X420 – Advantage Session Building an Employment Focused Website Discussion Session.

X420 – Advantage Session

Building an Employment Focused Website

Discussion Session

Index

• Why?• Unorthodox Resource• Basic Rules• Idea 1: Clickable Resume• Idea 2: Online Portfolio• Idea 3: Info Repository• Idea 4: Showing Off

• Setting up my webpage• Tools available• HTML, briefly

Why an Employment Based Website?

• attachment is a problem

• creativity is important

• to provide more information

• create more possibilities

Why

Unorthodox Resource

Imagine the following dialogue:- Hey do you know someone who could fill in this

position?

- I know a friend of my cousin’s dog sitter who’s about to graduate from the Kelley school and is looking for a job…

- Can you ask them to send their resume?

- I will look into that

Resource

Common Sense Basic Rules

• No use of copyrighted material

• No links to sites you don’t want your future boss to see or to relate to you

• No use of foul language or heavy criticisms

• No abuse of bells and whistles

• Not recommended links to personal pictures or to blogs (online journals)

Rules

Idea 1: Clickable resumeIdea 1

Idea 1: Clickable Resume

Period: XX/YY – XX/YYNational Agency for Telecommunications (Anatel) Brasília, BrazilTelecommunications EngineerXXX (detailed job assignments)XXXReason for leaving: resigned for personal reasons.Supervisor Contact: Mr. John Boss,[email protected](+55 61) 323 7865

Idea 1

Online ResumesIdea 1

Idea 2: Online Portfolio

• Marketing major • Skilled in artistic drawings• Skilled in computer-aided drawing• Skills that express your creativity in ways that can be

displayed through pictures – build a website that links to actual projects with which you

were involved• portfolios.com

Idea 2

Idea 2: Online PortfolioIdea 2

Idea 3: Repository of Information

• Store information to choose what you want– you still want the recruiter to become aware of the

rest of your experience

Idea 3

Idea 4: To Show Off Your Skills

• If you are a CIS/ODT major, and you know how to operate online databases, you can either– build a website where you can show your skills

Idea 4

Idea 4: To Show Off Your SkillsIdea 4

How to get started?

• Where to store your page– University (Knowledge Base, transferring files)– Free hosts (tripod, geocities)

• How to build your page– UITS Classes (IT training)– Software– Online guides

• Webmonkey• NCSA's Beginners Guide to HTML• Case Western Reserve University's Introduction to HTML

Tools

Tools available

• At IU:– JDeveloper– Coldfusion– Dreamweaver– Shockwave– Frontpage– Publisher– Notepad– …

Tools

HTML boosters

• XHTML

• Flash

• Java

• PERL

• CGI (Common Gateway Interface)

• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

• And much, much more…

Tools

Basic concepts of HTML

• HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language

• A web page is composed of a text file that contains instructions that will be interpreted by the browser.

• HTML is the basic “communication” tool in a web page

HTML

De-Mystifying HTML

• The same concept of highlighting the text and making it bold

• What you would otherwise do with your mouse, you do with HTML tags:

<b>IU</b>

• This will appear as

IU

HTML

Basic HTML tags

<head> </head>

<body></body>

<table></table>, <tr></tr>, <td></td>

<ul></ul>, <ol></ol>, <li>

<b></b>, <strong></strong>, <i></i>

<a></a>

HTML

The CSO web pageHTML

Example - Tables

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td style="color:#666666;" align="left" colspan="2"><strong>Contact Info</strong></td></tr><tr><td height="4"><img src="/cgi-bin/graphics/homepage/trans_pixel.gif" height="4"></td></tr><tr><td class="sidenav" align="left">Phone: </td><td class="sidenav" align="left"> (812) 855-5317</td></tr><tr><td class="sidenav" align="left">Fax: </td> <td class="sidenav" align="left"> (812) 855-2455</td></tr><tr><td class="sidenav" align="left">E-mail: </td><td class="sidenav" align="left"> <a class="sidenav" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></td></tr>

</table>

HTML

Finally

• This option is NOT meant to replace any of the traditional job search measures

• This option is to be used in addition to the classic job search techniques

• It may be better for some majors than the others

• Great for networking

The End

Evaluation Questions

Use:A. Strongly agreeB. AgreeC. DisagreeD. Strongly disagreeE. Don’t know

1. I found the presentation of material easy to understand.2. This Advantage session increased my knowledge on the

subject presented.3. I will be able to use some of the information from this

Advantage session in the future.4. The presenter was well prepared for this Advantage session.5. This presentation should be repeated in future semesters.

Eval

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