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Career Tools is a weekly podcast focused on specific actions you can take to grow and enhance your career, whether you are a manager or not. Career Tools won the Podcast Awards Best Business podcast in 2010 and was nominated every other year it has been eligible. Whether you are interested in jump-starting a stalled career, or sharpening your edge, Career Tools is the podcast for you. Go to http://www.manager-tools.com/testimonials to read what others are saying about the impact Career Tools has had on their careers and lives.
Make The Most Of Your Internship - Part 2
Career Tools highly recommends internships for college students. In this cast, we conclude our conversation on why, and how to make the most of the experience.
00:0023/04/2010
Make The Most Of Your Internship - Part 1
Career Tools highly recommends internships for college students. In this cast, we tell you why, and how to make the most of the experience.
00:0016/04/2010
Getting Started With LinkedIn - Part 2
The conclusion of our discussion on getting started with LinkedIn.
00:0009/04/2010
Getting Started With LinkedIn - Part 1
LinkedIn is an essential career tool. We're going to explain the first steps you must take to create your profile, and ways of using LinkedIn to support your career.
00:0002/04/2010
How To Engage Your Seatmate
This cast describes how to engage the person sitting next to you when you are traveling professionally.
00:0026/03/2010
How to Give a Decision Briefing - Part 2
In this cast, we conclude our conversation on giving a decision briefing to your manager.
00:0019/03/2010
How to Give a Decision Briefing - Part 1
This cast describes how to give a decision briefing to your manager.
00:0012/03/2010
Organizational Finance Basics
This cast recommends what every professional ought to know about your organization's basic financial health.
00:0004/03/2010
Is Your Boss a Reader or a Listener?
This cast describes how to determine your boss's preferred communication style, and how to be more effective knowing it.
00:0026/02/2010
How To Ask For Advice
This cast describes how to ask for advice, and increase your chances of not only being successful in obtaining advice from this person once, but many times.
00:0019/02/2010
Attending a Meeting For Your Boss
This cast describes Career Tools' recommendations for how to attend a meeting when your boss asks you to go in his/her place.
00:0011/02/2010
How To Transfer Between States/Industries - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on how to change jobs between states, countries or industries.
00:0005/02/2010
How To Transfer Between States/Industries - Part 1
This cast explains how to change jobs between states, countries or industries.
00:0028/01/2010
Portable Messaging Basics - Part 2
This cast concludes our Career Tools' recommendations for textual communications on portable devices.
00:0021/01/2010
Portable Messaging Basics - Part 1
This cast describes Career Tools' recommendations for textual communications on portable devices.
00:0015/01/2010
Admitting Mistakes - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on recommendations for what to do when you make a mistake.
00:0008/01/2010
Admitting Mistakes - Part 1
This cast describes Career Tools' recommendations for what to do when you make a mistake.
00:0001/01/2010
How To Answer Questions About Career History - Part 2
This cast concludes Career Tool's recommendations for answering questions about your career history.
00:0017/12/2009
How To Answer Questions About Career History - Part 1
This cast describes Career Tool's recommendations for answering questions about your career history.
00:0011/12/2009
External Interviews and Careers - Chapter 1
This cast describes the importance of external interviewing in career management, and how to begin to handle the interview.
00:0004/12/2009
Presentations - The Right Chart, Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on how to choose the right chart for your data and message in a presentation.
00:0027/11/2009
Presentations - The Right Chart, Part 1
This cast describes how to choose the right chart for your data and message in a presentation.
00:0020/11/2009
How To Be Successful At Career Fairs - Part 2
In this cast, we conclude our recommendations for being effective at a Career Fair.
00:0013/11/2009
Career Fairs - Part 1
This cast describes Career Tools' general recommendations for being effective at a Career Fair.
00:0006/11/2009
Disagreeing With Your Boss - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on when it's okay to disagree with your boss, and how to do it.
00:0029/10/2009
Disagreeing With Your Boss - Part 1
This cast describes when it's okay to disagree with your boss, and how to do it.
00:0023/10/2009
Confidentiality With Bosses
This cast describes what to expect of our bosses when it comes to confidentiality of our communications with them.
00:0016/10/2009
Presentation Attire - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on how to dress when giving presentations.
00:0009/10/2009
Presentation Attire - Part 1
This cast recommends how to dress when giving presentations.
00:0002/10/2009
What Is Your Salary Expectation?
This cast is another in the series of how to answer the big 4 questions that recruiters ask.
00:0025/09/2009
What Are You Looking For?
This cast continues the series of the four questions recruiters will ask you with the second question: "what are you looking for?"
00:0017/09/2009
Meetings Breaks - Part 2
The conclusion of our discussion on how to effectively conduct Meeting Breaks.
00:0008/09/2009
Meeting Breaks - Part 1
This cast describes how to schedule and how to action breaks in meetings.
00:0004/09/2009
The Delta File
This cast recommends keeping an ongoing Delta File of changes you will make in the future.
00:0028/08/2009
Generation Y Careers #1: Parents Unwelcome
This cast recommends that Generation Y professionals keep their parents out of their careers.
00:0020/08/2009
What Is Your Current Situation?
This cast describes how to effectively answer the "What's your current situation?" question from a recruiter.
00:0014/08/2009
Airline Travel Basics #1 – Part 2
Part 2 of our conversation on the basics of Airline Travel.
00:0007/08/2009
Airline Travel Basics #1 - Part 1
This cast makes some basic recommendations regarding airline travel for professionals.
00:0031/07/2009
Midyear Goals Review - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on the Midyear Goals Review.
00:0024/07/2009
Midyear Goals Review - Part 1
This cast recommends reviewing our annual performance goals at midyear.
00:0016/07/2009
Travel - Airline Seats
This cast describes how to manage your seating on airlines, because it matters.
00:0010/07/2009
Handling An Inherited Audience
This cast describes how to be effective when you are one of several speakers to a larger audience.
00:0002/07/2009
2009 – Downturn - Annual Resume Update
This cast recommends changes to resumes based on the 2009 hiring market and beyond.
00:0025/06/2009
The Rule of 50
This cast explains a simple way to stay in touch with your professional network.
00:0018/06/2009
Greetings in DiSC
This cast explains a simple application of DiSC Behavior on greeting others.
00:0012/06/2009
Effective Layoff Announcement Response
This cast explains how to respond to the announcement of impending layoffs at your firm.
This is a long overdue cast, based on comments we get by email and on the forums. Far too many of us respond POORLY to an announcement or rumor of impending layoffs where we work. In fact, it's worse than that . . . MOST of us respond TERRIBLY, and HURT OUR CAREERS in doing so. But there's a better way, and there's a playbook to follow, and guess what? Career Tools has it, and that's what this cast shares.
00:0004/06/2009
360 Reviews - Providing Input
This cast explains how to respond to requests for 360 degree input.
360 reviews are a powerful - and growing - part of the Human Resources toolbox. They help leadership teams find out what managers and other professionals "really" are like based on input from the people most likely to "know" them: their boss, their peers, and their directs (if they have any), and in some cases other related personnel. Why NOT ask the consumers of a manager's behaviors whether or not he is a good manager?
Unfortunately, 360 reviews, as powerful as they are - and done well Manager Tools strongly recommends them - they are fraught with danger. Here's how to navigate them successfully.
00:0028/05/2009
Press Relations - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on Press Relations.
00:0022/05/2009
Press Relations - Part 1
The Internet and the explosion of communication media and media forms and software have changed the way most of us in our careers will interact with the press. All of us need some simple guidelines for our relationships with the press, if for no other reason than risk mitigation. We have a lot of straightforward ideas to share, some of which will surprise many of our listeners. Think about that: simple straightforward guidance that surprises...a clear indication that attention must be paid.
00:0014/05/2009
Audio Visual Equipment Use - Part 2
The conclusion of our conversation on Audio Visual Equipment Use.
00:0007/05/2009