{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Internal Candidacy Stated in the Posting",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [],
    "content": "# Internal Candidacy Stated in the Posting\n\nWhere a formal internal candidacy exists against a requisition at the moment it is published, the posting says so and says what the external loop decides.\n\n### Expected Effects\n- M-005 stops being opaque at the gate it operates at: the composition of the slate is stated where the posting is, not at minute 41 of a final round\n- B-013 publishes one more field — whether the external loop runs against an internal candidacy already formally under consideration\n\n### Measurements\n- `slate_disclosure_rate`\n- `internal_fill_rate_on_posted_requisitions`\n- `external_rounds_per_internal_fill`",
    "id": "I-008",
    "type": "intervention",
    "summary": "Where a formal internal candidacy exists against a requisition at the moment it is published, the posting says so and says what the external loop decides.",
    "targets": [
      "M-005",
      "B-013"
    ],
    "actor": "employer-policy",
    "scope": "organizational",
    "cost": "medium",
    "evidence_level": "hypothesis",
    "expected_effects": [
      "M-005 stops being opaque at the gate it operates at: the composition of the slate is stated where the posting is, not at minute 41 of a final round",
      "B-013 publishes one more field — whether the external loop runs against an internal candidacy already formally under consideration"
    ],
    "measurements": [
      "slate_disclosure_rate",
      "internal_fill_rate_on_posted_requisitions",
      "external_rounds_per_internal_fill"
    ],
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "posting",
        "label": "The posting, with the slate in it",
        "subject": "Staff Engineer · Platform — status of the search",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "Requisition 4820, approved, level L5. One internal candidate has been under formal consideration since 2 March.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "text": "The external loop runs to four rounds and the decision compares the slate; it is neither a formality nor a search with no incumbent.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "If the internal candidacy is withdrawn, this line comes off and the posting is dated again.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "Nothing in the process changed. What changed is when the fact is available: on the posting, rather than as an aside in the last round."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "employer-policy",
        "sees": "A posting rule that applies to every requisition, and a proposed field stating what already stands behind one before it goes live.",
        "reads": "A published slate makes an internal candidacy visible to that employee's own team and to everyone who reads the posting; a rule that discloses for all requisitions cannot be switched off for one.",
        "does": "Defines when a candidacy counts as formal and therefore disclosable, and that definition is what the posting field is filled from."
      },
      {
        "actor": "hiring-manager",
        "sees": "Fewer external applications against a requisition carrying the line, and the same number of interview slots to fill.",
        "reads": "The comparison the loop exists for still needs a slate; a smaller external pool is the cost of the pool knowing what it is entering.",
        "does": "Runs the loop as posted, and where the external pool thins below what a comparison needs, asks whether the role should be posted externally at all."
      },
      {
        "actor": "candidate",
        "sees": "A posting stating that an internal candidacy exists, with a date on it, before any round is scheduled.",
        "reads": "The composition of the slate is stated rather than inferred, and the hours a four-round loop costs are weighed against it.",
        "does": "Applies or does not, and where they do, asks at the first screen what the internal candidate has already been observed doing."
      }
    ]
  }
}