Ridge Parents: Important Advice for Parents and Teens!

"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team."

-Benjamin Franklin Fairless

Share these empowering VIDEOS on CAREERS with your students:

1. Applying to University: Tips to Set You Apart From the Rest

Summary: A panel of university enrollment managers share some tips and tricks on how to stand out when applying to university.

Duration: 7 min.

Platform: OnCore

2. Career Q & A: Professional Advice and Insight Series

Summary: Professionals from various fields offer insights into their career paths, what they do on the job, and the keys to success their industry. They also offer candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into their industry’s biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.

Duration: 6-36 min.

Platform: Learn360

3. Job Hunting for Students

Summary: Youth unemployment rates are high. CTV's Chief Financial Commentator, Patti Lovett-Reid offers some tips for college and university students. She discusses entrepreneurships, volunteerism, and the benefit of taking additional courses not normally taken as part of your diploma or degree.

Duration: 5 min.

Platform: OnCore

4. In-Demand Careers

Summary:Workopolis' Tara Talbot lists a number of well-paying jobs that are in-demand and sometimes overlooked.

Duration: 4:09 min.

Platform: OnCore

5. Five Essential Habits of Healthy Teens

Summary: All teens will benefit from learning these five "essential habits" based on recent wellness studies from top-ranking universities. Viewers follow Dr. Mohr, a Registered Dietitian and Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics, as he explores the five essential habits that promote health: eating a nutritious diet, starting each day with breakfast, exercising daily, getting enough sleep and staying drug-free. Dr. Mohr follows real teens as they demonstrate each of the five strategies. We learn that eating a nutritious diet can be fast and easy; that exercise can come from dancing, bike riding or just about any activity. We visit a sleep lab to learn the consequences of poor sleep habits. Finally, Dr. Mohr moderates a teen forum focused on how substance abuse and smoking impact health. Filled with helpful hints, easy recipes and lots of encouragement, this program will motivate students and set the foundation for life-long good health.

Duration: 18:24 min.

Platform: McIntyre Media

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