Registry / Mechanisms / M-005

M Mechanism (M-005)

Exogenous (No Agency)

Pre-Selected Internal Candidate

Requisition was publicly advertised to satisfy corporate policy or legal compliance while an internal employee was already earmarked for the role.

Classification Facets

Actor Locus: policy

Nature: incentive

Visibility: opaque

Removability: none

Structural Funnel Gates (Barriers) Where Mechanism Operates

B-013: Requisition Approval & Public Posting Stage: pre-posting B-001: Application Ingestion Stage: ingestion B-003: Inbound Screening & Triage Stage: screening B-007: Hiring Manager In-Depth Review Stage: hiring-manager

Observable Signals Emitted (Artifacts)

A-002 Fidelity: euphemism

Generic "closer alignment" rejection template

A-003 Fidelity: euphemism

Position closed after final interview without hire

Explicit Forensic Non-Inferences:

Cannot be asserted as fact without internal hiring log confirmation.

Causal Graph Relations

Masks (Provides plausible cover for):

M-002: Stronger Competing Candidate in Final Cohort

Machine-readable static endpoint: /api/v1/mechanisms/M-005.json