Interesting idea. The problem with "...as if you're talking to the person directly" is that the first couple/few things (sometimes even people) that see the resume have no ability (much less desire) to actually interpret its contents and are more interested in keyword searches. It's a strange balance of tweaking a single document to show different things to different audiences. What it comes down to is that the cross section between "what I just did" and "what I want to do" is so VERY thin that highlighting it would be a bald faced lie. Sure I did some C++ legacy code remediation. But most of it was perl and csh/bash crap. I ended up listing technologies in a general sense, keeping specific details of "what language soandso was written in" out of it and highlighting "value to end users." At least that way I don't bury myself. We'll see what happens.