ok, most 'sending a resume' involves going through a job portal of some sort, doing some work to fill out some stuff, uploading your resume, making a cover letter etc.
If they give me interviews for the 3 that I perfectly match, which most companies do for me, and take home assignments which often happen, I might have basically a full week of stuff to do. At that point I don't want to put out the effort to to go to an interview for a job that on the face of it looks less likely to hire me than one of the other three.
If I see no jobs that perfectly match me then I drop to the close match jobs, but if I see jobs that perfectly match me I don't do the work for the close match jobs.
on edit: and of course what if the company is already only a close match, there is one technology I don't match for the actual job, but then you add a fake tech on top, suddenly I don't match two things.
basically this idea means that you help sort out some of the honest qualified people for your position because they will evaluate the job posting as being less relevant to them than otherwise.
If they give me interviews for the 3 that I perfectly match, which most companies do for me, and take home assignments which often happen, I might have basically a full week of stuff to do. At that point I don't want to put out the effort to to go to an interview for a job that on the face of it looks less likely to hire me than one of the other three.
If I see no jobs that perfectly match me then I drop to the close match jobs, but if I see jobs that perfectly match me I don't do the work for the close match jobs.
on edit: and of course what if the company is already only a close match, there is one technology I don't match for the actual job, but then you add a fake tech on top, suddenly I don't match two things.
basically this idea means that you help sort out some of the honest qualified people for your position because they will evaluate the job posting as being less relevant to them than otherwise.