{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Recruiter Volume & Quota Incentive Distortion",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture",
      "evidence.applications_per_opening_on_a_national_it_job_board_dou",
      "evidence.whether_an_application_was_assessed_at_all_is_defined_in_regulation_41_cfr_60_1_3"
    ],
    "content": "# Recruiter Volume & Quota Incentive Distortion\n\nApplicant volume (500+ per req) runs past the screening hours available; profiles are read at the speed of the queue and matched against the pattern the requisition was described with.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `recruiter`\n- **Nature:** `incentive`\n- **Removability:** `intermediary`\n\n### Causal Relations\n- Amplifies `mech.interview_resource_scheduling_saturation` — Interview Resource & Scheduling Saturation\n- Masks `mech.automated_keyword_qualification_filter` — Automated Keyword / Qualification Filter\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Does not mean the recruiter is individually negligent; the capacity mismatch is structural.",
    "aliases": [
      "M-009"
    ],
    "id": "mech.recruiter_volume_quota_incentive_distortion",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "Applicant volume (500+ per req) runs past the screening hours available; profiles are read at the speed of the queue and matched against the pattern the requisition was described with.",
    "operates_at": [
      "bar.inbound_screening_triage",
      "bar.recruiter_screening_call"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "obs.complete_silence_after_submission",
        "fidelity": "void",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "ingestion"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "obs.unsolicited_recruiter_outreach_followed_by_ghosting",
        "fidelity": "noise",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "recruiter"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "recruiter",
      "nature": "incentive",
      "visibility": "inferable",
      "removability": "intermediary"
    },
    "amplifies": [
      "mech.interview_resource_scheduling_saturation"
    ],
    "masks": [
      "mech.automated_keyword_qualification_filter"
    ],
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "honest_baseline": false,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "ats",
        "label": "The queue the screen ran against",
        "context": "one requisition, one week",
        "lines": [
          {
            "at": "week 1",
            "text": "Applications received: 640",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "week 1",
            "text": "Recruiter screening capacity this week: 40",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "week 1",
            "text": "Median time spent per profile: 7 seconds",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "text": "Profiles advanced: 11",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "Seven seconds is not a judgement of a career. It is what a queue of 640 does to attention, whoever is holding it."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.recruiter",
        "sees": "The count of open requisitions, the inbound volume against them, and the screening hours available this week. The three numbers do not reconcile.",
        "reads": "The time a profile receives is set by the length of the queue rather than by the profile. Throughput and conversion are measured; time-to-clarity is not a field in the report.",
        "does": "Advances the profiles that match the pattern the requisition was described with, and the rest of the queue stays unopened. Nothing is sent about a profile that was never opened."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "Nothing after submission, or an outreach that opens a conversation and then stops.",
        "reads": "Silence has no field to read. An application that was never opened and one that was read and declined produce the same inbox.",
        "does": "Records the submission date and the date of the last message, and keeps other processes running rather than waiting on the queue."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.ats_vendor",
        "sees": "Records that are created and never opened, and the age of each one against an expiry threshold that ships enabled.",
        "reads": "An unreviewed application at the threshold is a housekeeping state, not a decision. Whether the queue was longer than the hours available is not a value in the record.",
        "does": "Closes the record at the configured age and sends whatever the customer's template sends at that event."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Does not mean the recruiter is individually negligent; the capacity mismatch is structural."
    ],
    "agency_zones": {
      "recruiter": "medium",
      "candidate": "low",
      "ats-vendor": "high"
    }
  }
}