There's a question very few people ask before sending their CV: what words is the ATS of this specific company looking for?
Not "what words are important in my industry in general." But what exact words does this specific job posting use.
The difference between those two questions is the difference between passing the filter or not.
How keywords work in the ATS:
Each company configures its ATS with a list of keywords based on the job description. When a CV arrives, the system counts how many of those words appear. If the percentage is high, the CV passes. If it's low, it doesn't.
It's not exactly that simple, modern systems have some semantic capability, but the basic logic works this way.
How to find the right keywords:
The manual method is to read the job offer carefully and underline all the specific nouns and verbs that repeat or that sound technical or specific to the role. Those are your keywords. Then you review your CV and make sure each of those words appears at least once, in the right context.
The second step is to look at several similar offers for the same type of position at different companies. The words that repeat across all of them are the keywords for your industry. The ones unique to a specific offer are the ones you need to add for that particular application.
The most common mistake:
Using synonyms. If the posting says "data analysis" and you put "data analytics" or "analisis de datos," the ATS might not connect them. You need to use the exact words, not equivalents.
How Resumelyn does it:
Instead of doing that process by hand, Resumelyn reads the job description you paste, extracts the relevant keywords, compares them against your CV, identifies which ones are missing and which ones are poorly worded, and rewrites your CV incorporating those words in the right context.
It's not copying and pasting random words. It's integrating them coherently into your real experience so the CV sounds natural and passes the ATS at the same time.
Find the keywords for your next job at resumelyn.com