Review: Best Online HTML tutorials

As I was scrapping the web for finding good sites which offer good learning chapters for learning HTML and 'helper' languages like jscript, CSS etc. I found the following four to be exceptionally good.

1.W3 Schools (www.w3schools.com)

Offers courses or chapters in HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL, PHP and JQuery. The site has good try it youself place where the person trying to learn something can see live results of his coding errors or for that matter coding successes.

http://www.w3schools.com/

Try it youself

Separate section for references in each language type that you want to learn helps in looking back to see some of the basic things to know for achieving something ridiculously simple. :)

Apart from providing online courses they also do certification. Certification for each course would cost $95 but thats an optional part. Just in case you want to show off your skills to the world on your CV.

2. Code Academy (http://www.codecademy.com)

Another great resource for learning online. I found it very very inractive and makes learning fun. I bet you would give it a try once you are on the home page itself. The course is about HTML and CSS and goes step by step once you sign up. You get addicted to the course flow. So be careful and enjoy your course at codeacademy.com

http://www.codecademy.com/

 Below is the pic of the training screen. You would need to explanation on the left panel and act accordingly on the right pane with the results of the HTML code that you entered begin displayed in a small white window inside the right panel.

Training window - www.codeacademy.com

 Do try both of them and let me know your experiences in the comments section below. Thanks for reading.

Curriculum Vitae or CV writing - 5 must includes

CV is a written format of oneself. Hence you should be very careful in what you are projecting about yourself. Your CV would stand as an instrument to reach to the recruiters and also serve as tool to keep track of your career.

I am here trying to bring out some of the most important areas that needs more focus and should be making an appearance on your CV in one form or other.

1. Your Objective:

Though some feel this obsolete. I would give it weight-age as it would give a high level picture of your personality. If the recruiter is a professional enough he would never miss a read for this section.

While writing you objective make sure you summarize your way of life and work.

For example: If you are a bold person who likes to take risks and have tasted success that way then... "Sharp focused, result oriented and go-get attitude towards the responsibility I undertake" would make more sense.

2. Your Hobbies:

Another section which is ignored always. Hobbies would give some insights to the personal life attitude of yourself. The recruiter would try to connect all of these sections in your CV to create a complete mental understanding of the candidate.

Hence enter activities/things under "Hobbies" which you are passionate and love doing in you life.

3. Roles and responsibilities:

Often I have seen resumes with 4 + pages with lengthy job responsibilities section for each prior jobs. I would strongly suggest to keep two things in mind while entering your previous employment details:

a. Keep it short, meaning keep each of the responsibility points short so that it would give you an opportunity to speak about them.
b. Only enter those responsibility pointers which make sense and are more meaningful.

4. Add a picture of yourself:

Adding a picture of yourself would be an extra detail which is lacks in most of the profiles. This gives an initial impression about the candidate to the recruiter.

5. Not to exceed two pages:

Always try to make sure that your Curriculum Vitae/CV as whole would not exceed two or maximum three pages. The recruiters interested dies if he sees a unreasonably long CV with huge amount of text in each sheet. He might not go through all of the details provided and may lose interest in you candidature. Hence keep it short and crisp.

Give yourself a chance to speak and paint picture verbally during the interview rather than trying to paint the whole career story in five pager CV

Some references:
vandelaydesign.com/blog/business/37-stylish-resume-templates/
bashooka.com/template/20-best-resume-templates/

Email etiquettes - tops 7 things to look for

We all write emails be it personal or professional. personal emails can still have some lenience as it is more often than not addressed to your dear ones.

But when it comes to business emails, you need to consider many things before you hit the send button.

Some of the important email etiquettes:

1. Make sure you are diplomatic and not harsh. Just imagine you are the person who is going to receive the email and draft the email. Not to miss on checking spellings as well (remember hitting F7 on MS Outlook would not find all the spelling mistakes).

2. Never commit for anything until or unless you have a sure shot approval or proof that you would be able to provide the requested content on time or you would be able finish a certain assignment on time. Remember your commitment on email is simply saying on a bond paper that you would complete the requirements within the stipulated time line.

3. When providing any sought of time lines always remember that you need to have week's buffer time and then decide the deadline date.

4. No bold letters or capitalized letters while writing a business email. As it would signify that you are unhappy about something.

5. All the things written in a business email is assumed to be well verified, hence do your homework/investigation thoroughly before writing something about something.

6. All get it reviewed if you are not sure of any content in the email (at least in the early days of the job you are doing). As this would serve as good practice so that you are polished better in shorter time frame.

7. No personal addressing come what may. Also do not use any sms-lingos or smiley's or anything that feels or gives an impression to the reader that you are trying to get more personal. (If you are trying to build a good rapport with the person whom you are writing email for, better get on a phone conversation as it is more verbal and would give you real time feedback of the opposite person)

8. Actually first but not the least, always begin an email with proper salutation and do not end without signing off.

Happy emailing!

Some references:

www.businessmarketingblog.org/effective-email-marketing-tactics/
www.verticalresponse.com/blog/9-emails-business-sending/