{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Candidate ATS Parser Conformance Test Utility",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
    ],
    "content": "# Candidate ATS Parser Conformance Test Utility\n\nProvide candidates with an open-source parsing validation tool to verify CV machine-readability before submission.\n\n### Expected Effects\n- The candidate can see the extraction before submitting, so an unreadable file is distinguishable from a thin one\n- mech.ats_parser_extraction_failure moves from invisible to checkable on the candidate's side of the line\n\n### Measurements\n- `parser_extraction_error_rate`\n- `ingestion_pass_rate`",
    "aliases": [
      "I-005"
    ],
    "id": "int.candidate_ats_parser_conformance_test_utility",
    "type": "intervention",
    "summary": "Provide candidates with an open-source parsing validation tool to verify CV machine-readability before submission.",
    "targets": [
      "mech.ats_parser_extraction_failure",
      "bar.automated_filter_parser_threshold",
      "pat.experience_age_impossibility"
    ],
    "actor": "candidate-action",
    "scope": "individual",
    "cost": "low",
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "expected_effects": [
      "The candidate can see the extraction before submitting, so an unreadable file is distinguishable from a thin one",
      "mech.ats_parser_extraction_failure moves from invisible to checkable on the candidate's side of the line"
    ],
    "measurements": [
      "parser_extraction_error_rate",
      "ingestion_pass_rate"
    ],
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "note",
        "label": "Tool output, before submitting",
        "subject": "hoba-parse-check · cv.pdf",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "Extraction score: 41/100",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Work experience entries recovered: 0 of 5 — two-column layout detected",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "text": "Skills recovered: 0 of 24 — rendered inside a graphic",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Suggested: single-column export, text-based headings, skills as plain text.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Re-check after changes: extraction score 93/100, 5 of 5 entries, 24 of 24 skills.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "This is the one intervention on the candidate side of the line. Seeing what the parser sees turns an invisible failure into a fixable file."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "An extraction report against their own file: how many work entries and skills a parser recovers, and which layout choice dropped them.",
        "reads": "The failure was in the document rather than in the record, and it is fixable before submission rather than inferable afterwards.",
        "does": "Re-exports single-column with text headings, re-checks, and submits the version that survives extraction."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.recruiter",
        "sees": "A complete profile in the queue: work history in fields, skills in fields, orderable against the rest.",
        "reads": "A profile with nothing in the experience field and a profile whose experience did not extract read identically from here; this removes one of the two before it arrives.",
        "does": "Screens on the content, and in the applications that still arrive empty, an unreadable file and a thin record remain indistinguishable."
      }
    ]
  }
}