It's not for the human readers to skip the section so much as to simply acknowledge that you're doing it for the machines. If I'm a human and I'm reading a ski

It's not for the human readers to skip the section so much as to simply acknowledge that you're doing it for the machines. If I'm a human and I'm reading a skills section that includes PostgreSQL, PL/pgSQL, SQL and RDBMS, I might think "Aw, she's padding her resume, those are all related." But if I slap a "Buzzwords" section on there, now it's clear why it's there. And I do think that's important. Say you've got an HR drone who is told to look for candidates who know SQL. He might see a resume including Oracle, Postgres and DB/2. We all know those require knowing SQL, but the HR guy doesn't. He won't see the magic word "SQL", so there's a good chance your resume will get ignored. That example is also why I suggest that no hiring manager ever let HR screen resumes. It's just too important to be left to a filter that doesn't have the proper knowledge set. Sure, your recruiters at Google and Microsoft and other big operations know these tech things. But most tech jobs aren't at tech companies like that.