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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Solving Problems in the Field

For Students 10th - 12th
Employees in the information technology industry use math to solve problems in their daily jobs, like how much server space is needed for certain applications.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Writing for Different Audiences

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
When you write for work, it is important to consider who your audience is and what they need to know.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: The Writing Process in It

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
People in the information technology industry write for work for many reasons therefore, it helps to have a strong writing process.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Planning Written Communication

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
When you write something for work, planning is an important first step and should include what do you want to say, who is your audience, and what is your format.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Conflict Resolution

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
A manager and an employee explain the importance of communication and seeing issues from another person's perspective in order to quickly and effectively resolve conflicts in the workplace.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Bits, Bytes, Megabytes

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Employees in the information technology industry have a good sense of how data is measured, from bits to bytes to megabytes and terabytes.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Reading Reference Materials

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Employees in the transportation and logistics industries read manuals and other reference items to learn procedures and look up information they need to know to be successful on the job.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Entering Information Accurately in Transportation

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Employees at a warehouse and shipping company explain how they are careful to enter information accurately into forms to make sure that orders are correct and go to the right place, keeping customers happy and their jobs moving smoothly.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Check Your Understanding

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Employees in the transportation and logistics industries read important information like safety manuals, operating instructions and packing slips. When you're reading for work, it's important to make sure you understand what you are...
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Grouping and Sorting Packages

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Employees explain how they use the mathematical concept of grouping and sorting every day in their jobs in the logistics and transportation industries.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Using Area to Solve Problems

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Employees working in the field give examples of when they use formulas like area to solve problems such as understanding the sizes of packages and pallets.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Finding Area

For Students 10th - 12th
Determining area is critical to many jobs in the construction industry. Workers use a formula to find the area of roofs and floors and solve other important problems on the job.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: The Writing Process in Construction

For Students 10th - 12th
In the construction industry, written communication may be used to document things that happened or need to happen, make orders, and ask and answer questions. To write effective messages, follow a proven process for writing.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Interviewing

For Students 10th - 12th
Managers and employees in fields like healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing explain why it's important to make a good first impression at a job interview and give some tips for preparing for one.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Time Management

For Students 10th - 12th
Employees and managers in various industries explain why good time management skills make your work easier, safer, and more productive.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Using English Measurement

For Students 10th - 12th
From server storage to fiber internet cable length, understanding measurements is an essential information technology workplace skill.