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Because there’s 100’s of people who have more experience and companies can pick the best person, that can hit all the marks. Other times, companies might want to go for the person, that has some of the skills and is ok with the rate of pay (the economy isn’t good right now).
Usually it’s not about being “perfect”, it’s about being the easiest fit to say yes to. Hiring teams skim for very specific stuff, and if your resume doesn’t line up with the exact wording in the posting, you can get skipped even if you’d do great.
I’ve seen this happen to a friend who kept getting ghosted for roles she was legit qualified for. Turned out her resume was way too broad, plus she had some weird formatting that probably didn’t help with the ATS side of things. I ended up using ResumeJudge on a couple of her applications and it was annoyingly obvious which keywords were missing.
If you can, compare your resume line by line with the job ad and pull in the exact keywords they keep repeating, not just similar words. Also watch out for tables, text boxes, and fancy headers, those can mess up parsing way more than people think. What role was it, and did it have one of those giant “requirements” sections with like 15 bullet points?