What recruiters notice first on a resume (and what eye-tracking heatmaps do not prove)

Recruiters often scan before they read closely, but the famous heatmap is not a universal map of every hiring decision. The defensible lesson is simpler: make your role, relevance, scope, and strongest truthful evidence easy to find.

How to write resume bullet points without inventing metrics

You do not need a percentage in every resume bullet. When a result was never measured, use facts you can defend: what you changed, the scale of the work, who used it, and what happened next.