{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Offer Closing & Contract Execution",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.job_seekers_beware_of_ghost_jobs_clarify_capital_survey_of_hiring_managers"
    ],
    "content": "# Offer Closing & Contract Execution\n\nFinal mutual execution of the formal employment agreement and start-date confirmation.\n\n### Pass Condition\nBoth parties sign offer contract and onboarding workflow is triggered.",
    "aliases": [
      "B-012"
    ],
    "id": "bar.offer_closing_contract_execution",
    "type": "barrier",
    "stage": "post-offer",
    "order": 14,
    "precedes": [],
    "description": "Final mutual execution of the formal employment agreement and start-date confirmation.",
    "pass_condition": "Both parties sign offer contract and onboarding workflow is triggered.",
    "evidence_level": "strongly_supported",
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "ats",
        "label": "Closing sequence",
        "lines": [
          {
            "at": "day 0",
            "text": "Contract issued for signature",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "day 1",
            "text": "Candidate signed",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "day 1",
            "text": "Countersignature pending",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "at": "day 4",
            "text": "Start date confirmed · onboarding workflow triggered",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "A signature from one side is not the gate. Until the countersignature lands the requisition is still open, and an open requisition is what a late freeze can still reach."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.employer_policy",
        "sees": "A requisition still open, a contract issued, and one signature returned. The countersignature is a step in an approval queue alongside the quarter's other commitments.",
        "reads": "Until the second signature lands, the headcount is a commitment that can still be paused; after it lands, it is a cost that cannot.",
        "does": "Countersigns and releases the start date, or holds the file while the quarter's funding is reconfirmed."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.recruiter",
        "sees": "The candidate's signature returned on day one and the countersignature line still empty. Whether the delay is a queue or a funding question is not in the recruiter's fields.",
        "reads": "The requisition is not closed and the fill is not counted; days of silence here are indistinguishable from a signature waiting its turn.",
        "does": "Chases the countersignature internally and calls the start date provisional in every message until the contract is executed by both sides."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "A contract signed and sent back, an unconfirmed start date, and days passing with no countersignature.",
        "reads": "From here the process reads as finished, though nothing takes effect until the second signature, and that step is not visible from outside.",
        "does": "Holds off on resigning or closing other processes until the countersigned copy arrives, and records the dates and the wording of what was promised."
      }
    ]
  }
}