Help yourself - self employment (Captioned) | Cyril Jones | 1982 | ACMI collection

Self-employed people describe their work and explain why they are self employed. Their occupations vary from handyman, stallholders, to a proprietor of a chain of jeans stores. All of these businesses started with relatively small amounts of capital. The video also outlines essential steps to be taken by people considering self-employment and lists contacts who can give useful advice.

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Credits

producer/director

Cyril Jones

Duration

00:20:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1982

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

300750

Language

English

Subject categories

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Work

Closed captioning

Sound/audio

Captioned

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Help yourself - self employment (Captioned)

Australia, 1982

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