Removing the skills section on resumes?

An interesting pattern I'm starting to see with resumes is the removal of the skills section.

I'm not sure if this is a feature of AI-generated resumes that's slowly spilling into human-written resumes. I started noticing that the skills section was missing on some of the resumes I'd been reviewing this past month. Then I was recently asked to remove the skills section from a resume I was working on.

Could this be the start of a new trend in resume writing? Removing the dedicated skills section?

I've always seen the skills section as a nice visual break within the document. The reader gets to rest their eyes on a bank of skills and gets a quick, easily digestible picture of the job seeker's capabilities.

Curious to hear everyone's thoughts.

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