Registry / Mechanisms / M-006

M Mechanism (M-006)

Exogenous (No Agency)

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.

Classification Facets

Actor Locus: system

Nature: void

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-002: Automated Filter & Parser Threshold Stage: ingestion B-003: Inbound Screening & Triage Stage: screening

Observable Signals Emitted (Artifacts)

A-001 Fidelity: void

Complete silence after submission

A-004 Fidelity: noise

Materially similar role reposted shortly after rejection

Explicit Forensic Non-Inferences:

Application silence does not reflect candidate suitability.

Causal Graph Relations

Amplifies (Increases likelihood of):

M-020: Automated Application Expiration Timeout

Targeted System Interventions:

I-001: Auto-Close Stale Job Requisitions

Implement automated ATS policy to expire public listings when headcount authorization lapses or no interview activity occurs within 60 days.

Machine-readable static endpoint: /api/v1/mechanisms/M-006.json