---
id: B-013
type: barrier
title: "Requisition Approval & Public Posting"
lang: en
registry: 2026.08.2
canonical: https://hoba.work/barriers/B-013
json: https://hoba.work/api/v1/barriers/B-013.json
---

# Requisition Approval & Public Posting

The gate that exists before any candidate does: headcount is authorized, the job description is written, and the requisition is published (or quietly kept open) on careers pages and job boards.

> **On the canonical path** — [Published with its terms on the page](https://hoba.work/process#WF-003-published)
>
> The posting states the compensation band, the location rules, the stages the process has and roughly how long each takes. It comes down when the search ends.
>
> This entry is one of the ways that commitment stops being kept.

## At a glance

- Stage: Before posting
- Step in the funnel: #1
- Evidence: established

## Passing condition

An approved requisition with a written job description is published against real, funded headcount.

## What it looks like

Composite excerpts, written to be typical rather than copied. No particular message, company or person is quoted here.

**What was approved before anyone applied** — *reconstruction*

```
  Headcount: 1 · Funded from: platform budget, FY approved · Level: L4 · Band: 68–79k
  Job description drafted by the hiring manager, edited by recruiting, published unchanged.
> Requirements list carried over from the previous L5 search for the same team.
```

*What to notice* This gate closes before the first candidate exists, and it fixes the level, the band and the requirements that everyone downstream will be measured against.

## From each side

The same entry from inside each position that meets it: what reaches them, what it means from there, and what happens next given what they control.

### Employer policy

- **What reaches them:** A headcount request, a budget line, a level and a band. No candidate exists at this gate, so none is in the file.
- **What it means from there:** A funded requisition is an option rather than a spend: it can be published, paused or carried into the next quarter without a new approval.
- **What happens next:** Fixes the band, the level and whether the role must be posted externally at all, and hands the requisition down as fields the rest of the funnel treats as given.

### Hiring manager

- **What reaches them:** The requisition form: a title, a level the grid allows, and a requirements list that can be carried over from the last search for this team.
- **What it means from there:** The description is the one step where the bar is set in advance; everything after it is judging arrivals against a list already published.
- **What happens next:** Writes the requirements into the fields the form has; what the form has no field for stays unwritten.

### Candidate

- **What reaches them:** A published posting with a date on it. Whether the headcount behind it is funded, and at what level the assessment will run, are not part of what is published.
- **What it means from there:** A live posting reads as a live search, and the requirements list reads as the bar.
- **What happens next:** Applies against the list as published, and calibrates the ask to a level that was fixed before the posting went up.

### Public policy and industry standards

- **What reaches them:** The published posting, which is the only artefact of this gate that exists outside the company.
- **What it means from there:** The posting is the enforceable surface: what it must state is reachable by rule, what stands behind it is not.
- **What happens next:** Requires the band in the posting where transparency rules apply, and leaves the approved level and the funding status outside what any disclosure rule reaches.

## Related entries

- precedes — [B-014](https://hoba.work/barriers/B-014) — Outbound Sourcing & Talent Pool Contact
- precedes — [B-001](https://hoba.work/barriers/B-001) — Application Ingestion

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