Welcome to Merge Request Mornings, I am Bilal Mirza. If you have ever sent a CV into the void and heard nothing, this episode is for you. My guest is Farida Noor, a technical recruiter who has screened more than twenty thousand applications over twelve years, in Dubai, in Berlin and here in Karachi. I asked her to be blunt, and she was. She reads a CV in about eleven seconds on the first pass, and she is going to tell you exactly what she looks for in those seconds and what makes her move on. We also talk about gaps, career changes, the GitHub profile, and what she really says to the hiring manager after your call. Nothing in this is a trick. It is just how the pipe works. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.