Your resume says: "Led team of 5 engineers to deliver the platform on time"
The job description says: "Experience managing engineers required"
Keyword matching scores that zero. No shared words. Filtered out.
Semantic matching scores it 0.48 — a strong match. Same meaning, different vocabulary.
This is not an edge case. It happens every time a candidate describes their experience in their own words rather than mirroring the exact phrasing of the job description. Which is most of the time.







