Summary: A positive attitude is essential on the job. When Florence receives a negative performance review, she is forced to confront her weaknesses. Using humorous vignettes in the present and in her childhood, Flo demonstrates why she's in trouble. With a little help from an unseen narrator, Flo recognizes that attitude, responsibility, and communication are the key to her success on the job and takes...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Video version. Viewers meet two young managers who help workers with appropriate responses to feedback in different work situations. Whether feedback is true, unclear, or downright false, we discover how to respond in a way that enables us to develop confidence, separate our reactions from our feelings, and learn from the situation. Using live-action video, the CD-ROM program guides the user...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The first day on the job-not to mention the first week or the first month-can be an overwhelming experience. This program empowers job seekers as well as new hires as they explore the issues surrounding what is invariably a major life change. Students are introduced to the preparations typically needed to survive, and possibly even enjoy, their first day. These include planning transportation...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The relationship between supervisors and support staff members can often run off the smooth road of productivity. The major reason for problems between supervisors and staff is a lack of effective, open communication. This program is a dramatization of one employee's problems with his supervisor. The information he receives from the company's personnel manager gets him on track with how to cope...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Show your students how to find great jobs fast-with the Internet. This video will tell them everything they need to know to start blazing an electronic path to outstanding career opportunities. It covers how to find and then effectively search mega-job sites, industry- or profession-specific sites, and individual company sites; how to prepare Web-ready and E-mail-compatible resumes and cover...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Is the hard part over once a person lands a job? No, the hard part has just begun! This program shows viewers not only how to survive on the job, but how to get ahead, too. Attitude, timeliness, dress, ethics, grooming, teamwork, conflict resolution, and getting along with co-workers are among the topics discussed in this video. Interviews with employers are interspersed with commonsense...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: A lot of people think the best way to keep a job is to just do what you are told. That is part of it, but not all of it, by far. Today's employers are looking for people who can truly contribute to the company-someone who can handle responsibility, be flexible, and adapt! This enlightening program explores common-sense rules to follow and exactly what employers are looking for in the next...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: It doesn't take a college education to realize that a college education is not for everyone. Careers Without College spells out some of the other options available to high school graduates. Through humorous scenes, objective narration, and interviews with real people, viewers follow fictional, average students as they explore the possibilities before them. This production examines some choices...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program illustrates how to relate interests, skills, education, training, values, and lifestyle to specific occupations in the world of work. Based on the commonsense notion that you do best at what you really like to do, this video shows viewers how to find an occupation with job requirements that closely match their interests. Nothing predicts high workplace satisfaction like a close...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This video illustrates how to evaluate career options based on the Three C's: content, conditions, and compensation. It expands on the Personal Career Profile and explains how to use information gathered from occupational research.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This video provides an extensive overview of the career development process, as well as introducing several people currently in the work force who will tell about their career choices, experiences, and successes throughout the series.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Changes in the world of work are examined in this video. It introduces three major areas of change-technology, globalization, and workforce demographics-as well as strategies for adapting, which are expanded in following episodes.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Career planning is an essential part of life development-and it can take place at any stage in one's professional life. Taking into account the constantly evolving job market and the continual changes occurring in higher education, this program helps viewers develop a career pathway plan that identifies three areas of interest and the ways each of them can be achieved, short-term and long-term....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The final episode of the Career Advantage series reviews several methods for remaining focused and positive while searching for work opportunities. It demonstrates ongoing self-assessments for building and managing a successful career, and emphasizes the development of one-year, ten-year, and lifetime goals.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: When the Elm Street Detectives Club needed a new clubhouse, Anna, Michael, and Erin decided to do it right-right after their cardboard hideout fell apart in the rain. In this informative, hands-on video, three preteens meet with a general contractor to get a taste of the basics of home construction and then, with his help, build themselves a real clubhouse. When they're done, the detectives...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This video focuses on how technology has changed work, and outlines basic concepts of how and where work can happen. Students are introduced to the principles of global business and the skills essential to stay employable in a global economy.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This video showcases Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver, a leader in sustainable home construction: its Family Services Department (Human Services Cluster); a solar panel company whose products are right at home with eco-friendly Habitat houses (Marketing Cluster); and ENERGY STAR, an EPA/DOE program that promotes energy-efficient products-the only kind HFH Metro Denver uses (Government and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Requiring several applicants to complete some kind of shared exercise, the group interview is designed to assess collaborative and team-building skills as well as personal initiative. This program helps students prepare for joint interview situations and the demands they make on applicants. Starting with one-on-one and group case studies to illustrate specific contrasts, the video explores...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This video illustrates how to access the hidden or unadvertised job market, guiding the development of a networking statement and presenting methods of seeking work, including cold calls, temporary assignments, and volunteer positions.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: o Airline Pilot * Architect * Bank Teller * Brick Layer & Stone Mason * Compositor & Typesetter * Correction Officer * Dental Hygienist * Drywall Applicator & Finisher * EKG Technician * Electrician * Firefighter * Forester & Conservationist * Geologist * Guard * Health Services Administrator * Hotel Clerk * Industrial Engineer * Insurance Agent & Broker * Jeweler * Kindergarten & Elementary...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Structured around a Bad Boss Quiz, this lively program asks some tough questions about managers while suggesting ways to deal with those who are less than perfect. In addition, a series of Boss Boot Camp segments spotlight a management coach assisting an up-and-coming hotel manager in determining his weak points as a boss and overcoming them. Commentary by Shaun Belding, author of Winning with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Strategies for the Interviewee helps viewers determine what types of jobs or careers they are most qualified for and what to expect during the interview. Strategies for the Interviewee goes further than just discussing typical "tell me about yourself" types of questions by preparing viewers for any style of interview. Emphasis is placed on the necessity of becoming familiar with new...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Whether you're just entering the work force, a recent grad, or changing careers, this program will help you develop strategies to find and keep a job in a challenging economy. Packed with examples and practical advice, the video features interviews with people in many different jobs and professions, as well as valuable tips from career counselors. Through their real-world experience and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Discusses the serious issues of professional etiquette in a comical fashion that will both entertain and instruct students and employees in the vital areas of etiquette and protocol. Prepares students for many different situations where a knowledge of professional etiquette will be essential. Includes inter-office etiquette, meeting protocol, introductions, dining etiquette, travel, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005