This innovative package offers practical interview skills development for young people looking to gain entry to the workforce for the first time, those seeking a change in employment or students arranging work experience. Role plays are used to demonstrate how to best answer questions and make the most of the interview opportunity. The program features interviews with a range of industry professionals who provide advice on such topics as personal presentation, body language, the expectations of employers, researching the company and communication skills. Teachers’ notes accompany the program.
Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)
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Making Your Presentation
This program has been prepared specifically to help young people overcome their nerves and fears in going public and make a presentation that is entertaining and rewarding. Students are introduced to some of the techniques used by professional presenters, including planning and researching your topic, writing and timing your presentation, using confident body language, eye contact and voice and using visual aids and handouts. This is “must see television” for any young person facing the prospect of making a presentation.
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Using Computers Safely
Now that computers are an integral part of our working and recreational lives, several health problems have emerged including: Repetitive strains; Back pain; The socio-health problems related to lack of exercise and reduced inter-personal communication. Most, if not all, of these problems appear to be preventable, provided a few basic rules are followed. In this program we show healthy ways to use computers, including laptops, and the exercises which help to prevent health problems developing.
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The Nature of Workplace Communication
In this first program in VEA’s Workplace Communications Series, we look at what is communication in a work context and the importance of good communications to the success of an organization and the well being of the employees.
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Customer Service
This part of the Workplace Communications Series focuses on at the vital issue of successful communication with the organization’s clients and customers. We look at why customer service is important, who customers are, the customer transaction and how to handle difficult customers
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Song for Africa
It is intended that this documentary will be an example of how Canadians can make a difference regarding the plight of Africa. The main goal of this documentary will be to present the issues surrounding the AIDS pandemic to Canadian youth and to offer them examples and resources required to create and design their own initiatives in the fight against AIDS and the developmental issues surrounding the continent.
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To Kill a Mockingbird: Exploring the Text
To Kill a Mockingbird has a special place in the canon of American literature. It is a text that deals with complex issues of justice, racism and childhood innocence. In this program, experts Dr Michael Polack and Pam Garlick discuss the way the novel works – examining how the novel has achieved its status and how we can approach the text for a more satisfying analysis and reading.
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Training Awareness: Acute Responses and Chronic Adaptations
This program aims to identify and distinguish between immediate (acute) responses to exercise and long term (chronic) adaptations to exercise by describing the structure, function and the effect of exercise on the three body systems most responsible for movement, these being the cardiovascular, respiratory and muscular systems. The program includes highly effective diagrams and animation and several experts provide quality information. The program is divided into clear sections, at the end of which students are provided with effective summaries of key information.
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A Two Way Street: You and the Organization
This program examines the key rights and responsibilities of both the employer and employee, reviews the nature of work, explores the fundamental employer-employee relationship with workers and employers at a range of industry worksites, and examines a variety of views about unions, working conditions, training, attitudes to work and the nature of the relationship between the boss and the worker.
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Snow Sense
It seems the media is full of Extreme stuff. Extreme sports, extreme makeovers, extreme cars, even extreme shampoo!
Snow Sense is a TV documentary that looks at the flip side of the hype to uncover the dangers that lurk beyond the ski/snowboard boundary ropes. In recent winters, more skiers and boarders have been getting into trouble in the out-of-bounds areas than ever before. People with years of experience as well as eager novices in extreme mode are at risk. An entertaining program with an important message: if you want to explore the backcountry take a course, get the gear, get some experience, and get some Snow Sense. The point is tragically illustrated with actual footage of the aftermath of an avalanche where three people in a guided, heli-ski group lost their lives. Shot at Whistler, BC, the film also includes stunning backcountry skiing and snowboarding footage, as well as the men and women of the Whistler Mountain Pro Ski Patrol doing search and rescue, avalanche forecasting and control.