Learn French: Le recruteur cherche un candidat qui corresponde à ces exigences. - The recruiter is looking for a candidate who meets these requirements.

The recruiter is looking for an ideal candidate, but it is not certain that this person actually exists yet. When a relative clause (starting with qui or que) describes something you are looking for or hoping to find, French uses the subjunctive to show that uncertainty.

Would it be wrong to use the indicative and say qui correspond?

It would not be grammatically wrong, but it changes the meaning. If you use the indicative correspond, it implies the recruiter already knows this specific person exists and is simply trying to locate them. The subjunctive corresponde emphasizes that they are searching for a hypothetical match.

Why is there an à before ces exigences?

In French, the verb correspondre requires the preposition à when it means to match, fit, or meet a standard. While in English we directly 'meet a requirement', in French you 'correspond to' a requirement (correspondre à une exigence).

How do we find the stem to form the subjunctive corresponde?