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- CAREER PATH MANUAL
- by
- AMERICAN INSTITUTE
- 4566 Catalina Drive
- San Jose, CA 95129
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- Introduction 1
- Disclaimer 2
- ShareWare Ombudsman Program 2
- ShareWare 2
- Registration 3
- ShareWare Distributors 3
- Hardware Requirements 3
- Installation Instructions 4
- Technical Support 4
- Operating Instructions 4
- Required Files 6
- Conclusion 6
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- INTRODUCTION
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- Career Path is a comprehensive career selection and planning
- system designed to help you answer the questions "Who am I" and
- "What career would I like best?". Career Path will help you
- decide on the career that best suits you.
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- Career Path prints out a seven page report that lists a composite
- of your interest, abilities, values, capacities, personality
- profile, along with IQ score, entrepreneur ability score, value
- inventory, and environmental value preference. Based on these
- factors, a customized list of 20 to 40 careers is provided from
- an initial data base of over 22,000 jobs.
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- With the aid of the automatic evaluation form, this list of
- careers is further refined to the one or two careers that best
- corresponds to you as an individual.
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- Advance Career Path Plus
- The advance Career Path Plus version will provide many addition
- tools and insight into helping you get the career that you will
- want. Career Path Plus will you answer the questions "How can I
- best get the career I want?" Career Path Plus will help you
- decide on the career and employer that best suits you, and will
- show you how best to land the job you want.
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- After you have determined the career path you want to pursue
- through the help of Career Path, you will learn the best way to
- approach the market and how best to communicate with prospective
- employers. Career Path Plus will provide guidance in preparing
- customized resumes, cover letters, thank you letters, and will
- show you how best to prepare for interviews.
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- DISCLAIMER
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- American Institute has made extensive effort to assure the
- accuracy of the information provided, but because of the
- complexity of each individual, this product is sold "as is" and
- without warranties as to performance or content or any other
- warranties whether expressed or implied. The user must assume the
- complete responsibility for the use and interpretation of the
- information provided by this program. American Institute assumes
- no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may
- result from the use of this program.
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- SHAREWARE OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM
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- American Institute is an approved vendor and associate member of
- the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to
- make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are
- unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member
- by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The
- ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an
- ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members'
- products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road,
- Muskegon, MI 49442-9427 USA, FAX 616-788-2765 or send a Compuserve
- message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536.
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- SHAREWARE
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- Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software
- before buying it. If you try a Shareware program and continue
- using it, you are expected to register.
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- Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software,
- and the copyright holder retains all rights. Shareware authors
- are accomplished programmers, just like commercial programmers.
- The main difference is in the method of distribution.
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- Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software.
- The Shareware system makes fitting your needs easier, because you
- can try before you buy. And because the overhead is low, prices
- are also lower. Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee,
- if you don't use the product, you don't pay for it.
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- Career Path is a "shareware program" and is provided at no
- charge to the user for an evaluation period. Feel free to share
- it with your friends, but it may not be given away altered or as
- part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software
- is to provide personal computer users with quality software
- without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers
- to continue to develop new products.
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- REGISTRATION
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- If you find this program useful, it should be registered.
- After a trial period, the license to use Career Path is withdrawn
- and it may not legally be used without first registering it.
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- The $29 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one
- computer at any one time. This software may be moved from one
- computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility
- of it being used at one location while it's being used at another.
- In the same way that a book cannot be read by two different people
- at the same time, this program may not be used by two different
- people at the same time.
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- Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting American
- Institute.
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- You are encouraged to pass a copy of Career Path along to
- your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register
- their copy if they find it useful. All registered users will
- receive a copy of the latest version of the Career Path
- system.
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- Registration
- A registration form (Register.Doc) may be easily printed by your
- word processor or you can print a registration form within
- Career Path. From the main opening menu, prepare your
- printer for printing and push F10.
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- SHAREWARE DISTRIBUTORS
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- Anyone distributing Career Path for any kind of remuneration
- must first contact American Institute for authorization. This
- authorization will be automatically granted to distributors
- recognized by the (ASP) and such distributors may begin offering
- Career Path immediately. However American Institute must
- still be advised so that the distributor can be kept up-to-date
- with the latest version of Career Path.
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- HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
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- Career Path requires:
- 1. IBM PC or compatible computer
- 2. DOS 3.x or later is recommended
- 3. A hard disk with 650K of available space
- 4. A minimum of 540K random access memory
- 5. Either a color or monochrome monitor
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- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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- Career Path contains an installation file that automatically
- loads itself and has you up and running in about 60 seconds.
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- HARD DISK Installation
- 1. Put the Career Path disk into disk driver A: or B:. If
- the drive is a 5 1/4", be sure to close the drive door.
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- 2. Type either A: or B:, depending on the drive used, and then
- push the Enter key.
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- 3. Type install then push the Enter key.
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- 4. The first installation window will ask you if you want to
- continue with automatic installation. To continue, push the
- Enter key. The installation program will make a subdirectory
- called \CAREER on your C: drive, and will load all programs
- and files automatically into the subdirectory.
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- Manual Installation
- For manual installation, create a subdirectory, copy Ins.exe to
- subdirectory, and run Ins.exe. Ins.exe is a self extracting
- program that will extract all programs and files. Run set_Util
- for the initial set-up of Career Path.
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- TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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- Technical support is available FREE of charge to registered owners
- for a period of 90 days after registering Career Path with:
- American Institute, 4566 Catalina Drive, San Jose, CA 95129
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- OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
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- Career Path is a very user friendly program that will quickly
- and easily guide you. Where additional help may be needed, help
- screens (F1) have been included.
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- STARTING Career Path
- From the main or root directory of your C: drive, type in
- cd\career and push the Enter key to change to the subdirectory
- Career. To start Career Path, CAREER and push the Enter key.
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- STARTING Career Path WITH WINDOWS
- Career Path may be run from Windows in the stand-alone mode.
- After starting Windows, select File, select Run, enter program
- path. C:\Career\Career To shift between programs in the Window
- environment, push the Shift key and the Esc Key together, then
- select the desired program. Remember, as Career Path is running
- in the stand-alone mode, if you push the Esc key from the main
- menu, you will terminate Career Path and have to start-over with
- File and Run to run it again.
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- Note: The database will not load if you have insufficient memory
- available.
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- MAIN MENU BAR
- Career Path opens with the main menu bar. The menu choices
- are: Intro, Test & Report, Selecting Your Career, Getting Your
- Career, and Utilities. Either push the large red letter of your
- desired selection or use the left and right arrows to move the
- highlight bar to the desired selection and then push the Enter
- key. Additional selections are offered at the bottom of the
- screen. They are: Help-F1, Calender-F3, and Database-F5. Two
- additional selections that are not shown is Version-F9, and Print
- Registration Form-F10 (for unregistered version). The Esc key
- normally returns you from any section of the program to the main
- menu bar and will also exit Career Path with one additional push.
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- The following is a short summary of each of the main menu bar
- selection options.
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- Intro - Introduction
- A quick explanation of the steps to follow with Career Path for
- the best possible results.
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- Test & Report
- Select this selection to take your personal interest survey. It
- is best to take this survey when you have a little more than one
- relaxed hour available and you are rested. After printing the
- survey results, the program will return you to the main menu bar.
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- Selecting Your Career
- Simply follow the instructions and progress one item at a time
- down the submenu. The Weighted Career Evaluation section is the
- cumulative combination of all of the preceding sections. This
- section helps you narrow all listed career choices from the survey
- down to just one or two careers.
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- From the weighted evaluation form, push the F8 key to customize
- the form. Enter a weighted figure of 1 (lowest) to (9 (highest)
- to indicate how important each of the 32 items is to you. The
- first six weighted figures are listed on page 6 of your written
- report. As these figures are based on a range of 0 to 100, you
- will need to divide the figures by 10 before entering them. Push
- Q to save your figures. These figures may be changed any time by
- pushing the F8 key again from the weighted evaluation form.
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- the second part of the weighted evaluation form consists of
- entering a figure of 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest) based on your
- evaluation of how well the career satisfies each item.
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- The weighted grand total is listed at the bottom of the screen.
- Repeat the valuation for each career that you want to evaluate.
- The higher the score, the better it matches your individual wants
- and needs.
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- Getting Your Career (Active with advance registered version)
- After reviewing the section introduction, select the second item
- from the submenu to print needed forms. Continue selecting the
- submenu choices in the order presented. The database is used to
- keep track of whom you have contacted and who you still need to
- contact.
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- Utilities
- The utility screen has its own menu bar with the following
- selections.
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- Help
- Help screen for utility selections
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- Color
- Offers 40 color combination choices
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- Explosion Speed
- Offers control of the rate that windows open (explode) and close.
- The new explosion rate will become effective after Accounting
- Helper is exited and reloaded.
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- Scroll Speed
- Offers control of the rate that text scrolls when the arrow keys
- are being used within a window.
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- REQUIRED FILES
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- After installing Career Path, the following files should be
- in the c:\accthelp subdirectory.
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- Career.exe Main Career Path program
- Career.bat Used to start Career Path from the root directory
- Insightd.* 5 different database files
- Ins*.r 6 Data files
- In*.frm 11 Form files
- In*.Ins 15 Instructional files
- Ins* 18 Character files
- Set_Util.exe Program to set Career Path's utilities
- Career.man This manual
- Readme.1st A short introduction/start-up requirement file
- Register.Doc Registration Form
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- CONCLUSION
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- We are always interested in improving out products, if you have
- any suggestions, please drop us a line with your comments and
- suggestions.
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- American Institute
- 4566 Catalina Drive
- San Jose, CA 95129
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- If Career Path is of value to you, please register it.
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- Thank you for letting us be of service.
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