{"id":477,"date":"2024-11-01T12:27:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T12:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parwcc.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2024-12-18T12:29:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T12:29:47","slug":"turn-down-the-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parwcc.com\/turn-down-the-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn Down the Volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alvin has been involved in a lot of different engineering projects throughout his career. His original r\u00e9sum\u00e9 mentioned quite a few of them in various levels of detail across four pages. The bulk of the detail captured his involvement with international projects that happened earlier in his career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More recently, Alvin has been in consulting roles and wants to continue along those same lines. Reverse chronology is definitely in play\u2026infinite chronology is not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In essence, he\u2019s saying \u201cI\u2019ve done a lot of stuff all over the world, and because of that I have a lot to offer a stateside company who needs someone who knows how to walk that line between hands-on project management and strategic consulting.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The nature of project work gives the writer two distinct considerations to navigate:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Redundant types of assignments can be implied to the client\u2019s advantage. Simply provide enough content for the reader to think through\u2026then stop. As if to say \u201cAnd I did similar work with this company and with this company and with this company.\u201d The power lies in what you don\u2019t say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Alvin\u2019s case, this decision was pretty simple. If you want the reader to focus on \u201c2015 to Present\u201d or whatever time frame you choose, then the supporting material \u2014 or in this case, the lack thereof \u2014 needs to reflect that. You can help the reader focus on RIGHT NOW by taking away the kind of job-by-job analysis that comes with traditional handling of the reverse-chronological format.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Projects are researchable. You can go into detail about each one if you want to, or you can even provide a link on the page that allows the reader to opt for any deep-dive background information. But each one of the Notable Projects listed is a Google-able entity, with details that would let the reader know everything they wanted to know about its size and scope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>His project list spans a wide range of companies and countries. Is it essential for the reader to know his job title and the year he worked on each of them? Perhaps at some point, those details will become more relevant. But to do the kind of work he wants to do now, and to present all that in an easily digestible form without getting lost in the details\u2026the answer is \u201cno\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A client who walks in the door with pride, experience, a solid reputation, and pages and pages of source information is often shocked by taking this kind of approach. I get that. It doesn\u2019t have to be done my way to be effective.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I think where we sometimes go astray is when we assume that a second or even third page \u2014 by sheer volume alone \u2014 will carry the value we hope to convey. Given the shrinking nature of an average reader\u2019s attention span, that can be a dangerous assumption to make.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can implied value be equal to or greater than value that is overtly stated? Co-creating value in the mind of a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 reader is a collaborative mental process, facilitated by a written process, that relies on a delicate balance between the known and the unknown.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep in mind that, in this case, the decision to go with a one-page format was NOT pre-meditated. The goal was to showcase the most recent 10-year period, and then ask \u201cDoes the remaining content support or distract from seeing the client as a solution to the reader\u2019s problem?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I really wanted to drive that message home, would saying it louder help? If you believe it would, keep writing. If you believe the volume is sufficient, stop. Trust the process. Based on the quality of the content you present \u2014 as opposed to the amount of content you choose NOT to present \u2014 did you get the volume right?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alvin has been involved in a lot of different engineering projects throughout his career. His original r\u00e9sum\u00e9 mentioned quite a few of them in various levels of detail across four pages. The bulk of the detail captured his involvement with international projects that happened earlier in his career. 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