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: 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: 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: 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 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 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: 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: Building on the extremely popular First Look at Careers, this 2-part video set takes an alphabetic Second Look at Careers. We've taken 40 occupations from the Children's Dictionary of Occupations, and brought them to life using real people at work. Students learn about the tools of the trade and the tasks performed on the job. They hear from workers who will tell them how to prepare for each...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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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: This video focuses on the protection of Puget Sound-a national ecological treasure-through the efforts of Washington's Office of Shellfish and Water Protection (Health Science Cluster); a TV station that raises environmental awareness by reporting on the Sound (Arts, A/V Technology, and Communications Cluster); a nonprofit organization that educates the public about the Sound's ecosystem...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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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 program explores the diversity of opportunities available in the nonprofit sector, a part of the job market that includes advocacy groups, community organizations, and nongovernmental associations. Viewers meet three people who linked their passions to their careers: Damon landed an on-air position at a radio station, Gillian works with a sea-going eco-warrior group, and Erica has a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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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 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: 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