{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Speculative Sourcing / Talent Pooling Without Opening",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "EVD-001"
    ],
    "content": "# Speculative Sourcing / Talent Pooling Without Opening\n\nRecruiters proactively gather candidate pools for future anticipated headcount that is not yet authorized or funded.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `recruiter`\n- **Nature:** `incentive`\n- **Removability:** `none`\n\n### Causal Relations\n- Amplifies `M-009` — Recruiter Volume & Quota Incentive Distortion\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Ghosting after outbound message indicates absence of immediate opening, not profile rejection.",
    "id": "M-016",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "Recruiters proactively gather candidate pools for future anticipated headcount that is not yet authorized or funded.",
    "operates_at": [
      "B-013",
      "B-014",
      "B-003",
      "B-004"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "A-012",
        "fidelity": "distortion",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-001"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "A-001",
        "fidelity": "void",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-001"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "recruiter",
      "nature": "incentive",
      "visibility": "opaque",
      "removability": "none"
    },
    "amplifies": [
      "M-009"
    ],
    "masks": [],
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "honest_baseline": false,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "chat",
        "label": "What the outreach was actually for",
        "lines": [
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "day 1",
            "text": "Great talking today. To set expectations — is there an open requisition behind this?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Recruiter",
            "at": "day 1",
            "text": "Not yet. We are building a bench ahead of the Q3 planning round; if the headcount is approved you would be first in line.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "day 1",
            "text": "Understood, thanks for saying so.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "A straight answer converts a mystery into a schedule. The same silence three months later means something entirely different once this line exists."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Ghosting after outbound message indicates absence of immediate opening, not profile rejection."
    ]
  }
}