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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Solving Problems in the Field
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: Language Arts: Resources for Adult Educators: What Is a Topic Sentence?
An adult educator discusses how to identify and write a topic sentence.
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Pbs: Language Arts: Resources for Adult Educators: Thesis Statement
An adult educator talks about the thesis statement and how to cluster ideas around it.
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Pbs: Language Arts: Resources for Adult Educators: Chronological Order
An adult educator explains and gives examples of chronological order in writing.
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Pbs: Language Arts: Resources for Adult Educators: Antecedents
An adult educator provides examples of antecedents in sentences.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: Finding Area
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: Language Arts: Resources for Adult Educators: Subject Verb Agreement
An adult educator explains subject-verb agreement.
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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: Language Arts: Resources for Adult Educators: Conjunctions
An adult educator explains and demonstrates the use of conjunctions and subordinate clauses.
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Pbs: Workplace Essential Skills: The Writing Process in Construction
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: Career Connections: Medical Technologist
Experience the daily work of a medical technologist and why this fast-paced career is so important to the proper care and treatment of patients. A video showing the fast-paced career of a medical technologist. [4:40]
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Pbs: Career Connections: Industrial Designer
Meet an industrial engineer who solves problems by designing new items to help others accomplish tasks on this video. [3:15]
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Pbs: Career Connections: Construction Manager
A video exploring the career of a construction manager. Understand that a construction manager job at a major construction firm is about safety, how drawings are made, how quality control is performed, and the importance of following the...
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Pbs: Career Connections: Hvac Lab Technician
Learn what a lab technician at a leading climate technology company does and see how his day-to-day work with compressors impacts the lives of families all around the world in this video. [5:20]