Garbage in, garbage out for every metric

Time-to-hire, funnel conversion, interviewer load, source effectiveness - every recruiting metric is computed from the same candidate and stage records you maintain. If a candidate sits in the wrong stage for a week, time-in-stage is wrong, the bottleneck report points at the wrong place and someone makes a process decision off a number that was never real. Clean data is not a tidiness preference. It is the precondition for the team trusting any report at all.

If you have not used Cursor's exact ATS, do not hedge. Name the objects - candidates, jobs, stages, interview kits, scorecards - explain how they link and then say: “Every ATS is a variation on those objects, so I ramp fast; what stays constant is keeping the record true so the team can act on it without double-checking.” That converts a gap into a demonstration of fluency.