{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Domain Specificity Over-Weighting",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.employment_interview_reliability_new_meta_analytic_estimates_by_structure_and_format"
    ],
    "content": "# Domain Specificity Over-Weighting\n\nThe interviewer holds experience in one exact vertical — adtech, crypto, a named payment processor — as a requirement, ahead of transferable systems depth.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `hiring-manager`\n- **Nature:** `bias`\n- **Removability:** `intermediary`\n\n### Causal Relations\n- Amplifies `mech.hidden_evaluation_rubric_or_undisclosed_priority` — Hidden Evaluation Rubric or Undisclosed Priority\n- Masks `mech.genuine_technical_skill_shortfall` — Genuine Technical Skill Shortfall\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Transferable general engineering skills are not disproven by lack of specific proprietary protocol knowledge.",
    "aliases": [
      "M-018"
    ],
    "id": "mech.domain_specificity_over_weighting",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "The interviewer holds experience in one exact vertical — adtech, crypto, a named payment processor — as a requirement, ahead of transferable systems depth.",
    "operates_at": [
      "bar.recruiter_screening_call",
      "bar.hiring_manager_in_depth_review"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "obs.rejection_naming_a_specific_industry_sector_as_required",
        "fidelity": "direct",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [],
        "observed_at": [
          "recruiter"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "obs.generic_closer_alignment_rejection_template",
        "fidelity": "euphemism",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "recruiter"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "obs.explicit_feedback_citing_skill_depth_shortfall",
        "fidelity": "direct",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.employment_interview_reliability_new_meta_analytic_estimates_by_structure_and_format"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "team"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "hiring-manager",
      "nature": "bias",
      "visibility": "inferable",
      "removability": "intermediary"
    },
    "amplifies": [
      "mech.hidden_evaluation_rubric_or_undisclosed_priority"
    ],
    "masks": [
      "mech.genuine_technical_skill_shortfall"
    ],
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "honest_baseline": false,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "transcript",
        "label": "Where the round turned",
        "context": "minute 12",
        "lines": [
          {
            "speaker": "Interviewer",
            "at": "12:03",
            "text": "You have built settlement systems, but not in cards specifically?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "12:09",
            "text": "Not cards. Same problem shape though — idempotency, reconciliation, chargeback-equivalent reversals.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Interviewer",
            "at": "12:19",
            "text": "We really need someone who has lived in card rails. The scheme rules are their own world.",
            "tell": true
          }
        ],
        "reading": "Transferable depth was heard and set aside for vertical familiarity. That is a legitimate preference and a narrow one; the rejection is about the filter, not the engineering."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.hiring_manager",
        "sees": "A gap in the team's coverage of a specific set of rules or protocols, and a candidate whose depth is in an adjacent shape of the same problem.",
        "reads": "Transferable depth plus a ramp-up the team pays for while it is already short-handed. A miss on the vertical is visible after the hire and has a name on it.",
        "does": "Holds the vertical as a requirement rather than a preference, and the round turns on it whatever the rest of the panel recorded."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "A technical conversation that goes well until a question about a specific vertical, then a rejection worded as closer alignment.",
        "reads": "The engineering was heard and the vertical decided it, or the engineering was the reason and the vertical is the wording. The email carries both.",
        "does": "Records where in the round the turn happened, and reads the next posting's domain nouns as requirements rather than as context."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.recruiter",
        "sees": "A brief with a vertical named in it, and panels returning notes that cite the vertical rather than the technical rubric.",
        "reads": "A requirement that narrows the pool while time-to-fill keeps counting, and one the hiring manager holds rather than the recruiter.",
        "does": "Screens on the vertical, because a shortlist without it comes back from the hiring manager, and sends the standard wording to the rest."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.ats_vendor",
        "sees": "A requirement entered as a domain term, and a ranking model for which that term is a feature like any other.",
        "reads": "A configured preference, scored as specified. The platform has nothing that represents an adjacent domain solving the same problem.",
        "does": "Ranks and filters on the term as entered, and profiles whose depth is described in other nouns fall below the review threshold."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Transferable general engineering skills are not disproven by lack of specific proprietary protocol knowledge."
    ],
    "agency_zones": {
      "hiring-manager": "medium",
      "candidate": "low",
      "recruiter": "low",
      "ats-vendor": "low"
    }
  }
}