{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Complete silence after submission",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
    ],
    "content": "# Complete silence after submission\n\nAfter the application is submitted, nothing arrives: no automated receipt, no acknowledgement, no rejection, no message from a recruiter.\n\n### Diagnostic Non-Inferences\n- Does not prove the application was reviewed by a human.\n- Does not prove the role was cancelled or already filled.",
    "aliases": [
      "A-001"
    ],
    "id": "obs.complete_silence_after_submission",
    "type": "observation",
    "summary": "After the application is submitted, nothing arrives: no automated receipt, no acknowledgement, no rejection, no message from a recruiter.",
    "stages": [
      "ingestion",
      "sourcing"
    ],
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "probes": [
      {
        "id": "PROBE-A-001-1",
        "action": "Check the email spam folder and the security quarantine for an automated acknowledgement from the ATS.",
        "expected_signal": "Shows whether the application was ingested and generated a confirmation ID.",
        "cost": "low",
        "outcomes": [
          {
            "id": "acknowledgement-in-quarantine",
            "label": "A dated automated acknowledgement carrying a confirmation ID is sitting in spam or in the security quarantine, filtered on the day of submission.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          },
          {
            "id": "nothing-from-the-sender",
            "label": "Neither folder holds anything from the employer or from its ATS domain; the only record of the submission is the confirmation screen the candidate saved.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          },
          {
            "id": "later-mail-only",
            "label": "Quarantine holds later automated mail against the same requisition — a status change, an expiry or a closure notice — but no acknowledgement from the day of submission.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          },
          {
            "id": "retention-window-closed",
            "label": "The check cannot be completed: quarantine retention has already rolled over, or the quarantine is held by the mail administrator, so nothing from that period is visible.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "ats",
        "label": "ATS status history",
        "context": "exported by the candidate on day 41",
        "lines": [
          {
            "at": "day 0, 18:22",
            "text": "Application received — Senior Backend Engineer",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "day 0, 18:22",
            "text": "Status: Under review",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "day 41, 09:00",
            "text": "Status: Under review",
            "tell": true
          }
        ],
        "reading": "The record shows one state change and then nothing. Silence here is the absence of an event, not an event with a hidden meaning."
      },
      {
        "kind": "chat",
        "label": "Follow-up message to the listed contact",
        "context": "two attempts, three weeks apart",
        "lines": [
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "day 14",
            "text": "Hello — I applied for the Senior Backend Engineer role on the 3rd and wanted to check the application went through. Happy to send anything else that helps.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "day 35",
            "text": "Following up on the note above. If the search has been paused or filled, that is completely fine — I would just like to close the loop on my side.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "day 41",
            "text": "— no reply —",
            "tell": true
          }
        ],
        "reading": "Two polite, dated attempts and no response. What is established is the absence of a reply, not a decision about the candidate."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "One status line on day 0, the same status line on day 41, and no reply to two dated follow-ups sent to the listed contact.",
        "reads": "The record establishes that no reply arrived. It does not carry a reading of the application, because no event after submission is in it.",
        "does": "Records the confirmation ID and both follow-up dates, checks spam and quarantine for the receipt, and keeps other processes running to their own timelines."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.recruiter",
        "sees": "The application sits in a queue whose depth exceeds the week's screening capacity. A follow-up sent to a listed address may not be attached to any requisition.",
        "reads": "An unread application is a position in a queue, not a decision that has been taken and withheld.",
        "does": "Works the requisitions closest to their fill date first, because time-to-fill is measured and time-to-clarity is not."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.ats_vendor",
        "sees": "A record whose status has not changed since ingestion, and an expiry timer running against the threshold the customer's configuration sets.",
        "reads": "An unreviewed record approaching its expiry threshold. Whether the profile was read, or was readable at all, is not a field the platform holds.",
        "does": "Expires the record at the threshold and sends whatever the customer's notification settings specify, which may be nothing."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Does not prove the application was reviewed by a human.",
      "Does not prove the role was cancelled or already filled."
    ]
  }
}