{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Closed-Then-Reposted Requisition Motif",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "EVD-004"
    ],
    "content": "# Closed-Then-Reposted Requisition Motif\n\nA candidate completes multiple late-stage interviews, is rejected with a generic message, and sees the identical role reposted weeks later.\n\n### Trigger Rule\nCandidate observes role closure/rejection followed by public reopening of materially similar role listing within 60 days.\n\n### What this Establishes\n- The requisition requirements or target profile were not satisfied by the interviewed pool, or search criteria changed mid-process.\n\n### What this Does NOT Establish\n- Does not establish that the original job listing was fake or a ghost job.\n- Does not establish that candidate was intentionally misled.",
    "id": "P-002",
    "type": "pattern",
    "summary": "A candidate completes multiple late-stage interviews, is rejected with a generic message, and sees the identical role reposted weeks later.",
    "required_artifacts": [
      "A-003",
      "A-004"
    ],
    "compatible_mechanisms": [
      "M-002",
      "M-006",
      "M-010",
      "M-013"
    ],
    "trigger_rule": "Candidate observes role closure/rejection followed by public reopening of materially similar role listing within 60 days.",
    "establishes": [
      "The requisition requirements or target profile were not satisfied by the interviewed pool, or search criteria changed mid-process."
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Does not establish that the original job listing was fake or a ghost job.",
      "Does not establish that candidate was intentionally misled."
    ],
    "interventions": [
      "I-001",
      "I-003"
    ],
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "ats",
        "label": "The sequence, as recorded",
        "context": "one requisition, eleven weeks",
        "lines": [
          {
            "at": "week 0",
            "text": "Applied — req #4471",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "week 2",
            "text": "Recruiter screen — passed",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "week 4",
            "text": "Technical panel — passed",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "week 5",
            "text": "Final round with hiring manager — completed",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "week 6",
            "text": "Rejected — generic template, no specifics given",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "at": "week 11",
            "text": "req #4471 visible on the careers page again, text unchanged",
            "tell": true
          }
        ],
        "reading": "Late-stage progress, a contentless rejection, and the same requisition number back on the board. The sequence is the observation; its cause is not in the sequence."
      },
      {
        "kind": "chat",
        "label": "The question that splits the branches",
        "lines": [
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "week 11",
            "text": "I saw req #4471 listed again. Is this a new opening on the team, or the same one?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Recruiter",
            "at": "week 12",
            "text": "Same requisition. We restarted the search with a revised profile after the first round of interviews.",
            "tell": true
          }
        ],
        "reading": "A revised profile, an automated refresh and a genuinely new headcount are three different mechanisms with one appearance. This is the question that tells them apart."
      }
    ]
  }
}