{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Requisition Approval & Public Posting",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.job_seekers_beware_of_ghost_jobs_clarify_capital_survey_of_hiring_managers"
    ],
    "content": "# Requisition Approval & Public Posting\n\nThe gate that exists before any candidate does: headcount is authorised, the job description is written, and the requisition is published (or kept open) on careers pages and job boards.\n\n### Pass Condition\nAn approved requisition with a written job description is published against real, funded headcount.",
    "aliases": [
      "B-013"
    ],
    "id": "bar.requisition_approval_public_posting",
    "type": "barrier",
    "stage": "pre-posting",
    "order": 1,
    "precedes": [
      "bar.outbound_sourcing_talent_pool_contact",
      "bar.application_ingestion"
    ],
    "description": "The gate that exists before any candidate does: headcount is authorised, the job description is written, and the requisition is published (or kept open) on careers pages and job boards.",
    "pass_condition": "An approved requisition with a written job description is published against real, funded headcount.",
    "evidence_level": "strongly_supported",
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "note",
        "label": "What was approved before anyone applied",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "Headcount: 1 · Funded from: platform budget, FY approved · Level: L4 · Band: 68–79k",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Job description drafted by the hiring manager, edited by recruiting, published unchanged.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Requirements list carried over from the previous L5 search for the same team.",
            "tell": true
          }
        ],
        "reading": "This gate closes before the first candidate exists, and it fixes the level, the band and the requirements that everyone downstream will be measured against."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.employer_policy",
        "sees": "A headcount request, a budget line, a level and a band. No candidate exists at this gate, so none is in the file.",
        "reads": "A funded requisition is an option rather than a spend: it can be published, paused or carried into the next quarter without a new approval.",
        "does": "Fixes the band, the level and whether the role must be posted externally at all, and hands the requisition down as fields the rest of the funnel treats as given."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.hiring_manager",
        "sees": "The requisition form: a title, a level the grid allows, and a requirements list that can be carried over from the last search for this team.",
        "reads": "The description is the one step where the bar is set in advance; everything after it is judging arrivals against a list already published.",
        "does": "Writes the requirements into the fields the form has; what the form has no field for stays unwritten."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "A published posting with a date on it. Whether the headcount behind it is funded, and at what level the assessment will run, are not part of what is published.",
        "reads": "A live posting reads as a live search, and the requirements list reads as the bar.",
        "does": "Applies against the list as published, and calibrates the ask to a level that was fixed before the posting went up."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.public_policy_and_industry_standards",
        "sees": "The published posting, which is the only artefact of this gate that exists outside the company.",
        "reads": "The posting is the enforceable surface: what it must state is reachable by rule, what stands behind it is not.",
        "does": "Requires the band in the posting where transparency rules apply, and leaves the approved level and the funding status outside what any disclosure rule reaches."
      }
    ]
  }
}