How To Make a Good First Impression at Job Interviews

While most everyone is aware that you should dress well and appear well-groomed for a job interview, there are other steps that will help you to make the best impression possible. The five steps below can help you know how to make a good first impression at job interviews.


1. Use a firm handshake when greeting your interviewer. When you meet your interviewer, make sure to greet him with a firm handshake because a limp handshake will leave a weak impression. There is a psychology to first impressions and interviewers pay close attention to everything about you. How you shake an interviewer's hand may sound like a trivial thing but interviewers with companies offering employment will tell you that a firm handshake is far more impressive to them than a "limp-fish" handshake. A firm handshake will be one of your most important interview techniques.

2. Look your interviewer in the eye. Eye contact also makes a big difference in how you are perceived by an interviewer. By looking your interviewer in the eye, you demonstrate confidence in yourself, plus you are making him aware that you are listening closely to what he says. This also tells him that you have good communication skills, will take instruction well and are a willing learner. If you look away while an interviewer is talking to you, this will leave an impression that you are a timid person rather than a person of confidence.

3. Rehearse answers to questions you may be asked. Most interviewers will ask you general questions in regard to your interest in working for their company and so it is a good idea to consider any questions they might ask you ahead of time and rehearse your answers in advance. Some of the key questions an interviewer might ask may include ones in regard to why you feel you are suited for the position you are applying for. They may also ask you what you know about their company and the types of products or services they offer. If you are asked such questions and seem to not know much about them and their products, this can leave a weak impression. Demonstrating knowledge about their company and expressing it in an interested and excited way leaves a far better impression.

4. Ask interested questions about the company and express your interest and excitement in working for the company. Make your interviewer aware that you have learned about his company and would be excited to work for the company. Ask questions about rewards for hard steady work, such as opportunities for advancement for accomplished employees. Express interest in learning everything possible and ask questions about the training program (such as what products and services you will be trained in). Questions you should avoid asking (and let the interviewer volunteer the information) would be questions such as how vacation time and sick leave are earned or how much insurance coverage the benefits package contains. Your interviewer will inform you of these particulars.

5. Leave the interview by expressing appreciation to your interviewer for taking time with you and reaffirm your interest in the position. Make sure you tell your interviewer that the time spent with her was interesting and informative and that you appreciate her taking time with you. This is also the time to give her another firm handshake before you leave the interview. Also express that you hope to hear from her soon and that she can reach you at her convenience. It can also impress an interviewer to hear the prospective employee express to her that he feels he could do a great job and would be grateful for an opportunity to show how well he would do as an employee.

These are steps that can increase your chances of being hired. Having a positive and confident attitude are key factors in making these steps work for you.

How to use uTorrent

Instructions


Step1 - Go to uTorrent.com and click the "Download" button.

Step2 - Select the preferred client type of uTorrent to download it to your computer. The suggested one is the stand-alone version. If you are a computer novice, it might be best to use the installation program version.

Step3 - Install the program. If you downloaded the stand-alone version, extract the executable to a preferred location on your computer.

Step4 - Run uTorrent. It is best to maximize the program window if it does not begin in maximized form. This way you can more easily view the large amounts of information the program displays.


Download Torrent Files

Step1 - Browse to a site that serves torrent files and peruse their list to find a file you want to download.

Step2 - Click the link that provides you with the .torrent file. This file type will be recognized by uTorrent if you've set the option for it to do so. If it is not opened automatically by uTorrent, then save the .torrent file to your hard drive.

Step3 - Run uTorrent and click "Add Torrent..." from the File menu. Select the .torrent file you saved in the previous step. The download item should appear in the main window. Once the program has found peers that are serving the file, it will begin downloading the file to your computer.


Creating and Uploading Torrents


Step1 - Make sure the file you want to serve to the public is valid, playable (if it is a media file) and does not contain viruses or other malicious programs. It should also be a file that is legal to share with others. (Unless you can handle the lawyers!)

Step2 - Run uTorrent and select the file you wish to share in the "Select Source" box. It is best to provide tracker URLs. These will be the URLs of sites where you want your .torrent file to be uploaded. The site where you downloaded your first torrent files is a good one to use.

Step3 - Check the "Start Seeding" box if you want your uTorrent client to start uploading the file to the network once peers connect to you. If you don't do this, the file won't propogate to the Torrent network.

Tutorial: HTML Frames

What Frames Are

Frames is one of the newer features of HTML which is only implemented on the newest browsers (Netscape 2.0 and higher, and the new Internet Explorers, and many others) which allows a single browser window to be divided into multiple sections, each with an independent HTML page loaded inside it, and these HTML pages can interact with each other. Each page loaded within each section of the frames window is a separate HTML document.

Example of the Code to a Simple Frames Page

html>
head>title>testing frames...< /title>< /head>
frameset cols="25%,75%">
frameset>
frame src="test.html" name="indexbar">
/frameset>
frameset>
frame src="main.html" name="main">
/frameset>
/frameset>
noframes>
This page requires a frames-capable browser... please get one!
/noframes>
/html>

The frames page itself, in most cases, does not actually contain any content, all content is placed on the separate HTML pages loaded within each frame (section.) Instead, the frames page acts as a guide, defining which page to be loaded into each frame, and the frame attributes themselves. As you may have noticed, a frames page closely resembles a normal HTML page, except that the body is replaced with frameset, and an additional noframes tag is added.


Using The Frameset Tag

The frameset tags are used to define the characteristics of the frames and the noframes tags are used to define what a browser that is not frames-enabled will see. Because the frameset tags are ignored by a non-frames browser, anything within the noframes tags will be considered a normal HTML page. So, after the <> tag should be placed the <> tag, and then any content and tags, then concluded with the < /body> tag, followed by the < /noframes> tag. The noframes content will not be seen by someone using a frames-enabled browser unless they choose 'view source'.

The frameset tag will be used multiple times throughout a single frames page. The first frameset tag is used to define the number of separate frame columns within the browser window and what width each of those windows will be. The next set of frameset tags will be used to define how many frame rows will be in the browser window and each one's height. The row attribute is set separately for each column. For example, your first column may have 4 frames and your second column may have 2 frames, etc. There is no specific limit on the number of frames you may have within a single browser window but you must realize that your page will be viewed in different resolutions, from 640 x 480 pixels to 1024 x 768 pixels and greater. Good advice is to limit your page to no more than 4 frames within a single browser window.


Defining Columns

The first frameset tag should read:

frameset cols="SIZE_OF_COLUMN_1,SIZE_OF_COLUMN_2,ETC">.

This first tag will be closed with a < /frameset> tag but only after the frameset rows for each column are also defined. The SIZE_OF_COLUMN can be one of three numbers:

* x% - each column is set by a percent of the available browser window. (x is a number from 1 to 100)

* x - each column is set by a fixed pixel amount. (not recommended, because pixel widths vary depending on the viewer's resolution) (x is any number)

* * - the * tells the browser to use all available space that is left for this column.

So, a frameset reading < cols="20%,80%"> would mean that the first column is the browser window will take up 20% of the browser window's width and that the second column will take up 80% of the total browser's width. Another example is < cols="120,*"> in which the first column is exactly 120 pixels wide and the second column takes up all remaining width. Only one column is required and there is no limit on how many columns can be defined.


Defining Rows

Within the column defining frameset opening and closing tag are the row defining frameset tags. The number of row defining frameset tags is directly dependent on the number of columns defined in the column defining frameset tag. If there are two columns defined, there will be two separate row defining frameset tags. If three columns are defined, there will be three row defining frameset tags.

The row frameset tag should read:

frameset rows="SIZE_OF_ROW_1,SIZE_OF_ROW_2,ETC">.

The SIZE_OF_ROW is defined almost identically to the SIZE_OF_COLUMN... x% is the percent of available browser height, x is a defined pixel value in height, and * is all remaining space. Rows are defined top to bottom, and Columns are defined left to right.


Defining Frames

Within each row frameset tag comes the frame tag, which defines which page is to be loaded in that frame and a few attributes on that frame. The simple frame tag reads:

frame src="document_to_load.html">, where document_to_load is the name of the web page that is to be loaded in that frame, and the frame tag has no closing tag. The frame tag has some other useful attributes:

* SCROLLING="yes|no|auto" - This defines if the frame has a scroll bar or not. By default the frame sets scrolling to auto, which means the browser determines if a scroll bar is needed. If set to yes, the frame will always have a scroll bar, and if set to no, the frame will never have a scroll bar.

* NORESIZE - this attribute states that the user should not be able to resize the frame. By default the user is able to resize all frames within the browser window.

* NAME="x" - this attribute defines the name of the frame, which is used to target pages to be loaded in that frame, which will be explained later. (x is any alphanumerical combination)

If you want scrolling to be disabled, just use the code:
frame src="document_to_load.html" SCROLLING="no">
or if you want resizing to be disabled just use the code:
frame src="document_to_load.html" NORESIZE>


Example of a Complex Frames Page

html>
head>
title>testing complex frames< /title>
/head>
frameset cols="33%,33%,33%">
frameset rows="*,100">
frame src="page1.html" NAME="index">
frame src="page2.html" NORESIZE>
/frameset>
frameset>
frame src="main.html" NAME="main">
/frameset>
frameset rows="50%,50%">
frame src="page3.html">
frame src="page4.html" SCROLLING="no">
/frameset>
/frameset>
noframes>body>
This page requires a frames-enabled browser!
/body>/noframes>
/html>



Using the TARGET Attribute

What if you have a page in one frame with a link but, when the user clicks the link, you want it to be loaded into one of the other frames you defined? This is what the TARGET attribute is for. The TARGET attribute is part of the <> tag. The <> tag used with the TARGET attribute reads:

a href="page_to_load.html" TARGET="target_frame">text< /a>

Where page_to_load.html is the name of the file which should be loaded in the frame, target_frame is the defined name you gave to the frame that you wish the link to load into, and text is the anchored text of the link. If you link without a target, the linked page will load into the current frame. There are also a few other special magic targets which can be used where target_frame is:

* TARGET="_blank" - link is loaded into a new blank browser window.

* TARGET="_self" - link is loaded into frame that link was clicked in.

* TARGET="_top" - link is loaded into current full browser window and all frames disappear, leaving the new page to have the entire window.




Your Own HTML Page

Add the following to your HTML page ("home.html"): (the red text is what to add)

Create a new file, called "frames.html" which contains the following:

html>
head>
title>My Home Page/title>
/head>

< !-- The page will have one row with two columns, one row with one column -->
< !-- The first frameset defines the rows: two rows, the second one is narrower -->
frameset rows="85%,15%">

< !-- The second frameset defines the columns in the first row -->
frameset cols="15%,85%">
< !-- Specify the two files to display in the first row -->
< !-- The first file will contain an index for your home pages -->
frame src="indexbar.html" name="indexbar">
< !-- The second file is home.html: the file you have been working on so far -->
frame src="home.html" name="mainframe">
/frameset>

< !-- Specify the file to display in the second row -->
< !-- This file contains copyright information -->
frame src="copyright.html" name="copyright">
/frameset>

< !-- Define what to display to browsers which aren't frames-capable -->
noframes>
This page requires a frames-capable browser
/noframes>
/html>

Create another new file, called "indexbar.html", which contains the following:

html>
body background="bgnd.gif">
< !-- The index page contains links to the main home page and a feedback page -->
< !-- Those pages will load into the "main" target -->
a href="home.html" target="mainframe">Home< /a>
a href="feedback.html" target="mainframe">Feedback< /a>
/body>
/html>

Create yet another new file, called "copyright.html" which contains the following:

html>
body background="bgnd.gif">

< !-- The copyright page contains copyright information for your web pages -->
center>Copyright © 2006 YOURNAME's Web Page Development< /center>
/body>
/html>

Create an essentially blank file, called "feedback.html". We will complete this file later.

html>
body background="bgnd.gif">
/body>
/html>

Save the text file as "home.html".