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Pbs: Career Connections: Public Relations Specialist
Walk alongside a communications professional and learn how she enjoys helping clients promote their companies, products and events.
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Pbs: Career Connections: Lean Manufacturing Manager
Watch this video to hear from a young manager as he discusses his journey and role in a major U.S. company. [5:15]
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Pbs: Career Connections: Product Designer
See how a product designer for the health-care industry manufactures antimicrobial fabrics. Studying marketing and customer service is helpful.
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Pbs: Career Connections: Auto Factory Worker
The automobile manufacturing industry has three exciting fields in which a student can specialize: performing the actual assembly of a vehicle, putting together its exterior shell and interior frame, and painting and sealing the body.
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Pbs: Career Connections: Advertising Director
Listen to the founder and president of an advertising, design, and marketing agency talk about his work. [4:10]
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Pbs: Career Connections: Developmental Disabilities Worker
This video features a day in the life of a community training supervisor. Watch as she helps find individuals with developmental disabilities employment. [4:46]
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Pbs: Language Arts: Resources for Adult Educators: Led and Lead
A copy editor explains the difference between the homonyms led and lead.
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Pbs: Dropping Back In: The Cost of Dropping Out: Ron Ferguson
Dr. Ron Ferguson describes the current and future costs in America of having an undereducated population. He argues the need for career guidance for secondary students that includes options other than a four-year college degree.
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Khan Academy: Work Life Balance and Parental Leave
Brechael talks about work-life balance as an educator and taking time off as a new mom.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Seeing Trends
Employees in the transportation and logistics industries explain how charting data over time allows them to see trends and make better decisions about using resources.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Punctuality
A workplace trainer and employees in the healthcare and transportation industries explain how being on time in a work environment is important for productivity and safety.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Asking Questions
Employees, employers, and a workforce trainer describe how asking questions on the job can help you improve and impress employers by demonstrating your willingness to learn.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Problem Solving
Problem solving is a key aspect of many kinds of jobs. Employees and managers in several industries give examples of problem solving in the workplace.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Learning on the Job
Many hiring managers are looking for someone who is willing to learn new skills and be adaptable, and learning on the job can benefit employees throughout their careers.
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Khan Academy: My Budget and Planning for the Future
Brechael shares the details of her income and expenses, as well as her financial goals.
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Pbs: Nova Science Now: Luis Von Ahn: Computer Scientist
In this video meet Luis von Ahn, a computer scientist and a professor at Carnegie Mellon who had a most successful idea-CAPTCHA-a test that humans can pass but computers cannot, which has been used to improve the security of Internet...
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Pbs: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Are We Alone?
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Reading at Work
In any job, being able to read and understand information helps employees succeed. In the transportation and logistics industries, workers read contracts, schedules, and industry information.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Organizing Your Writing
A customer service representative at a logistics company explains the steps he takes to prepares to write an email to a customer.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Multiplying and Dividing
Employees in the transportation and logistics industries give examples of how they use multiplication and division every day in their jobs.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Knowing Your Audience
A customer service representative explains how the language you use in an email to customers may be different from the language you use in messages to coworkers or friends
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Respecting Your Team Members
Employees describe the importance of treating coworkers with respect and working well with people of diverse backgrounds and ages.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Entering Information Accurately in Construction
In the construction industry, forms are often used to keep track of orders, supplies and inventory, and maintenance records.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Adding and Subtracting
In the construction industry, being able to make calculations like adding and subtracting is an important part of many jobs.