Unreliably, which is the problem. Parsers extract text into fields, and content inside tables and floating text boxes can come out reordered, mislabeled, or missing. Nothing rejects you for using them; you just risk the recruiter opening a record where your skills fell out of the layout.
Tables and text boxes store text in containers that sit outside the normal reading flow, and different parsers make different guesses about where that content belongs. Your carefully aligned skills grid can arrive as one long unpunctuated line, or not arrive.
Everything a table does for a resume, plain formatting does more safely: bold for emphasis, standard headings for structure, one column for order. Save the containers for documents that will only ever meet human eyes, and let your resume travel light through the parse.
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