OSI-PIA Project Bibliography

This is a living index of external sources cited or linked by the public OSI-PIA article series. It was assembled from the Sources and Sources and Related Articles sections of the articles listed below.

Reading rule

An entry means that an OSI-PIA article cited or linked the source. It does not mean that OSI-PIA has independently verified the source, adopted its claims, or found it current for every purpose. The article remains responsible for stating what it uses the source to support and what remains uncertain.

This bibliography is a supporting publication artifact. It does not create canonical terminology, promote research, or replace source-level provenance and review. A source’s temporal jurisdiction remains limited to the period, population, and conditions it actually describes.

Evidence-map model

The bibliography is also the intake point for literature positioning. Each source should be assessed with the following fields before it is used to support a formal paper, a canonical artifact, or a present-state claim:

full citation / DOI / URL — the precise source locator;
source type — peer-reviewed study, preprint, primary policy or guidance, industry/think-tank report, book, conceptual/theoretical work, journalism, or practitioner commentary;
project scope — PIA, OSI, or both;
relevant constructs — for example capability, fit, trust, mobility, skill utilization, overqualification, learning, internal labor markets, or machine participation;
study design / sample — what was actually observed and how;
key findings and limitations — reported separately;
supports — the bounded claim the source can help support;
does not support — conclusions the source cannot establish;
relationship to the current model — overlap, recombination, operational difference, or possible gap; and
review status — unread, skimmed, reviewed, or incorporated.

The current source entries preserve article citations and are intentionally cited-unassessed until those fields are completed. Being listed is not the same as being read, reviewed, or incorporated.

Use the Literature-Positioning Matrix to compare research traditions without treating a familiar label as proof that the OSI-PIA formulation is either novel or already established.

Bibliography review date: 2026-09-16
Source scope: public article citations in the clean repository
Article-cited source locators indexed: 41 Research-candidate source locators indexed: 7 Total external source locators indexed: 48

Article citation map

Article	Repository source
Hiring Does Not Have a Talent Problem. It Has a Translation Problem	Initial hiring, hidden-worker, and AI-adoption sources
The False Negative Machine	AI screening, bias, ATS, employment-governance, and risk-management sources
Real Capability vs. Manufactured Polish	AI-generated resume, hiring-signal, and capability-translation sources
Hidden Workers and Capability Leakage	Hidden-worker, technology-labor, and people-leadership sources
Poking a Hole in the Fog of ATS War	ATS and candidate-experience sources
The Wrong Metrics Are Steering the System	Hiring-market, workforce-planning, and recruiting-metrics sources
What OSI Is Trying to Measure	Organizational capability, workforce-planning, and AI-risk sources
When the Gate Is Right and Still Wrong	Repository-access and machine-security source
Temporal Authority	Temporal validity, temporal jurisdiction, and capability-state transition sources
Capability Infrastructure Should Belong to the People It Describes	Open Skills/LER, digital credentials, capability portability, mobility, and organizational conversion sources

Research, policy, and primary guidance

ID	Source and locator	Cited in
`src-001`	Harvard Business School — Hidden Workers research page	Translation Problem
`src-002`	Harvard Business School — Hidden Workers report PDF	Hidden Workers; What OSI Is Trying to Measure
`src-003`	Accenture — Uncover missed talent pools	Translation Problem
`src-004`	arXiv — paper 2605.27371	False Negative Machine
`src-005`	Stanford HAI — AI hiring tools and systemic rejection	False Negative Machine
`src-006`	IBM — enterprise AI adoption report	False Negative Machine
`src-007`	U.S. EEOC — assessing adverse impact of software and AI	False Negative Machine
`src-008`	NIST — AI Risk Management Framework	False Negative Machine; What OSI Is Trying to Measure
`src-009`	American Bar Association — AI hiring discrimination claims	False Negative Machine
`src-010`	Reuters — Workday California AI-bias lawsuit coverage	False Negative Machine
`src-011`	Springer — article 10.1007/s41469-025-00197-1	Real Capability vs. Manufactured Polish
`src-012`	World Economic Forum — Chief People Officers Outlook	Hidden Workers; Wrong Metrics; What OSI Is Trying to Measure
`src-013`	SHRM — AI for recruitment and workforce planning	Wrong Metrics; What OSI Is Trying to Measure
`src-014`	Anthropic — threat intelligence report	When the Gate Is Right and Still Wrong

Hiring, ATS, and labor-market commentary

ID	Source and locator	Cited in
`src-015`	Harvard Business Review — AI and hiring	Translation Problem
`src-016`	Harvard Business Review — general landing page	Hidden Workers (general locator; replace with a specific article when relied on again)
`src-017`	VerityAI — Harvard study and qualified candidates	Translation Problem
`src-018`	RaliOnline — AI adoption and worker confidence	Translation Problem
`src-019`	CloudApper — AI resume screening and ATS filters	False Negative Machine
`src-020`	Skillhub — ATS and AI resume filters	False Negative Machine
`src-021`	BBC Worklife — AI recruiting and discrimination	False Negative Machine
`src-022`	LinkedIn — AI and job-market blacklisting	False Negative Machine
`src-023`	Management Consulted — candidates and AI blacklisting	False Negative Machine
`src-024`	Mark Huang — AI Broke the Hiring Signal	Real Capability vs. Manufactured Polish
`src-025`	Robert Half — AI-generated resumes and hiring	Real Capability vs. Manufactured Polish
`src-026`	The Interview Guys — why AI resumes backfire	Real Capability vs. Manufactured Polish
`src-027`	Forbes — generative AI and hiring	Real Capability vs. Manufactured Polish
`src-028`	Softchoice — technology hiring market	Hidden Workers; Wrong Metrics
`src-029`	Entrepreneur — efficiency and candidate invisibility	Poking a Hole in the Fog of ATS War
`src-030`	Enhancv — whether ATS rejects resumes	Poking a Hole in the Fog of ATS War
`src-031`	Resilient Recruiter — hiring-market change	Wrong Metrics
`src-032`	Inc. — hiring slowdown and why it matters	Wrong Metrics

Research-candidate sources for PIA and OSI positioning

These sources were added as a literature-positioning set on 2026-09-16. They were supplied for research follow-up and are not yet cited by a public article or marked as independently reviewed. Their initial type labels are provisional.

ID	Source and locator	Provisional type	Candidate branch	Review status
`src-033`	Person–organization fit meta-analysis	Peer-reviewed meta-analysis	PIA / OSI	`unread`
`src-034`	Sustainable employability and the capability approach	Scholarly article / repository copy	PIA	`unread`
`src-035`	OECD — How Workers Use, or Don’t Use, their Skills	Intergovernmental research report	PIA / OSI	`unread`
`src-036`	Perceived overqualification meta-analysis	Peer-reviewed meta-analysis	PIA	`unread`
`src-037`	Talent designation, high potential, performance, and mobility	Peer-reviewed scholarly article	PIA / OSI	`unread`
`src-038`	NBER — wage and promotion dynamics in internal labor markets	Working paper	OSI	`unread`
`src-039`	Work-sample test validity meta-analysis	Peer-reviewed meta-analysis	PIA	`unread`

Sources added by Articles 8–9

These sources are now linked by the two 2026-09-16 articles. Their article claims remain bounded by each source’s own scope and temporal jurisdiction.

ID	Source and locator	Cited in
`src-040`	Burning Glass Institute and NYU — Sidetracked: The Hidden Crisis in Mid-Career Mobility	Temporal Authority; Capability Infrastructure
`src-041`	Burning Glass Institute and OneTen — Credential Fluency: The Hiring Advantage in the Race for Skills	Capability Infrastructure
`src-042`	Burning Glass Institute and Tullman Family Office — The Company You Keep	Capability Infrastructure
`src-043`	Open Skills Network — Rich Skill Descriptor	Capability Infrastructure
`src-044`	Credential Engine — Credential Transparency Description Language	Capability Infrastructure
`src-045`	1EdTech — Comprehensive Learner Record	Capability Infrastructure
`src-046`	1EdTech — Open Badges	Capability Infrastructure
`src-047`	W3C — Verifiable Credentials Data Model	Capability Infrastructure
`src-048`	HR Open Standards — Trusted Career Profile	Capability Infrastructure

Initial source-type triage

This first-pass classification is deliberately provisional. It identifies the kind of publisher or artifact represented by each locator; it is not a quality ranking and does not imply that the source has been reviewed.

Source IDs	Provisional source type	Review status
`src-001`, `src-002`, `src-012`	University or think-tank research/report	`cited-unassessed`
`src-003`, `src-006`, `src-025`, `src-028`	Industry or employer report/commentary	`cited-unassessed`
`src-004`	Preprint / working paper	`cited-unassessed`
`src-005`, `src-011`	Scholarly or research communication (publication status to verify)	`cited-unassessed`
`src-007`, `src-008`	Primary policy, standards, or public guidance	`cited-unassessed`
`src-009`	Professional or legal analysis	`cited-unassessed`
`src-010`, `src-021`, `src-027`, `src-029`, `src-032`	Journalism or general-interest reporting	`cited-unassessed`
`src-013`, `src-014`	Institutional or practitioner guidance	`cited-unassessed`
`src-015`, `src-016`, `src-017`, `src-018`, `src-019`, `src-020`, `src-022`, `src-023`, `src-024`, `src-026`, `src-030`, `src-031`	Practitioner, vendor, or conceptual commentary	`cited-unassessed`
`src-033`, `src-036`, `src-037`, `src-039`	Peer-reviewed scholarly research or meta-analysis	`unread`
`src-034`	Scholarly article / repository copy	`unread`
`src-035`	Intergovernmental research report	`unread`
`src-038`	Working paper	`unread`
`src-040`, `src-041`, `src-042`	University or think-tank / industry research report	`cited-unassessed`
`src-043`, `src-044`, `src-045`, `src-046`, `src-047`, `src-048`	Primary standards or interoperability guidance	`cited-unassessed`

Maintenance rules

Add a source when it is first cited by a public article; do not silently replace an existing locator.
Keep article-to-source relationships visible so a reader can reconstruct why a source is present.
Record a more precise locator when a general homepage was used initially.
Add publication or access dates when they are available from the source and relevant to the claim.
Recheck temporal validity before reusing a source for a new article or for a present-state claim.
Run the publication encoding, link, and governance checks whenever this bibliography changes.