Rejection within minutes of application submission

Automated rejection email arrives within 2 to 30 minutes of form submission, outside human business hours.

Funnel Stages: ingestion

Diagnostic Epistemic Posture

This observation represents an empirical signal received or experienced by a candidate. In the HOBA framework, an observation is an empirical consequence of underlying system mechanisms, not a causal proof in itself.

Recommended Diagnostic Probes

[PROBE-A-009-1] Diagnostic Probe Cost: low

Action: Audit application answers to mandatory knock-out questions (work permit, country of residence, minimum years experience).

Expected Signal: Identifies exact boolean filter rule triggered by ATS.

Compatible Mechanisms (3)

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M-003 candidate

ATS Parser Extraction Failure

Multi-column formatting, graphics, custom fonts, or unsupported document layouts cause ATS parser to corrupt or omit critical work history.

M-008 candidate

Automated Keyword / Qualification Filter

Deterministic filter rejecting applications missing exact acronyms, certifications, or specific years-of-experience thresholds.

M-014 intermediary

Location or Timezone Compliance Constraint

Company legal or tax entity cannot support remote employment contracts in candidate physical residency jurisdiction.

What this observation does NOT establish:

Does not imply candidate resume was judged as poor by human engineers.

Participates in Contradiction Patterns:

P-003: Experience-Age Impossibility

Requisition requires more years of hands-on experience in a specific framework or tool than that technology has existed in the open-source ecosystem.

Machine-readable static endpoint: /api/v1/artifacts/A-009.json