For recruiters and staffing agencies in Japan
From creating a job to applications, the AI interview and the candidate report. An AI hiring platform that joins up the first round.
How hiring runs
Say what the interview is for; the model proposes criteria and questions from the posting
A public application link, one per job
Applications and CVs in one list; you choose who to interview
The interview link goes to the candidates you chose
Answers, scores and the points to confirm, set out
A person meets the people worth meeting
Hitoshiru joins up everything between an application arriving and deciding who is worth meeting.
The candidate report
A score and its rationale per criterion, the strengths and what to confirm, and the words each score rests on. Below is a sample with the same structure as a real report.
Three years at a special nursing home, with hands-on care and night shifts, and examples given concretely throughout. What stands out is being able to describe a mistake and the correction that followed.
Strengths
Areas to improve
Bar length is the score, thickness is the weight. The line is the median for this role.
Weight 22% · role median 2
Weight 33% · role median 1.5
Weight 22% · role median 1.5
Weight 22% · role median 1
Japanese proficiency (estimated from the conversation)
JLPT does not test speaking, so this is shown as an equivalent band.
CEFR (speaking)
JLPT equivalent
N2–N1 equivalent
Confidence
Medium
Assessed from 1 min 55 s of speech. Confidence is Medium because there was not much of it.
Quoted evidence — 12:04
「最初は止めようとしましたが、余計に興奮させてしまって。それで先輩に相談したら、一緒に歩いてみたらどうかと言われました。」
“At first I tried to stop her, but that only agitated her more. So I asked a senior colleague, who suggested walking with her instead.”
A recruiter can overwrite any score with a reason. The rubric version, the prompt-pack hash and the model version are written to that interview's audit log.
The candidate's own words, not a paraphrase. The candidate is invented.
The final call is a person's
Reason: confirmed on the call how the incident at the previous employer was handled.
A score can be overwritten with a reason. The AI's number stays, and the author and the reason are written to the audit log.
A recruiter's time
Today
With Hitoshiru
A recruiter's hours, spent on the people worth meeting.
Not fewer interviews — the interviews a person should be doing. Hitoshiru covers the work up to deciding whom to meet.
How we think about it
Who checked what, and what they decided on, can be traced afterwards. Three points a buyer can weigh before their legal review has finished.
The promise
What it rests on
ADR-0031
Only the questions a recruiter ticks are added to a job, and they are used only once the job is published. The follow-up questions the AI writes from the candidate's answers during the interview are checked by a separate AI model before they reach the candidate, against the eleven of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's 14 topics that concern what is asked; any that matches is discarded.
Specification (report)
Every criterion's score carries the candidate's own words, unedited. The full transcript and the audio, the rubric version and the model version, and any override are kept per interview.
ADR-0014
Hitoshiru never decides an outcome. A score can be overwritten with a reason, and the model's original number, the override, the reason and its author are written to the audit log.
No facial or emotion analysis. The camera is recorded for your team, and the AI evaluates the voice alone.
When the hire is international
Japanese for Japanese candidates; for candidates from overseas, Japanese or English, whichever they speak more easily. The interview language is set per job — Japanese, English, or both, in which case the candidate chooses at the start. Either way the recruiter reads a Japanese report, and when the interview was in English the quoted evidence carries both the original words and the Japanese.
Japanese proficiency (optional)
On interviews conducted in Japanese
Where Japanese ability itself matters, add the assessment to the screening. Not a separate test — read from the conversation, as a band like N2–N1 equivalent, with a confidence level and the speech it rests on.
Photographs are illustrative.
For staffing agencies
The candidate call, the notes, the internal share, the reasons for the referral. One account runs screening for many client companies, and candidates see your logo and your colours on every screen.
Photographs are illustrative.
Common questions
An AI recruiting platform for the first stage of hiring. Job creation, application intake, applicant review, the AI interview and the candidate report, all in one console. The AI proposes interview questions, a recruiter reviews and edits them, and the chosen candidates take an AI interview. Candidates answer by voice in a phone browser; the recruiter reads a report with a score and rationale per criterion, the quoted evidence, and the full transcript and audio.
No. Hitoshiru is designed never to decide an outcome. The AI proposes questions, conducts the interview, organises documents and answers, and produces a score per criterion. Each score carries the utterance behind it, and a recruiter can overwrite any score with a reason. Whom to meet and whom to hire remain a person's decisions, as they always were.
Yes. For mid-career and graduate hiring alike, the interview runs in Japanese and the report arrives in Japanese. Questions are set per job to fit the role and the profile sought, so it serves first-round screening across sales, engineering, back-office and other roles.
The interview language is set per job — Japanese, English, or both, in which case the candidate chooses the one they speak most easily. An interview conducted in English still arrives as a Japanese report, with the quoted evidence in the original language and in Japanese. On a Japanese-language interview, an optional proficiency assessment reads the candidate's Japanese from the conversation rather than from a separate test.
The rest are on the FAQ.
Would you like to see a first round run end to end?
About thirty minutes. Bring a job posting and we will draft its criteria on the call.
Thank you.
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