x420 – advantage session building an employment focused website discussion session
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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 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,jboss@anatel.gov.br(+55 61) 323 7865
Idea 1
Online ResumesIdea 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:bpo@indiana.edu">bpo@indiana.edu</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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