A person who achieves a desired position due to one or more nonjob competency related criteria. The organization may deem that the criteria helps their public or other social favorability. I.
E. the candidate "checks the
box". This term and related policy has become more frequently used in
politics and in very large public or private companies, to not infrequent embarrassing ends, since a more competent applicant would have been overlooked in favor of a
box checker.