--- id: I-008 type: intervention title: "Internal Candidacy Stated in the Posting" lang: en registry: 2026.08.2 canonical: https://hoba.work/interventions/I-008 json: https://hoba.work/api/v1/interventions/I-008.json --- # 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. > **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 things that holds that commitment up. ## At a glance - Actor: employer policy - Scope: organizational - Cost: medium - Evidence: hypothesis ## What it looks like Composite excerpts, written to be typical rather than copied. No particular message, company or person is quoted here. **The posting, with the slate in it** — *reconstruction* ``` Subject: 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 If the internal candidacy is withdrawn, this line comes off and the posting is dated again.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. ## 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 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. ### Hiring manager - **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. ### Candidate - **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. ## 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_rate` - `internal_fill_rate_on_posted_requisitions` - `external_rounds_per_internal_fill` ## Related entries - targets — [M-005](https://hoba.work/mechanisms/M-005) — Pre-Selected Internal Candidate - targets — [B-013](https://hoba.work/barriers/B-013) — Requisition Approval & Public Posting --- hoba — a public, versioned atlas of hiring obstacles. Content CC BY-SA 4.0. This document is generated from the registry; the canonical page is linked above.