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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
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Summary: School is over and it's time to go out and get your dream job-but what is that, exactly? Determining a career choice, or a career path, is one of the hardest things to do in life. This video helps new graduates and beginning jobseekers clarify their professional goals and find jobs that fit their skills, passions, priorities, and long-term plans. Viewers learn how to use assessment...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This video divides its time between California, with an eco-friendly hotel (Hospitality and Tourism Cluster) and a sustainable information and communications technology consultancy (Information Technology Cluster), and the East Coast, with a firm that invests in green business development (Finance Cluster) and a manufacturer of chemical-free eco-friendly cleaning products (Business Management...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This video spotlights Pennsylvania, where a regional transportation authority is using hybrid buses to reduce emission levels (Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics Cluster), a legal firm is practicing environmental law (Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security Cluster), and a company is making storage batteries for solar and wind farms using clean manufacturing practices...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: With temporary and project-based employment becoming the norm, jobseekers need more than just a simple resume-they need to provide in-depth illustrations of their skills and experiences. This program shows how to create a strong impression with a potential employer by developing a career portfolio. Featuring insight from a career coach and a pair of hypothetical case studies, the film presents...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Books..articles..occupational dictionaries..even the Internet..offer a wealth of information about all kinds of careers. But the challenge is discovering how to tap into the various resources. Teens must learn how to set goals. Job shadowing, externships, internships, volunteer work, special classes, and summer jobs are just some of the important stops on the path to career preparation. But...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This video focuses on finding career options using both print and electronic sources of occupational information. Using key information categories, students develop approaches that will lead to strong and thorough research efforts.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Your Temperaments: Related to Work Situations is a fifteen-minute video which is part of the series, Career Guidance Videos.These five videotapes were developed for use with the CEPP Career Exploration and Assessment materials to deal with the topics of Career Exploration, Interests, Temperaments, Aptitudes, and Educational Planning. They also may be effectively used with other related Career...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This video points out distinctions and similarities between industries and functions. Several primary industries and job functions are described, giving students insight into types of work that they might enjoy.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: If you think that change is something that can be ignored, you're wrong. Change in the workplace, and every area of our lives, is inevitable. This program examines change in the workplace-why it's happening, what some people's reactions are to it, and how to cope to survive.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This informative and entertaining program shows how to use the telephone to optimize networking, informational interviewing, and other job search strategies. It shows how to add a personal touch to an Internet job search. Also covers the use of the Yellow Pages, developing a powerful phone script, setting up interviews, and developing extraordinary job referral networks. A terrific resource for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005