Online Resume Workshop
Prepared by Sal March
Owen Graduate School of Management
Vanderbilt University
The IT staff at Owen has created a Web site for each MBA student. You can create content for your Web using any number of tools including Microsoft Word and FrontPage as illustrated in this workshop. The URL for your Web site depends on your graduation year:
Graduation Year / URL2003 / http://mba2003.vanderbilt.edu/<Owen Username>
2004 / http://mba.vanderbilt.edu/2004/<Owen Username>
Hence to visit the Web site of second year student Duncan Belser, enter:
http://mba2003.vanderbilt.edu/Duncan.Belser
Faculty use the URL, http://mba.vanderbilt.edu/<Owen Username>. Hence to visit my Owen Web, enter:
http://mba.vanderbilt.edu/Sal.March
If you enter your URL now you will get an error message because it does not currently contain any content. By the end of this workshop it will contain a default or home page and a page containing your resume.
Some students have purchased domain names and obtained Web hosting (or domain name forwarding services) outside of Owen. For example Sherif Shawky uses a domain name forwarding service so that his domain name:
http://SherifShawky.com
is forwarded to the Owen Web Server. Duncan Belser has a Web site at:
http://www.belsercommunications.com/
Mine is at:
http://SalMarch.com
Workshop Task 1
Using Microsoft Word to Save Your Resume to Your Desktop
Web content is typically displayed using HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Word can convert a document into HTML using its “Save as Web Page” option.
1. Open your resume in Microsoft Word.
2. Select Save as Web Page ... from the File menu.
3. Select your desktop and enter Resume.htm for the file name. The Page Title comes from the Document properties of your resume. It will be displayed in the browser title bar. To change it press the Change Title button and enter an appropriate title. Then press the Save button.
4. Leave Word opened and double click Resume.htm on your desktop. Your browser should open and display your resume.
5. Formatting that works well for a printed document is not always appropriate for a Web page. Furthermore, Word does not always do the best job of converting documents into HTML. The right margin may be too wide or lines may be spaced too far apart. To fix wide margins, highlight the entire document and drag the right margin to about the 6 inch mark. To fix line spacing, highlight the entire document, select Paragraph... from the Format menu and set the spacing before and after to 0. Experiment with fonts, sizes, colors, and backgrounds until you are satisfied with the look of your displayed resume. If you have edited the html file you must save it again. Close Word.
6. To open an html file for editing in Word select Open from the File menu, choose the location where you have saved the html file (e.g., Desktop) and set the set the Files of type to All Word Documents as illustrated below. The Open window will include all html files so you can select the one you want to edit. Word also created a folder named Resume_files. This contains formatting information for Resume.htm and files generated for any images.
Workshop Task 2
Upload Your Resume to Your Web Site Using FrontPage
Owen Web servers support FrontPage Extensions enabling access to your Web site directly in FrontPage.
1. Open FrontPage by pressing the Start button and selecting FrontPage from the MS Office cascading menu.
2. Open your Owen Web site by selecting Open Web... from the File menu (be sure to select Open Web... not Open...) and entering your URL in the Web name: box (e.g., I would enter http://mba.vanderbilt.edu/Sal.March), and pressing the Open button.
3. The Owen Web server will open a logon window as illustrated below. Enter your Owen username and password and press the OK button.
4. FrontPage will open and display a folders list and a blank screen as illustrated below. Note that your Folders pane will only show two folders, _private and images. It will not contain any files. My FrontPage Web site, illustrated below, contains a number of files and folders, including my Resume.htm file.
5. Copy and paste your Resume.htm file into the FrontPage Folders list as follows. Switch to your desktop, right click Resume.htm and select Copy. Then point to the white space in the Folders list (not to the _private folder or images folder), right click and select Paste. Resume.htm should appear in the Folders list. Similarly copy and paste the folder Resume_files to your FrontPage Folders list. You upload any file or folder to your Owen Web site in this way. Alternately you can simply drag and drop files or folders from your computer to your FrontPage Folders list.
6. Visit your Web site by entering the appropriate URL. For example, if Sherif saved his resume as above it has the URL
http://mba2003.vanderbilt.edu/Sherif.Shawky/Resume.htm
Sherif actually saved his resume in a file named default.htm. If you enter a URL without a file name the Owen Web server automatically displays the file named default.htm if it exists (if it does not exist it displays an error message). Hence, the URL:
http://mba2003.vanderbilt.edu/Sherif.Shawky
is equivalent to the URL:
http://mba2003.vanderbilt.edu/Sherif.Shawky/default.htm
Workshop Task 3
Using FrontPage to Create a Default and Navigation Page
In contrast to Word, FrontPage is designed specifically for creating and editing Web content. It has support for such functions as adding music, background colors, creating forms, capturing data from visitors, and connecting to databases.
1. Create a new page by pressing the New page icon or by selecting File from the main menu and New page or Web from the cascading New menu (then select Blank Page from the New section of the New page or Web box on the right side of the FrontPage window). A new blank page will open in the main the FrontPage window.
2. Add a Theme by selecting Theme... from the Format menu. A list of themes will be displayed. Check them out and choose on that you like. I prefer a simple theme such as Canvas or Bars or Corporate or Glacier. Press the OK button to add the theme.
3. Insert a one row, two column Table (from the Table menu select Insert and the select Table ... to display the Table window).
4. In the right table column type your contact information as illustrated below (use appropriate fonts and sizes). However, instead of just pressing Enter when you want a new line, hold down the Shift key and press Enter. This will make the line spacing appropriate when saved as a Web page. Note that FrontPage automatically creates appropriate hyperlinks for e-mail addresses and for Web pages. You can also change the size and color of the displayed table border as follows. Right click inside the table and select Table Properties... Set the border size and color as desired.
5. Add your picture. Leaving FrontPage opened, open the Owen Facebook in a browser window and display your picture. Right click your picture and select Copy from the pop up menu. Return to FrontPage and position the cursor in the left column of your table. Then select Paste from the Edit menu. Your picture should appear in that cell as illustrated below (re-size the picture and table cells as desired).
Sal MarchDavid K. Wilson Professor of Management
Owen Graduate School of Management
Vanderbilt University
401 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: (615) 322-7043
Fax: (615) 343-7177
e-mail:
http://salmarch.com
http://mba.vanderbilt.edu/sal.march
6. Save Your Default Page. Select Save as ... from the File menu. Name the file Default.htm. Hence this page will be displayed when your Owen URL is accessed without a file name being specified.
7. Add Hyperlinks. Add a few blank lines below the table. Then drag Resume.htm from the Folders list into the page below the table. A hyperlink will be created. The displayed text comes from the Title of the document (specified in the document Properties in Word). You can change the displayed text for the hyperlink simply by clicking in the hyperlink and typing the desired text. Alternately you can right click the hyperlink, then select Hyperlink Properties... from the popup menu, and type the text to display in the box labeled, Text to display. The Address box in the Hyperlink Properties window contains the URL for the hyperlink. In this case it is simply Resume.htm since this file is in the same folder as Default.htm. If the hyperlink referenced a page on a different Web site it would need to contain the entire URL, e.g., http://mba.vanderbilt.edu/Sal.March/Resume.htm. If you wish the hyperlinked file to be displayed in a new window press the Target Frame... button and select New Window. Press the OK button in the Set Target Frame window, and then press the OK button in the Insert Hyperlink window. You can also create hyperlinks by typing and highlighting the desired text, e.g., My Resume and selecting Hyperlink from the Insert menu. You can then select a file from the displayed file list or enter a URL. You can similarly add hyperlinks for Owen, Vanderbilt, Nashville, etc. in the contact information cell.
8. Visit Your Web Site. Open a browser window and enter the URL of your Owen Web site (without any file name). The default file should be displayed. Click the Resume hyperlink to display your resume.
Again you can experiment with fonts, sizes, colors, and backgrounds. It is usually most effective to keep a consistent theme for all of the Web pages in a single site. You can add a section of "favorite links" following your Resume link. You can create additional pages for your Web by pressing the New page icon, entering content and saving under an appropriate name. Add navigation links as above. For example you could add pages for your hobbies or for music you have created. You can add media to a Web page by pasting the media files into your Folders list and dragging them into a Web page you create. You can add background music to a Web page by selecting Properties... from the File menu and entering an audio file name in the Location box. Of course you must first paste the audio file into your Web site.
Resources:
Owen Creative Services (Judy Wilson):
http://mba.vanderbilt.edu/CreativeServices
Gallery of Web Resumes:
http://www.eResumeIQ.com/gallery.html
Microsoft FrontPage Sites:
XP - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;fp2002
Office 2000 - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];fp2000
VisiBooks FrontPage 2000 Tutorial:
http://dev.owen.vanderbilt.edu/ITEC/FrontPage2000_VisibleBooks.pdf
Tutorial on Using FrontPage to develop Web surveys
http://dev.owen.vanderbilt.edu/ITEC/WebSurvey.doc
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