General Help and FAQ
Searching for vacancies
Click on search
Staff
A member of staff should log in by clicking on the STAFF LOGIN at the top left of the screen.
They will then have access to the staff pages and help.
General tips for browsing any web pages
Links
The normal format for links are blue underlined text - where ever you come across this in a web page
it will take you to a new web page or perform an action.
For the Online Recruitment System links are used for many purposes - To move to adverts, to download documents, to pop up help, etc.
Small viewing region
If you are having a problem with seeing all the screen at once, you may be viewing in low resolution -
if you cannot increase this for your viewing screen - you can try decreasing your browser's text size instead:
In Internet Explorer this is on the View menu -> Text size -> e.g. smallest
In Netscape / Mozilla this is on the View menu -> Decrease Font
(permanent setting at File -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts -> Size)
In Opera this is the Zoom drop down on the menu bar
(permanent setting at File menu -> Preferences -> Window -> Default Zoom -> e.g. 50%)
Another option to obtain more vertical space is to change the settings of your browser so
that the buttons at the top are either displayed simply as text or as smaller icons.
In Internet Explorer this is on the View menu -> Toolbars -> Customise
In Netscape / Mozilla this is available via Edit -> Preferences -> Appearance
By clicking on a page you are browsing and using the search facility of the browser you can find any specific word or phrase you are interested in that is on the page (though text within form text boxes is not searched).When you ar browsing through pages the usual shortcut for this is hold down the Control (Ctrl) key and hit F. A search box pops up.
When entering a number of paragraphs into a large input box you may want to spend sometime editing the text first. You can user your favourite text editor to compose the text.
When you are happy, select it (e.g. use Control and the A key - ctrl A) and then use the copy option (ctrl C).
Click in the input area of the web form and paste your text in with Edit -> Paste (ctrl V).
When choosing a value from a drop down list - it may be that the list will automatically alter parts of the following form -
To do this the whole page must be reloaded and on a slow system or internet connection, you may have to pause for a few seconds before proceeding.
If you have to choose from a long drop down list it will often be sorted alphabetically or numerically -
you can click in the list and then type a letter / number to jump to the location in the list where the entries start with this character.
Further key presses on the character should tab through all entries in the list that start with it.
Special Characters
Web pages are composed using HTML which in its simplest form only uses the standard ASCII character set.
In order to use a special character in a way that will display via the internet you need to use the character code and insert it within the text using the special character html number.
HTML special character entities are defined by the world wide web comitee at
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html
... so for example beta is defined as
<!ENTITY beta CDATA "β" -- greek small letter beta, U+03B2 ISOgrk3 -->
beta = β
β β β β
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