# Vantage Screening Group — Candidate Disqualification Matrix v4.2

**[SATIRE]** — by The Satire Desk · inspired by a leaked recruiter screening list

VANTAGE SCREENING GROUP — TALENT OPERATIONS
Candidate Disqualification Matrix — v4.2
Internal. Do not distribute. Specifically, do not leave it in the job posting.

PURPOSE
To standardise first-pass rejection at scale. Previous guidance (“use judgement”) was found to be doing too little.

DISQUALIFY ON SIGHT
• The #OpenToWork badge. Ambition, when visible, is a liability.
• A layoff, ever, for any reason. Especially performance.
• “In between roles” — i.e. currently a person.
• Stated interest in AI, LLMs or crypto. They will want to talk about it.
• Contract or part-time history. They have learned to leave.
• A gap of two to four months. Note for the file: this is roughly parental leave.
• Job-hopping, defined as 1.5 to 2 years per role — i.e. normal.
• Big Tech only. They expect things.
• More than eight years' experience. See attached note on “trajectory”.

ESCALATE
• Anyone who asks what the salary is.
• Anyone who asks what the salary is, twice.

APPROVED WORKAROUND
• If every applicant is disqualified and the team still needs a person, hire an internal referral and skip this form.

SIGN-OFF
• Reviewed by: Talent Operations.
• Not reviewed by: Legal, which has asked us to stop.

— Vantage Screening Group. We find the one who survives the process.

*Source: [Inspired by a leaked recruiter screening list (via News18) · fiction — Vantage Screening Group is invented](https://www.news18.com/viral/recruiter-accidentally-leaves-traits-to-avoid-list-in-job-posting-no-open-to-work-job-hopping-ws-l-10333155.html)*

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