- What reaches them
- A requisition moved to paused or unfunded in the budget ledger.
- What it means from there
- Pausing an approved requisition keeps the option to restart it, and the approval costs nothing while it sits.
- What happens next
- Records the change where budgets are recorded. Taking a public listing down is a separate action in a separate system, and the budget decision does not trigger it.
Stale or Orphaned Job Requisition
Job posting remains active on careers page and aggregator portals despite the team having ceased active hiring or closed headcount.
Mechanism M-006 Exogenous (no agency) Actor: systemNature: voidVisibility: opaqueAgency zone: noneEvidence: established
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 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 0 Candidate I applied for this in January and again in March — is the posting current?
- day 2 Recruiter Let me check. That team stopped hiring in December; the listing should have come down. I will get it removed.
What to notice: The posting was not bait and it was not a decision. It was a record nobody owned, which is a different thing to be angry at.
Barriers where this mechanism operates
Observations this mechanism emits
What this does NOT establish
- Application silence does not reflect candidate suitability.
Causal relations
Interventions targeting this mechanism
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 posting record in an active state, and applications arriving against it.
- What it means from there
- The state of the record is a customer-owned field. Nothing distinguishes a running search from a record no one has closed.
- What happens next
- Keeps rendering and syndicating the posting and accepting applications, and closes the unreviewed ones when the expiry default reaches its threshold.
- What reaches them
- The requisition list as the platform holds it, in which a listing no longer being worked looks like any other.
- What it means from there
- Whether a search is still running is a fact held by the team that stopped, not by the funnel.
- What happens next
- Answers directly and has the listing removed once the question arrives. A requisition with no search behind it does not enter time-to-fill, which is what is counted.
- What reaches them
- A posting visible on the careers page and on aggregators, and no reply after submission.
- What it means from there
- Silence is the same artifact whether a record was left open or an application was read and set aside.
- What happens next
- Asks directly whether the posting is current, which is the only channel that returns the state of the record, and keeps the date of each submission.
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.
