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Industry TrendsApril 25, 20253 min read

📉 The Resume Problem Nobody Wants to Admit

Vetta Team

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You're hiring for a critical role. You open your ATS. You filter for keywords. You eliminate 90% of applicants in under 10 seconds. Efficient, right?

Except the person who actually solved your exact problem last year?
They used different terminology.
And your system filtered them out.

Every day, companies are missing great hires—not because of lack of talent, but because of resume keyword filtering.


🤖 Keyword Matching Isn't Matching. It's Guessing.

Here's how most systems work:

  • A job post lists required terms (often copy/pasted from old listings)
  • The resume parser checks for matches
  • Candidates get ranked by how often they repeat those terms

But here's what that misses:

  • Context ("led vs contributed to" ≠ same thing)
  • Impact (what did they actually accomplish?)
  • Transferable skills (solving similar problems in other industries)

You're not hiring a thesaurus.
You're hiring a problem-solver.


🔥 The Cost of Filtering Out the Right People

Keyword-based hiring leads to:

  • Poor-fit hires with perfect buzzwords
  • Overlooked talent who don't game the system
  • Biased outcomes based on writing style, language background, or industry jargon
  • A hiring process that's fast—but wrong

Resumes are not databases. They're artifacts.
And they were never meant to be parsed by machines looking for the word "synergy."


💡 The Vetta Way: Match by Outcomes, Not Phrases

At Vetta, we don't filter resumes by keywords.
We match people by what they've actually done.

Here's how:

  • Employers describe the problem they're hiring to solve
  • Candidates create STAR-format bullets showing real outcomes
  • Our AI ranks matches based on problem-solving history—not buzzwords

✅ No formatting games

✅ No trick phrasing

✅ No resume black holes


✨ Outcomes > Keywords. Every Time.

You don't need more applicants.
You need the right ones—and they don't always speak in the same terms you do.

If you're ready to hire based on what someone's capable of, not what keywords they've copy/pasted…

Ready to hire based on outcomes, not keywords?

See how Vetta works →

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