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 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, 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.