{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Pre-Selected Internal Candidate",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.job_seekers_beware_of_ghost_jobs_clarify_capital_survey_of_hiring_managers",
      "evidence.openings_that_exist_because_a_rule_requires_them_ukraine_civil_service_competitions"
    ],
    "content": "# Pre-Selected Internal Candidate\n\nRequisition was publicly advertised to satisfy corporate policy or legal compliance while an internal employee was already earmarked for the role.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `policy`\n- **Nature:** `incentive`\n- **Removability:** `none`\n\n### Causal Relations\n- Masks `mech.stronger_competing_candidate_in_final_cohort` — Stronger Competing Candidate in Final Cohort\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Cannot be asserted as fact without internal hiring log confirmation.",
    "aliases": [
      "M-005"
    ],
    "id": "mech.pre_selected_internal_candidate",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "Requisition was publicly advertised to satisfy corporate policy or legal compliance while an internal employee was already earmarked for the role.",
    "operates_at": [
      "bar.requisition_approval_public_posting",
      "bar.application_ingestion",
      "bar.inbound_screening_triage",
      "bar.hiring_manager_in_depth_review"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "obs.rejection_naming_an_internal_hire_as_the_outcome",
        "fidelity": "direct",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [],
        "observed_at": [
          "offer"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "obs.generic_closer_alignment_rejection_template",
        "fidelity": "euphemism",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.job_seekers_beware_of_ghost_jobs_clarify_capital_survey_of_hiring_managers"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "screening"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "obs.position_closed_after_final_interview_without_hire",
        "fidelity": "euphemism",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.job_seekers_beware_of_ghost_jobs_clarify_capital_survey_of_hiring_managers"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "offer"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "policy",
      "nature": "incentive",
      "visibility": "opaque",
      "removability": "none"
    },
    "amplifies": [],
    "masks": [
      "mech.stronger_competing_candidate_in_final_cohort"
    ],
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "honest_baseline": false,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "transcript",
        "label": "Final round, an aside",
        "context": "minute 41",
        "lines": [
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "41:02",
            "text": "How many people are you seeing for this?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Hiring manager",
            "at": "41:11",
            "text": "You are the third external. There is also someone internal who has been covering part of the scope since spring.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "41:26",
            "text": "Understood. Is that a formal candidacy?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Hiring manager",
            "at": "41:31",
            "text": "It is. We post externally regardless — that is policy.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "Nothing improper is described. The posting is real, the process is real, and the odds were set before the first external application arrived."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.employer_policy",
        "sees": "A funded requisition, and a posting rule that applies to every requisition regardless of who already works inside the scope.",
        "reads": "Consistency across hires is what makes a process defensible. A rule that holds for all requisitions cannot be switched off for one.",
        "does": "Publishes externally as the rule requires. What happens to the external pipeline afterwards is not reported back to this layer."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.hiring_manager",
        "sees": "Someone already covering part of the scope, and a slate of external candidates each assessed inside the hours the loop allows.",
        "reads": "Work already observed and work inferred from an interview are not the same evidence. Only one person on the slate has been watched doing the work itself.",
        "does": "Runs the external loop as posted and assesses each candidate against a bar the internal work already meets."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "A live posting, scheduled rounds, and interviewers who prepare. The composition of the slate is not stated.",
        "reads": "Nothing in the process distinguishes it from one that is open. Whether a requisition is already promised internally is not a field the candidate is shown.",
        "does": "Can ask at the final round how many are being seen and whether any are internal. That answer is available on request and absent without one."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Cannot be asserted as fact without internal hiring log confirmation."
    ],
    "agency_zones": {
      "employer-policy": "high",
      "hiring-manager": "low",
      "candidate": "low"
    }
  }
}