- What reaches them
- A posting rule that applies to every requisition, and a proposed field stating what already stands behind one before it goes live.
- What it means from there
- A published slate makes an internal candidacy visible to that employee's own team and to everyone who reads the posting; a rule that discloses for all requisitions cannot be switched off for one.
- What happens next
- Defines when a candidacy counts as formal and therefore disclosable, and that definition is what the posting field is filled from.
Internal Candidacy Stated in the Posting
Where a formal internal candidacy exists against a requisition at the moment it is published, the posting says so and says what the external loop decides.
Intervention I-008 Actor: employer policy Scope: organizational Cost: medium Evidence: hypothesis
On the canonical path
Published with its terms on the page — 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 things that holds that commitment up.
What it looks like when this intervention is in place
Composite excerpts, written to be typical rather than copied. No particular message, company or person is quoted here.
Title: Staff Engineer · Platform — status of the search
Requisition 4820, approved, level L5. One internal candidate has been under formal consideration since 2 March.
The external loop runs to four rounds and the decision compares the slate; it is neither a formality nor a search with no incumbent.
If the internal candidacy is withdrawn, this line comes off and the posting is dated again.
What to notice: Nothing in the process changed. What changed is when the fact is available: on the posting, rather than as an aside in the last round.
What this targets
Expected effects
- M-005 stops being opaque at the gate it operates at: the composition of the slate is stated where the posting is, not at minute 41 of a final round
- B-013 publishes one more field — whether the external loop runs against an internal candidacy already formally under consideration
What to measure
slate_disclosure_rateinternal_fill_rate_on_posted_requisitionsexternal_rounds_per_internal_fill
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
- Fewer external applications against a requisition carrying the line, and the same number of interview slots to fill.
- What it means from there
- The comparison the loop exists for still needs a slate; a smaller external pool is the cost of the pool knowing what it is entering.
- What happens next
- Runs the loop as posted, and where the external pool thins below what a comparison needs, asks whether the role should be posted externally at all.
- What reaches them
- A posting stating that an internal candidacy exists, with a date on it, before any round is scheduled.
- What it means from there
- The composition of the slate is stated rather than inferred, and the hours a four-round loop costs are weighed against it.
- What happens next
- Applies or does not, and where they do, asks at the first screen what the internal candidate has already been observed doing.
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.
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.
RecruiterNot 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.
