المؤهلات في السيرة الذاتية.

المؤهلات means qualifications, credentials, or sometimes skills/background that make someone suitable for a job.

It is the plural of مؤهَّل or مؤهِّل depending on usage, but in modern job-related Arabic, مؤهلات commonly refers to a person’s qualifications in a CV or résumé.

In this sentence, it is best understood as the heading Qualifications.

The prefix الـ is the Arabic definite article, meaning the.

So:

• مؤهلات = qualifications
• المؤهلات = the qualifications

In English, section headings often drop the and just say Qualifications, but Arabic often uses the definite form in headings. So even if the natural English translation is just Qualifications, the Arabic may still use المؤهلات.

It is plural.

A common singular form is مؤهَّل meaning qualification or credential.

The ending ـات is a very common plural ending in Arabic, often called the sound feminine plural. Even though the word refers to qualifications and not to female people, Arabic still often uses this plural pattern for abstract nouns and many non-human nouns.

So:

• مؤهَّل = a qualification
• مؤهلات = qualifications

A careful pronunciation is approximately:

al-muʾahhalāt

A few points matter here:

• الـ = al-
• The ؤ represents a hamza in the middle, so there is a slight break: mu-ʾa...
• The هّ has shadda, so the h sound is doubled or held slightly longer
• The ending ـات is usually pronounced -āt

Because م is a moon letter, the l in الـ is pronounced clearly. So you say al-mu..., not am-mu...

في means in.

So:

• في السيرة الذاتية = in the CV / in the résumé

After a preposition like في, the following noun phrase is in the genitive case in formal grammar.

If fully vowelled, you could write:

• في السيرةِ الذاتيةِ

In normal unvowelled writing, those case endings are not shown.

السيرة الذاتية literally means something like the self-biography or the personal life account, but in modern usage it means CV, résumé, or curriculum vitae.

Breakdown:

• سيرة = biography, life story, course
• ذاتية = self-related, personal, autobiographical

Together, السيرة الذاتية is the standard Arabic term for a CV/résumé.

Because الذاتية is an adjective describing السيرة, and Arabic adjectives must agree with the noun they describe.

They agree in:

• definiteness
• gender
• number
• case

So if the noun is definite:

• السيرة = the biography / the CV

then the adjective must also be definite:

• الذاتية = self-related / personal

That is why it is:

• السيرة الذاتية
• not السيرة ذاتية

No, it is not an iḍāfa. It is a noun + adjective phrase.

This is a very common learner question because two Arabic words appear next to each other, but here the second word is an adjective, not a second noun in possession.

Why it is not iḍāfa:

• In an iḍāfa, the first noun usually does not take ال
• Here, the first word is السيرة, which already has الـ
• The second word الذاتية agrees like an adjective

Compare:

• السيرة الذاتية = the autobiographical/personal biography = the CV
  → noun + adjective

A true iḍāfa would look structurally different.

Because this is not really a full sentence in the usual sense. It is a noun phrase, and most likely a heading or section title.

Arabic often uses short noun phrases for titles, labels, and headings, just like English does:

• Qualifications
• Education
• Work Experience

So المؤهلات في السيرة الذاتية is best understood as something like:

• Qualifications in the CV
• or simply a heading related to qualifications on a résumé

No verb is needed.

If you fully vowel the phrase in a formal grammatical way, it would typically be:

المؤهلاتُ في السيرةِ الذاتيةِ

Here is why:

• المؤهلاتُ is the main noun of the phrase, so it would normally be nominative with ـُ
• في causes the following noun to be genitive
• therefore السيرةِ
• and the adjective الذاتيةِ matches it in the genitive

In everyday Arabic writing, these endings are normally omitted.

Yes, something like this is understandable, but on an actual CV, the most common heading is often simply:

• المؤهلات
• or more specifically المؤهلات العلمية = academic qualifications

Depending on context, you may also see headings like:

• الخبرات = experience
• المهارات = skills
• التعليم = education

So المؤهلات في السيرة الذاتية sounds more like a phrase discussing the topic of qualifications in a résumé, while المؤهلات by itself is more natural as a section heading on the résumé itself.