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Young professionals discuss their jobs and provide behind-the-scenes glimpses into their daily routines. Viewers learn about in-demand jobs, and what it takes to succeed in these careers. "Career Connections" is a powerful resource for students as they explore possible career options.

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Man wearing a white white shirt and yellow necktie sits slightly sideways from the camera and looks forward. He is speaking as if he is in an interview.
Career Connections
Episode 1
4 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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View from a doorway into an office. A woman is seated at a desk with a computer mouse, keyboard, and monitor. A blue college banner with red letters hangs on the wall behind her. Text on the banner reads, "University of Dayton."
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Episode 2
5 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Profile of a woman seated at a desk working on a computer. 2 workstations with monitors and keyboards are in the background.
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Episode 3
2 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Profile view of a woman sitting in a white leather office chair. She looks forward at the image on the computer monitor in a lab setting. Others work on computers nearby.
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Episode 4
4 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Cylindrical metal duct with a control box and large valve control. Sign on wall says Supersonic Wind Tunnel. Caption: We have a tunnel that will reach Mach 3 on a small scale.
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Episode 5
4 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Closeup on a beehive with worker bees entering and exiting through the opening at the bottom.
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Episode 6
3 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Woman seated in an office desk chair faces camera like she is in an interview. Text on image reads, "Classes."
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Episode 7
6 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Man wearing glasses speaks towards camera in an indoor setting. Table with laptop and printer are behind him.
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Episode 8
6 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Woman wearing a white t-shirt and dark pants stands next to a red car with white car waiting behind it in an automobile assembly line. Her head is turned and her mouth is in a wide smile as she extends her arm to reach for something out of view.
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Episode 9
5 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Man wearing a white collared shirt, wearing glasses looks forward and to the side while speaking.
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Episode 10
5 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Man stands in front of a Goodyear logo banner while speaking to camera like he's in an interview.
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Episode 11
5 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Two-line graphs. One with sharp, jagged, closely spaced peaks and valleys, the other with more gently increasing and decreasing peaks and valleys. Caption: This information is captured by the BioRadio
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Episode 12
4 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Woman wearing glasses and business attire sits in an office chair behind a desk, looking just off camera like she is in an interview.
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Episode 13
4 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Two people wearing hard hats walking on a concrete path through an infrastructure of intricate tubing and walkways. Caption: A chemical engineer figures out a way to scale that process up
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Episode 14
5 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Computer graphic representation of clusters double helix DNA strands. Caption: We use synthetic DNA to reprogram living cells.
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Episode 15
4 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Seen from above, a large cylindrical tube with a hatch in a pit surrounded by wooden supports and metal bars. Caption: model representations of sewer and river systems.
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Episode 16
5 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Man wearing glasses and a dark collared shirt looks forward and to the side while speaking. A suit jacket hangs on a bar behind him.
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Episode 17
3 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Man wears a dark green zip-up jacket and glasses. His mouth is open in mid-speech as he looks away from the camera and to the side. He is in a mechanic's shop with commercial truck wheel drums hanging on stands behind him.
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Episode 18
4 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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A multi-story office building has sections of brick, glass and metal walls extending outward from the building center with lifts and trucks parked outside.
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Episode 19
4 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Man wearing jeans and a white sleeveless t-shirt uses a pipe cutter on a P, V, C pipe. The wall next to him has an open access panel exposing P, V, C piping that is under installation.
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Episode 20
5 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Woman with long brown hair sits and speaks while people behind her cut hair on mannequin heads in a salon setting.
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Episode 21
4 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Closeup on a plate of roasted chicken, rice with vegetables, and a tossed green salad.
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Episode 22
8 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Man wearing a black medical scrub top and white undershirt tee parts lips in mid-speech. He is in a dental examination room and stands in front of a dental chair with an examination light. Text on image reads, "For more information, visit www.owens.edu."
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Episode 23
4 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Woman sitting at a desk works on a desktop computer. Next to her, sheets of paper and a keyboard with Post-it notes attached to the monitor stand. A bulletin board is in the background.
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Episode 24
4 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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2 men in dark polo shirts and pants speak to each other in a machine shop. In the foreground, a table with a forged bench vice mounted to its top. Work tables and stools are in the background.
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Episode 25
3 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Complex robotic machinery behind a mesh grate with a person standing at a control panel outside of the grated area. Caption: We have electrical engineers that focus on computers.
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Episode 26
6 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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An angled roof covered in solar panels on top of a reflective building with "Third Sun Solar" and a logo on the side. Caption: We mount solar panels on roofs, we create energy,
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Episode 27
5 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Three people stand around a horse. One holds the reins of the horse. A smiling person wearing a helmet is mounted on the horse. Caption: and I get to watch the riders benefit from her therapy.
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Episode 28
6 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Low shot of a flying helicopter with a farm duster attached to its base.
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Episode 29
4 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Closeup on a hand with fuchsia pink nail polish using a pen to fill out a form.
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Episode 30
5 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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A conveyor belt moves rows of light colored, flat, and round objects at a high speed. Caption: but a lot of support goes into making a good product,
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Episode 31
5 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Digital map with partial views of the U, S, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. The map is divided into 4 quadrants centered over a black marker identified as Spain. Other markers appear on the map, labeled as Cincinnati, Germany and Israel.
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Episode 32
6 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Man seated in a leather easy chair in a home setting looks just off camera like he is participating in an interview. Behind him, containers and art supplies are out on a counter.
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Episode 33
3 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Closeup of a person's feet wearing exercise shoes and climbing a stairmaster.
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Episode 34
4 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Woman looks towards a man on her left in a classroom setting, both holding pieces of a kinetic mobile as 2 people watch in the foreground.
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Episode 35
5 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Blurry photo of a man wearing a long-sleeved collared shirt and necktie who is speaking on the phone. Text on image reads, "Why is financial literacy important on your job?"
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Episode 36
8 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Man drives a forklift loaded with a pallet of wood 2 by fours over a dirt lot. In the background, are wood frame walls and structures. Some frames have covered white insulated panels.
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Episode 37
4 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Young man wearing dark polo shirt speaks to camera. Text on the wall behind him and on his shirt reads, "Emerson, Climate Technology."
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Episode 38
5 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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A tree lined river with steep banks on one side. Caption: you have groundwater that flows into the river
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Episode 39
4 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Woman wearing a dress and leggings walks through an office hallway with wood partitions and filing cabinets in the background.
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Episode 40
4 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Man seated behind a work desk faces camera, looking down at a Dremel tool he is holding in 1 hand. He points to the end attachment while speaking.
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Episode 41
3 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Woman with short hair wearing a suit jacket and pearl necklace looks forward and to the side while speaking.
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Episode 42
3 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Closeup of a hand wearing a latex glove and reaching towards a blueprint drawing of a machine part.
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Episode 43
3 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Man dressed in a blue collared shirt and dark slacks walks away from the camera in an open office area. He walks towards a woman sitting in an office chair at a desk with a computer.
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Episode 44
5 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Screenshot of a news article with a photo of brick buildings, 1 with the Macy's logo. Article headline reads, "How Macy's competes for talent in Silicon Valley."
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Episode 45
5 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Extremely complex machine with interconnected cylindrical objects and wiring harnesses. Caption: It starts with an idea or concept.
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Episode 46
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Woman wears glasses, white medical clothing, and purple disposable latex gloves. She holds a thin, metal implement above a Petri dish.
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Episode 47
4 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Young woman in profile wears a blue and white striped dress shirt and dark pants as she leans over a group table with teenagers seated around it in a classroom setting.
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Episode 48
6 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Woman wearing glasses and a black zip-up sweatshirt stands in front of a collection of cloth patchwork panels.
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Episode 49
6 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Closeup of a man wearing a green polo, eye glasses, and protective gloves as he holds an oil painting canvas upright with 1 hand on the top and the other cupped in front of the canvas. The back of the canvas faces the camera.
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Episode 50
4 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12