{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Multiple interview reschedulings or interviewer no-show",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
    ],
    "content": "# Multiple interview reschedulings or interviewer no-show\n\nInterviews are postponed repeatedly or moved at short notice, or the interviewer does not join the call at the scheduled time.\n\n### Diagnostic Non-Inferences\n- Does not imply candidate rejection; frequently reflects interviewer calendar congestion or emergency incidents.",
    "aliases": [
      "A-007"
    ],
    "id": "obs.multiple_interview_reschedulings_or_interviewer_no_show",
    "type": "observation",
    "summary": "Interviews are postponed repeatedly or moved at short notice, or the interviewer does not join the call at the scheduled time.",
    "stages": [
      "recruiter",
      "technical",
      "team"
    ],
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "probes": [
      {
        "id": "PROBE-A-007-1",
        "action": "Offer a set of concrete times you are free, and confirm the contact details 2 hours before the call.",
        "expected_signal": "Minimises scheduling friction and shows how quickly the recruiter answers.",
        "cost": "low",
        "outcomes": [
          {
            "id": "slot-held",
            "label": "One of the offered times is confirmed, the two-hour check is answered, and the interview runs at that time.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          },
          {
            "id": "confirmed-then-moved",
            "label": "A time is confirmed and then withdrawn by the organiser again, with a replacement date offered in the same message.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          },
          {
            "id": "no-one-joins",
            "label": "The time stands, the two-hour check goes unanswered, and no one joins the call at that time.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          },
          {
            "id": "no-reply",
            "label": "The availability message goes unanswered and no new date arrives.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "chat",
        "label": "Scheduling thread",
        "context": "same interview, four dates",
        "lines": [
          {
            "speaker": "Recruiter",
            "at": "week 2",
            "text": "Tuesday 14:00 works for the panel — sending the invite now.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Recruiter",
            "at": "week 2",
            "text": "Apologies, the interviewer has a conflict. Can we move to Thursday same time?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Recruiter",
            "at": "week 3",
            "text": "Sorry to do this again — Thursday is out. Would Monday work?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Recruiter",
            "at": "week 4",
            "text": "Something urgent came up on the team. I will come back to you with new slots.",
            "tell": true
          }
        ],
        "reading": "Four moves, no interview. Record the dates: a pattern of postponement is evidence about the process, not about the candidate."
      },
      {
        "kind": "ats",
        "label": "Calendar record",
        "lines": [
          {
            "at": "week 2, Tue",
            "text": "Invite sent — Technical panel",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "week 2, Tue",
            "text": "Cancelled by organiser",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "week 3, Mon",
            "text": "Invite sent — Technical panel",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "week 4",
            "text": "Cancelled by organiser · no replacement issued",
            "tell": true
          }
        ],
        "reading": "Every cancellation came from the same side. That asymmetry is the observable part."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "Four dates for one interview, invitations withdrawn by the organiser each time, and a fourth message with no replacement slot in it.",
        "reads": "Something on the other side is moving, and which thing it is — a calendar, a panel, a requisition — is not in any message received.",
        "does": "Records the dates and the wording, keeps other processes open, and asks for a date rather than for a reason."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.recruiter",
        "sees": "Declines coming back from the panel's calendar, and no instruction about whether the search itself has changed.",
        "reads": "A slot to reissue. Whether the requisition is still funded is not visible from the scheduling view.",
        "does": "Sends new times and keeps the candidate in the pipeline; no cause arrives with the decline, so none travels onward."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.hiring_manager",
        "sees": "One conflict on one morning, resolved by moving one invitation. The series exists in the candidate's inbox, not in the panel's calendar.",
        "reads": "A week in which delivery and the loop need the same hours, and the loop is the part that can be moved.",
        "does": "Releases the slot to the work the role exists to absorb and asks for a new time, each move decided on its own."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Does not imply candidate rejection; frequently reflects interviewer calendar congestion or emergency incidents."
    ]
  }
}