- What reaches them
- A curated batch of candidate profiles forwarded by vendors, evaluated against internal delivery timelines.
- What it means from there
- Profiles are supplier proposals; reviewing them carries no direct employment commitment.
- What happens next
- Selects preferred profiles for a client interview or rejects without detailed feedback.
Client Profile Approval and Client Interview
The candidate profile is submitted to the end client for review, followed by a client-side interview round.
Barrier B-015 Stage: Client approval Step in the funnel: #15 Evidence: established
On the canonical path
One panel, one question each, one decision rule — Every interviewer knows what they are measuring and that nobody else is measuring it. The rule that turns their scores into a decision is agreed before the first conversation, and no round is added after the process has started.
This entry is one of the ways that commitment stops being kept.
What it looks like
Composite excerpts, written to be typical rather than copied. No particular message, company or person is quoted here.
- day 14 Vendor screen & tech assessment: passed
- day 16 Profile submitted to client for approval
- day 28 Client interview scheduled
What to notice: The candidate remains in an external waiting state where decision authority sits with a party not named on the requisition.
Barriers before this one
This is the first barrier in the funnel.
Barriers after this one
This is the last barrier in the funnel.
Mechanisms operating at this barrier (0)
Interventions targeting this barrier
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.
- What reaches them
- A candidate who passed vendor screening, awaiting feedback from the client account manager.
- What it means from there
- Time-to-feedback is dictated by the client; the vendor cannot advance the candidate unilaterally.
- What happens next
- Follows up with the client contact while keeping the candidate warm with generic holding updates.
- What reaches them
- An extended delay after vendor interviews, followed by an additional external round.
- What it means from there
- The interview process includes an unannounced external decision gate.
- What happens next
- Prepares for a client interview whose evaluation criteria and contractual context are opaque.
- What reaches them
- Commercial margin targets dependent on placing candidate billable hours on the client contract.
- What it means from there
- Candidate placement directly realizes project revenue once client sign-off is secured.
- What happens next
- Monitors client approval rates and manages bench fallback options.
ATS vendorNot visible from here
From this position the entry is not visible. That is not a gap in the atlas — it is the finding: the decision is made where nobody in this position can see it.
Hiring managerNot visible from here
From this position the entry is not visible. That is not a gap in the atlas — it is the finding: the decision is made where nobody in this position can see it.
Public policy and industry standardsNot visible from here
From this position the entry is not visible. That is not a gap in the atlas — it is the finding: the decision is made where nobody in this position can see it.
