{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Stale or Orphaned Job Requisition",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.job_seekers_beware_of_ghost_jobs_clarify_capital_survey_of_hiring_managers"
    ],
    "content": "# Stale or Orphaned Job Requisition\n\nJob posting remains active on careers page and aggregator portals despite the team having ceased active hiring or closed headcount.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `system`\n- **Nature:** `void`\n- **Removability:** `none`\n\n### Causal Relations\n- Amplifies `mech.automated_application_expiration_timeout` — Automated Application Expiration Timeout\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Application silence does not reflect candidate suitability.",
    "aliases": [
      "M-006"
    ],
    "id": "mech.stale_or_orphaned_job_requisition",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "Job posting remains active on careers page and aggregator portals despite the team having ceased active hiring or closed headcount.",
    "operates_at": [
      "bar.requisition_approval_public_posting",
      "bar.application_ingestion",
      "bar.automated_filter_parser_threshold",
      "bar.inbound_screening_triage"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "obs.complete_silence_after_submission",
        "fidelity": "void",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.job_seekers_beware_of_ghost_jobs_clarify_capital_survey_of_hiring_managers"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "ingestion"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "obs.materially_similar_role_reposted_shortly_after_rejection",
        "fidelity": "noise",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.job_seekers_beware_of_ghost_jobs_clarify_capital_survey_of_hiring_managers"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "screening"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "system",
      "nature": "void",
      "visibility": "opaque",
      "removability": "none"
    },
    "amplifies": [
      "mech.automated_application_expiration_timeout"
    ],
    "masks": [],
    "evidence_level": "strongly_supported",
    "honest_baseline": false,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "chat",
        "label": "Asking whether the role is alive",
        "lines": [
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "day 0",
            "text": "I applied for this in January and again in March — is the posting current?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Recruiter",
            "at": "day 2",
            "text": "Let me check. That team stopped hiring in December; the listing should have come down. I will get it removed.",
            "tell": true
          }
        ],
        "reading": "The posting was not bait and it was not a decision. It was a record nobody owned, which is a different thing to be angry at."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.employer_policy",
        "sees": "A requisition moved to paused or unfunded in the budget ledger.",
        "reads": "Pausing an approved requisition keeps the option to restart it, and the approval costs nothing while it sits.",
        "does": "Records the change where budgets are recorded. Taking a public listing down is a separate action in a separate system, and the budget decision does not trigger it."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.ats_vendor",
        "sees": "A posting record in an active state, and applications arriving against it.",
        "reads": "The state of the record is a customer-owned field. Nothing distinguishes a running search from a record no one has closed.",
        "does": "Keeps rendering and syndicating the posting and accepting applications, and closes the unreviewed ones when the default expiry period runs out."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.recruiter",
        "sees": "The requisition list as the platform holds it, in which a listing no longer being worked looks like any other.",
        "reads": "Whether a search is still running is a fact held by the team that stopped, not by the funnel.",
        "does": "Answers directly and has the listing removed once the question arrives. A requisition with no search behind it does not enter time-to-fill, which is what is counted."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "A posting visible on the careers page and on aggregators, and no reply after submission.",
        "reads": "Silence is the same artifact whether a record was left open or an application was read and set aside.",
        "does": "Asks directly whether the posting is current, which is the only channel that returns the state of the record, and keeps the date of each submission."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Application silence does not reflect candidate suitability."
    ],
    "agency_zones": {
      "employer-policy": "high",
      "ats-vendor": "medium",
      "recruiter": "low",
      "candidate": "low"
    }
  }
}