Case study
Linkupcareer.id
IT Staff
Apr 2025 — Jan 2026
Highlights
- 01
Managing HRM (OrangeHRM), LMS (Moodle), Internal Email, VPS, and other internal tools.
- 02
Conducted user interviews for internship candidates, while also evaluating each candidate's technical, communication, and management skills.
Linkupcareer.id, operated by PT Edukarir Global Nusantara, is an Indonesian career and education platform founded in 2024. It supports students, fresh graduates, and young professionals through mentoring, scholarships, career consultation, bootcamps, professional training, and job information.
Case Study
I joined Linkupcareer.id as an intern, then continued on a part-time basis after the internship ended.
The day-to-day work centered on a handful of systems. OrangeHRM handled HR administration — employee records, attendance, and leave requests. Moodle hosted the company’s learning materials. I also managed the internal email and the VPS that several of these tools ran on. None of it was glamorous, but if OrangeHRM went down during payroll week or Moodle broke the day before a bootcamp cohort started, people felt it immediately.
Most of the work was maintenance and configuration rather than building from scratch. I learned the tools deeply enough to troubleshoot them — reading OrangeHRM’s documentation, understanding Moodle’s plugin ecosystem.
Challenge
The part of the role I did not expect to find interesting was candidate evaluation. Linkupcareer.id runs internship programs, and part of my job was interviewing internship candidates. This time I sat on the other side of the table — the side that had interviewed me at Dibimbing.
I evaluated each candidate on three dimensions: technical skill, communication, and management ability. Technical was the easy part. Communication was harder — I had to separate nervousness from a genuine inability to explain one’s own work. Management was the most abstract: I looked for evidence that a candidate could break a task down, coordinate with others, and take ownership, not just answer technical questions correctly.
Sitting on the interviewer side taught me more about interviewing than any preparation I had done as a candidate. I started to understand why interviewers ask certain questions and what they are actually listening for.
End
This role was less about writing code and more about keeping systems alive and understanding people. It rounded out my perspective — I had seen the builder side and the intern side; now I saw the operations side and the evaluator side. The biggest lesson was that reliability and clear communication matter as much as the code itself.