Data hygiene as a discipline

Data hygiene is one of this role's core deliverables. Hiring managers decide off the records you keep and Cursor's ~2-week loops leave no room for a stalled candidate to sit unnoticed for days.

Hygiene means a small number of invariants are always true in the system. State them as conditions you actively protect, not chores you sometimes get to.

• Every candidate is in the correct stage - no one parked in a stage they've already cleared or been rejected from.
• No stale records: a candidate who went quiet two weeks ago isn't still showing as active in the funnel.
• No duplicates: one person, one record, even if they applied twice or were sourced and referred.
• Interview kits are attached before each loop and scorecards are routed to the right interviewers.
• Feedback is in before the decision meeting - not chased during it.

Invariants drift on their own. People forget to advance a stage, two sources create two records, an interviewer ghosts a scorecard. The discipline is the audit habit: a regular sweep that catches drift before anyone trips over it.

1. 1Daily: stage sweep. Scan active candidates for anyone mis-staged or stuck longer than the loop should allow.
2. 2Daily: scorecard chase. Flag every interview that happened without submitted feedback and nudge the interviewer.
3. 3Weekly: dedupe + stale sweep. Merge duplicate records and move genuinely dead candidates out of the active pipe.
4. 4Per loop: kit check. Before any onsite, confirm every session has its interview kit attached and the right scorecard mapped.