I'm not aware of any advantage of gitea over forgejo. I'm running the latter myself and I'm very happy.

Gitlab provides more corporate bling bling around the core git experience than forgejo but is also way heavier.

I'd check if jorgejo fulfils your needs.

Also in addition you could check out codeberg.org which runs forgejo and is a nonprofit - especially when it comes to recruiters a public facing entity might look better to someone who has no idea of self hosting.

I really enjoy forgejo though, it's just a very straight forward piece of software which does what's it advertising.