{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "ATS Parser Extraction Failure",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
    ],
    "content": "# ATS Parser Extraction Failure\n\nMulti-column formatting, graphics, custom fonts, or unsupported document layouts cause ATS parser to corrupt or omit critical work history.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `system`\n- **Nature:** `noise`\n- **Removability:** `candidate`\n\n### Causal Relations\n- Amplifies `mech.automated_keyword_qualification_filter` — Automated Keyword / Qualification Filter\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Does not imply human recruiter evaluated and disliked candidate experience.",
    "aliases": [
      "M-003"
    ],
    "id": "mech.ats_parser_extraction_failure",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "Multi-column formatting, graphics, custom fonts, or unsupported document layouts cause ATS parser to corrupt or omit critical work history.",
    "operates_at": [
      "bar.application_ingestion",
      "bar.automated_filter_parser_threshold"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "obs.complete_silence_after_submission",
        "fidelity": "void",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "ingestion"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "obs.rejection_within_minutes_of_application_submission",
        "fidelity": "direct",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "ingestion"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "system",
      "nature": "noise",
      "visibility": "inferable",
      "removability": "candidate"
    },
    "amplifies": [
      "mech.automated_keyword_qualification_filter"
    ],
    "masks": [],
    "evidence_level": "proven",
    "honest_baseline": false,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "ats",
        "label": "Parsed profile, as the ATS stored it",
        "context": "the same CV that renders correctly in a PDF reader",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "Name: parsed · Email: parsed · Phone: parsed",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Work experience: 0 entries",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "text": "Skills: 0 entries",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Raw text captured: 340 characters of a 4,100-character document",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Ranking score: 12/100 — insufficient experience",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "The document was not read and rejected; it was not read. A two-column layout and a graphic header are enough to produce this."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "A document that opens correctly in a reader, and either a rejection soon after submission or no reply at all.",
        "reads": "The stored profile is not shown back, so this is inferable from the timing and from nothing else.",
        "does": "Resubmits in a single-column form with a text layer, wherever a second application is accepted. This is the branch the candidate can act on without anyone's cooperation."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.recruiter",
        "sees": "A queue ordered by score, longer than the number of screens that fit in the week.",
        "reads": "A profile below the line reads as a profile that did not qualify. The document behind the score is not opened to check which it is.",
        "does": "Works down the ranked list from the top. The list carries no marker separating unread from unqualified, so the positions below the line stay closed."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Does not imply human recruiter evaluated and disliked candidate experience."
    ],
    "agency_zones": {
      "candidate": "high",
      "recruiter": "low",
      "ats-vendor": "medium"
    }
  }
}