Many ATSs are unable to read nuance, meaning that if the job ad asks for a skill such as «experience writing newsletters» and you write «experienced with newsletter writing» the ATS could deem you an unqualified candidate despite the fact that
both phrases mean the same thing.
So, for example, if the job ad asks for a candidate with good «oral communication skills» and your resume says that you have good «verbal communication skills,» you may get knocked out of the running even though
those phrases mean the same thing.
Those two
phrases mean the same thing but the wording in your resume must be exact for an ATS to recognize your skills during a scan and determine you are a qualified candidate.
Not exact matches
This explains why friends will reach for
phrases like The
same thing happened to me and I know just what you
mean, Deborah Tannen, Ph.D., a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and the author of last year's You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women's Friendships, tells Health.
Now the
phrase «economically rational» does have utility in this respect — the first definition would
mean the
same thing for everyone — acting like an owner.
But there is a
phrase «correlation does not prove causation», which is to say, just because
things happen at the
same time doesn't
mean one
thing caused the other.