding a LinkedIn talent radar — surfacing strong candidates for the recruiting team
Five open roles, two cities. A daily radar that ranks candidates by fit + availability and publishes JDs by share link. Demo by GemLabs.
🧪 A GemLabs lab. This is a GemLabs build journal — a weekend experiment in building real workflows with AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, written up as a hands-on tutorial. If you run hiring or recruit at any scale, the takeaway isn’t this one tool. It’s that you can describe your sourcing ritual in plain English and have an agent stand it up for you. Steal the pattern.
The trigger for this build was a tight quarter. GemCommerce has five open roles I want filled by end of June: a Marketing Manager in Hanoi, a Branding & Marketing Manager in Saigon, two senior full-stack developers in Saigon, and one bilingual EN/CN partnership executive — also Saigon. Five hires in two cities, against a recruiter who was already burning out scrolling LinkedIn an hour every morning trying to keep up.
I watched her process. It was honest work, but the bottleneck was synthesis. She’d find good candidates, lose track of who I’d already seen, re-shortlist the same people from different searches, and miss the people who flipped Open To Work last Tuesday because she only scanned each weekend. By the time the shortlist landed on my desk, the freshness was gone.
So I opened Claude Code and described the system I actually wanted: every morning, scan LinkedIn for the five role families across Saigon + Hanoi (and later HCM expansion markets — Singapore, Shenzhen, Sydney), enrich each candidate, score them against the specific role + against GemCommerce’s hiring principles, and surface the top 10 per role in a sidebar she can act on. Plus — because I’d been asked the same JD question seven times in seven different DM threads — give every open role a public share-by-link JD page I can drop into a chat instead of writing it out again.
Three evenings later we had Talent Radar. This is the build journal — and a tour through what it surfaces about my own hiring funnel.
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