When you open a tool, a "Using" window pops open with instructions on how to use it. Simply click anywhere on this little window to hide it.
A sound or music file is attached to each "Using". You can customize the sound file you want. See Sound for details.
Pop-up Graphics
If your computer does not have a sound card, the Graphics folder will be loaded on installation. Graphic versions of the sounds will pop up when you click on areas that normally have sounds associated. You can turn these off by selecting Graphics under the Your Tools menu.
You can choose to not see the "Using" fields by selecting Show Using in the Your Tools menu. When a check mark is next to Show Using, the fields will show. When no check mark shows, the fields will not show up when selecting a new tool.
PRINTING
To print, choose Print Pages from the File menu or hit Control+ P.
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index
INDEX
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Accomplishments, Your see Progress
Active Leads see Progress
Adding your own entries see Database
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Budgeting Time & Money see Progress
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Calendar, Daily, Weekly, Yearly see Calendar
Calling see Calling
Contact History see Contacts
Customizing Sound see Sound
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Daily Calendar see Calendar
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Encouragement Nook see Learning
Entering your contacts see Contacts
Entering your criteria see Database
Evaluating Companies see Learning
Evaluating Yourself see Learning
Explanations for letters see Letters
Exporting to a word processor see Resume & see Letters
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Friends & Associates see Research
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Goals, Your see Progress
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Installing the program see Getting Started
The Intangibles see Learning
Interviews - tracking see Contacts
Interviewing see Interviewing
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Job Leads - tracking see Contacts
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Letters Palette see Letters
Libraries see Research
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Negotiating see Negotiating
Newspapers & Magazines see Research
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Online services see Research
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Researching a company see Research
Resume Palette see Resume
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Sound on and off See Sound
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To Do List see Progress
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Weekly Calendar see Calendar
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Yearly Calendar see Calendar
Your Accomplishments see Progress
Your Experiences see Learning
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DATABASE
Entering your criteria
Enter your criteria in the appropriate categories & click on Start Search. The program will search through all the entries. Then it will provide you with a list of all companies that meet your criteria.
Adding Your Own Entries
Your database comes with information on over 800 national companies. As you research companies in your target industry, you can also add your own entries into the database. When looking at an existing entry to the database, click on the button Add A Company. Follow the format instructions given.
e button Add A Company. Follow the format instructions given.
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CONTACTS
To start, enter the data for each of your contacts. You can hit Tab to move you through each of the fields for name, address and phone number.
1 - Contact History
When you talk with them, maintain a Contact History.
Each time you enter information to the Contact History, the name of the Contact is automatically posted to Contacts History category in Your Accomplishments for the current week. Your Accomplishments is located in the Progress tool.
2 - Job Lead
If a Contact develops into a job lead, click on Job Lead and enter your notes.
Each time you enter information to Job Lead, the name of the Contact is automatically posted to Job Lead category in Your Accomplishments for the current week.
3 - Interview
When the job lead turns into an interview, start to track it in Interview.
Each time you enter information to Interview, the name of the Contact is automatically posted to the Interview category in Your Accomplishments for the current week.
Note: watch your progress as a Contact's History (1) develops into a Job lead (2) and an Interview (3).
To Do
Enter specific upcoming tasks in To Do.
It is automatically posted to the appropriate day in your Daily Calendar and the master To Do List located in the Progress tool.
General Notes
Click on General Notes to record additional points about your conversations. Use the scroll bar to view additional notes that go below the window.
Sorting
You can Sort by Hot, Med. or Cold.
You can also sort by creating your own custom categories using words or numbers. Simply enter it in the field provided and choose Sort. Choose to sort by Category.
provided and choose Sort.
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CALENDAR
1- The Daily Calendar
Entries made in Appointments will post automatically to the Weekly Appointments.
Entries made in To Do in the Daily Calendar will post automatically to your master To Do list.
People to Call
This is a convenient place to note phone calls to be made. It does not post elsewhere.
2- Weekly Calendar
To see your week's schedule, click on Weekly Calendar.
3- Yearly Calendar
To see the calendar for the year, click on Yearly Calendar.
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research
RESEARCH
This section steps you through some major sources of information. It is largely self-explanatory. The major features are:
On-line Services
Libraries
Newspapers & Magazines
Friends & Associates
Researching A Company
Click on any of the five buttons for valuable sources of career information.
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Progress
YOUR PROGRESS
These tools help you to track your progress.
Your Goals
Set up your goals, both short term and long term.
Budgeting Your Time & Money
Plan the amount of time you can spend on your job search for the upcoming week. Budget the expenses you'll have in advance.
Your Accomplishments
Then watch the work you do in Contacts add up in Your Accomplishments.
To Do List
Keep track of things to be done in To Do List.
Active Leads
Watch which Job Leads and Interviews are active.
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Interview
INTERVIEWING
To practice interviewing, click on a letter. Listen to the question and then respond verbally. Keyboard in your response and print it out.
You can record your response using a tape recorder while reading your printed version. You can also use a recording device to enter your response into your computer and play it back.
Do a separate session for each interview you are going to, thinking out how to individualize your response to the particular company and its needs.
Don't just memorize the suggested responses included here and repeat them. They will sound rehearsed and stiff. Use these suggested responses as a starting point..
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Negotiate
NEGOTIATING
To practice negotiating, click on a letter. Listen to the question and then respond verbally. Keyboard in your response and print it out.
You can record your response using a tape recorder while reading your printed version. You can also use a recording device to enter your response into your computer and play it back.
Improving your ability as a negotiator is invaluable. People who work less hard or less effectively receive more for their efforts because of their skill in negotiating.
Don't just memorize the suggested responses included here and repeat them. They will sound rehearsed and stiff. Use these suggested responses as a starting point.
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CALLING
It is important to communicate quickly and powerfully on the telephone to potential employers.
Practice your calling technique. Don't sound rehearsed. Talk to each person as an individual. But have a clear understanding of the major points you want to get across in a very short time.
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LEARNING
The tools in this section are:
Evaluating Yourself
Study, think and become better informed.
Evaluating Companies
Who are the good companies and divisions to work for? Which companies' public reputations far outshine the reality of their true work environment?
Your Experiences
Learn from your experiences, especially the negative ones. Don't forget them as soon as they happen. Experiences give us insights as to how to handle future situations in smooth and powerful ways. Read other people's experiences and gain knowledge.
The Intangibles
These are factors that affect us, even though they are not obvious. Keep an eye on these.
Encouragement Nook
A humorous and warm place to go after a hard day's work searching for a job. Create your own real life Nook in your home.
The Origin of Work
An unusual look at how this all got started.
Ideas
Learn to nurture your ideas, whenever and wherever you have them. Write them down here in Ideas.
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Requires Windows 3.1.
Requires a hard drive with at least 3.5 megs of space to hold the Achieving files and the Masters Write files. An additional 3.5 megs is needed for the sound files. 500k is needed for the pop-up graphic files.
Installing the Program
To install the program onto your hard drive, double click on Install.exe on Disk 1 and let it install the program on the drive you select.
Personalization & Registration
On start up, type your name onto the screen to get the program running. Be sure to return the user registration card to hear about upgrades.
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Saving Your Work
SAVING YOUR WORK
Your work is saved automatically in Achieving Your Career except in the editable versions of your resumes and letters created in Windows Write.
When working on your resumes and letters, be sure to save your work. You will be reminded by a dialog box if you try to exit without saving first.
Backing up your work.
You should make a backup copy of your files periodically to protect against hard drive failure. Save all files you have worked in by copying or creating duplicates in a separate folder outside your Achieving folder.
You do not need to back up the Sounds folder.
IMPORTANT
Do not change the names of files in the working version Achieving folder. Do not add files with new names or variations of names. Any backups you make should be placed outside the Achieving folder. This is important as otherwise the program will be confused when it looks to activate a given tool.
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SOUND
You can turn the sound on or off by selecting it under the menu Your Tools. When you select it, you are given a choice of turning it on or off, or customizing the sounds that play.
When you select Customize, the program lets you decide which sound you want to hear when.
Random Sounds
You can customize or turn off Random Sounds in the Sound file. You can choose the sounds you want to hear and at what intervals you want to hear them.
Play Music First Time Only On Entering A Tool
When you select this in Customize Sound, you will only hear music the first time you select a given tool.
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Play Music First Time Only On Entering A Tool
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THE TOOLS
Acheiving Your Career provides you with eleven basic tools to help you in your career development and job search: Resume, Letters, Database, Contacts, Calendar, Research, Progress, Interview, Negotiate, Calling and Learning.
Each tool is an important part of a successful job search. Use your judgement as to how much time to spend working with each.
Your suggestions and comments are important to us.
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Resume
RESUME
On the opening page, start by reading Your Strategy. It talks about the different types of resumes.
Continue by reading The Elements. This will help you to focus on your resume's key elements. First is Job Objective, then Experience, Education, Skills, and Organizations.
Use Verb List when you need an action verb to spice up your accomplishments.
When you are ready to begin working on your resume, click on the button Resume Templates.
To create an editable version of a master resume template click on Edit this Resume.
The editable file will be placed in a new folder named My Files. It will open in Windows Write, the word processing program that is included with Windows. There you can access the tools that a word processor has, including tabbing and spell checking.
Be sure to save your work when you are finished working on your resume.
When you quit the Write file, you will return to Achieving.n Clipboard to put the entire contents of your resume in your Mac's clipboard. You then can paste it into your wordprocessor.
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LETTERS
On the opening page, read The Opening, The Body and Closing to focus on the important components of your letter.
Use Verb List when you need an action verb to spice up your accomplishments.
When you are ready to begin working on your letters, click on the Letter Templates button.
Click on the letter you are interested in.
When the letter you have selected appears, you will see a help screen that explains some of that letter's specific features. Click on that help screen to close it and start work on your letter.
To create an editable version of a master letter template, click on Edit this Letter.
The editable file will be placed in a new folder named My Files. It will open in Windows Write, the word processing program that is included with Windows. There you can access the tools that a word processor has, including tabbing and spell checking.
Be sure to save your work when you are finished working on your letter.
When you quit the Write file, you will return to Achieving.essor and paste the copy in by choosing Command + Paste from that program's Edit menu.
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