# Open and Source the Role

Status: draft · v0.1.0 · Hiring System
draft reference — not a fitted standard

Launch an authorized role and generate a viable, informed candidate pool through deliberate audiences, channels, messages, and pipeline control.

## Purpose
Attract enough relevant candidates for a fair selection process without allowing urgency, title conventions, or channel habits to rewrite the approved role.

## Steps
1. Authorize the opening — Confirm every upstream control before recruiting activity begins.
2. Design the sourcing plan — Choose audiences and channels from the role and labor market rather than habit.
3. Prepare the candidate proposition — Explain the actual work and employment frame accurately enough for informed self-selection.
4. Launch and reach the market — Execute the plan consistently while preserving source and message evidence.
5. Apply minimum eligibility consistently — Route applicants using only approved, job-related entry criteria before assessment.
6. Manage pipeline flow and candidate status — Maintain enough viable candidates without sacrificing treatment or downstream capacity.
7. Handoff to assessment and close sourcing — Transfer candidate and process context without allowing sourcing impressions to become unstructured selection evidence.

## Connections
- upstream: Define Role and Success Profile (/processes/define-role-success-profile) — trigger: The role profile is approved and the workforce decision remains active.
- upstream: Establish Compensation Range and Employment Parameters (/processes/establish-compensation-range) — trigger: Parameters are approved and the role is authorized to open.
- downstream: Assess and Select Candidates (/processes/assess-and-select-candidates) — trigger: A candidate satisfies the approved assessment entry gate.

## Measures
- Viable candidate coverage: Role-specific review of eligible candidates relative to assessment capacity and decision needs; not a universal quota.
- Eligibility yield by source: Candidates meeting approved minimum criteria divided by applicants, segmented by source and interpreted with volume and context.
- Source-to-assessment time: Elapsed time from application or outreach response to accepted assessment handoff.
- Candidate status health: Active candidates with current status, assigned owner, and communication within the defined cadence divided by all active candidates.
- Withdrawal and process exception pattern: Withdrawals, complaints, stale states, unauthorized messages, criteria exceptions, and data issues by stage and source.
- Access and treatment guardrail: Qualified contextual review of source reach, progression, withdrawal, accommodation, communication, and feedback patterns; not a causal or legal conclusion.