FAU Libraries Media Center - Videographies, Careers

VH 0223 Campus Interview
Summary: Gives tips on improving interviewing skills. 014 Min. VIDEO 1987

VH 0089 Career Education
Summary: Designed to improve and expand a teacher's skills to facilitate main streaming of exceptional children into the regular classroom. Scenes of Mark Twain on the river and high school students in a classroom demonstrate that career education is a process of developing attitudes to encourage decision making and build positive self-image. 024 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: TEACHER EDUCATION, EXCEPTIONAL STUDENT EDUCATION

VH 2772 Career Encounters/Advanced Practice Nursing
Summary: Advanced practice nurses (APNs) are helping to provide the much needed primary and managed care services that have become less accessible due to rising medical costs and the increased complexity of treatment. They have become our nation's community based health practitioners. 030 Min. VIDEO 1994

VH 7629 Careers In Mathematics
Summary: Video aids in addressing many issues which mathematical scientists encounter when pursuing a career outside of academia. The careers of such people are explored via on-site interviews at job sites, beneficial course preparation, and typical problems that mathematicians work on in industry, business, and government. 026 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: MATHEMATICS Series: THE SLOAN CAREER CORNERSTONE SERIES

VH 0130 CIA and Its People, The
Summary: Recruitment video. 020 Min. VIDEO Subject: CRIMINOLOGY

VH 4094 Connected: Careers for the Future
Summary: This program brings you into the workplaces and introduces you to some remarkable people who have been able to carve out their own futures, and in many cases to create their own careers. You will learn about their high school and college education, internships, foreign language training, the work they are doing now and the mentors who helped them on their way. 030 Min. VIDEO 1997

VH 0102 Corporate Careers for Humanities Graduates
Summary: Recruitment video. 028 Min. VIDEO

VH 6414 Crossing the Divide: Creating a High-Tech Work Force
Summary: One of a four-part series that examines the effects of technology in the classroom. This segment looks at skills and education needed for tomorrow's workforce to prosper in the global marketplace of the future. Profiles the Travis Communications Academy, Silicon Valley's Monta Vista High School, and the New Technology High School, "the school that business built"-schools that stress the value of critical thinking and teamwork as the building blocks of success. Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Irving, and others discuss issues such as the school-to-work movement and universal Internet access. Includes comments from students and teachers. 058 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: COMPUTERS, DECISION & INFORMATION SYSTEMS Series: DIGITAL DIVIDE

VH 5616 How to Find and Keep a Job
Summary: Expert advice on how to land a job and to manage a career: a hiring manager shows why an applicant is chosen for an interview, career counselors discuss the secrets of successful interviewing, and shows what factors besides education and intelligence are critical to career success. 030 Min. VIDEO 1996 Series: NATIONAL MAGAZINE

VH 7593 Looking for Leaders in the Information Age
Summary: Describes the many career opportunities available in library and information science and highlights the important roles of information professionals in both traditional and non-traditional settings. Profiles library and information professionals as they talk about their careers in the information age. 008 Min. VIDEO 2001

VH 7592 Me? A Librarian?
Summary: Position yourself for success by considering becoming a librarian/information specialist. Young people present their ideas of librarians, and librarians discuss what they like about their jobs. 010 Min. VIDEO 1998

VH 1379 National Center for Paralegal Training
Summary: Recruitment video. 030 Min. VIDEO

VH 3004 Networking Your Way to Success
Summary: Networking - making connections that count - is your pathway to personal and professional success. No matter where you want to go, you can create a network that will help you get there - and open up a lifetime of satisfaction, fun, and profit. This lively and informative video gives you invaluable networking insights, guidelines, and techniques - from breaking the ice in social situations to improve your on the job performance. 028 Min. VIDEO 1991

VH 5866 Success in the Library Workplace: You Have the Power
Summary: This session examines strategies that all library workers can use for being successful in the workplace. Among the topics to be considered are developing a portfolio, preparing for the performance appraisal, managing your boss, motivation and rewards. 090 Min. VIDEO 1999

VH 5873 Terry Cognita's Work Abroad
Summary: Introduces the fundamentals of intercultural awareness through scenarios of presentations, negotiations and meetings set in major world markets. 033 Min. VIDEO 1998

VH 5330 Web Resumes
Summary: This program examines Web resumes and various resume alternatives and offers advice on leveraging these nontraditional formats to greatest advantage. Topics explored include resumes posted on the World Wide Web, how to create one and how to get it noticed; the "creative" resume, such as a self-promotion video, and the types of jobs for which it works best; and the targeted resume, in which information is tailored to fit the desired position. 028 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMPUTERS