Actors
The seven positions the funnel is made of
The seven structural positions within the hiring ecosystem: what each actor decides, what is structurally invisible to them, their incentive metrics, and their capacity for intervention.
ATS vendoractor.ats_vendor6 · What this position could do22 · Entries this position can see
The platform the funnel runs inside. Writes no policy and decides no hire, yet its defaults decide what a great many people ever see.
Candidateactor.candidate6 · What this position could do95 · Entries this position can see
The person applying. The only party in the funnel who sees the whole of their own process and almost none of anyone else's.
Clientactor.client3 · What this position could do3 · Entries this position can see
The party paying for the seat when the company is not its own customer. Signs the contract the requisition depends on, and often holds a gate the candidate never sees named.
Employer policyactor.employer_policy5 · What this position could do46 · Entries this position can see
Finance, leadership and the people function: the layer that authorises headcount, fixes bands and writes the rules the funnel executes. Never meets a candidate.
Hiring manageractor.hiring_manager6 · What this position could do50 · Entries this position can see
The person the role reports to, and the panel they convene. Sets the bar, owns the outcome, and is doing this alongside the work the role exists to absorb.
Public policy and industry standardsactor.public_policy_and_industry_standards6 · What this position could do11 · Entries this position can see
Regulators, labour law, and the conventions the market copies from itself. Sets the outer bounds and moves on a timescale no individual process can wait for.
Recruiteractor.recruiter6 · What this position could do81 · Entries this position can see
The function that moves people through the funnel. Holds the most information about the process and the least authority over its outcome.