Virtual Workplace Tour Video

The Learning Partnership’s Passport to Prosperity program has created a virtual workplace tour (available in English and in French) to provide a valuable resource for schools, teachers, and students. The video tour is lively, fast-paced and geared toward high school students. It offers relevant and meaningful career information and demonstrates the range of career opportunities available.

The tour focuses on careers in the hospitality industry and was filmed at the Sheraton Fallsview Hotel in Niagara Falls and Le Meridien/King Edward Hotel in Toronto during the spring of 2004. The complete tour is about 25 minutes long and contains interviews with eight people, including a Chef, Banquet Manager, Front Desk Manager, Security Manager, Catering Manager, Concierge, Housekeeper and high school Co-op Student. The video ends with each person offering career advice to high school students.

Key messages of the video are:

• There are many different types of jobs within a single organization
• There is a wide variety of career options available to students
• All jobs are valuable and all are interconnected
• There are many choices for students to make when planning a career and these choices begin in school
• Life is a process of continuous learning. During our lives and careers there are many opportunities to go back to school/ change direction/ retrain.

For more information or a copy of the video in either English or French, please call 416-440-5113. In addition, the video can be viewed online from The Learning Partnership website, www.thelearningpartnership.ca.

Special thanks to The Business Education Council of Niagara for its support in the production of the video.