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Faculty Search Committee
Confidential records from a university faculty search process. Contains candidate profiles, evaluation scores, and hiring committee notes.
This collection contains private fields. Sensitive data (committee scores, salary offers, internal notes) is access-controlled.
Fields
- candidate_name — Candidate's full name
- candidate_orcid — ORCID identifier (when available)
- current_institution — Candidate's current affiliation
- research_area — Primary research focus
- career_stage — Career level (assistant, associate, full, industry)
- h_index — h-index at time of application
- publications_count — Total publications
- grant_funding_total — Lifetime grant funding received
- teaching_score (private) — Committee evaluation of teaching (1-5)
- research_score (private) — Committee evaluation of research (1-5)
- interview_score (private) — Interview performance score (1-5)
- committee_notes (private) — Free-text committee deliberation notes
- salary_offer (private) — Proposed salary (if offer extended)
- status — Current status in the pipeline (applied, interviewed, offered, accepted, declined, rejected)
Cross-collection linking
The candidate_orcid field enables joins with public collections — for example, verifying a candidate's publication record in OpenAlex or confirming NIH funding history. This demonstrates how private institutional data can be enriched with public sources while maintaining access controls.
Note
This is synthetic data generated for demonstration purposes. No real candidates or evaluations are represented.