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Career Tools
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…
Episodes
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Systematic Career Documentation - Part 2
This cast completes our series on how to create and use a Career Management Document as a key part of your career management system.
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Systematic Career Documentation - Part 1
This cast tells you how to create and use a Career Management Document as a key part of your career management system.
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The Career Tools Rule of Job Applications - 75% (2026)
This cast describes how to decide which jobs to apply for.
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The Career Tools Rule of Job Applications – 75%
This cast describes how to decide which jobs to apply for.
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3rd Rule of Customer Service – Over-Communicate
This cast describes how to deliver effective customer service by over-communicating.
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Simple Behavioral Communication Clues
This cast describes two simple communication behaviors to help determine roughly what someone's DiSC profile might be.
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Handling 360 Degree Review Input
This cast describes how to effectively handle getting feedback through a 360 degree review.
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How To Get Training Budget - Part 2
This cast concludes our series on how you can approach your manager in order to get training budget.
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How To Get Training Budget - Part 1
This cast describes how you can approach your manager in order to get training budget.
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Attending A Conference
This cast recommends what to do before, during and after any conference or training you attend.
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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.
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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.
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Getting Started With LinkedIn - Part 2
The conclusion of our discussion on getting started with LinkedIn.
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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…
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How To Engage Your Seatmate
This cast describes how to engage the person sitting next to you when you are traveling professionally.
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How to Give a Decision Briefing - Part 2 (2026)
This cast describes how to give a decision briefing to your manager.
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How to Give a Decision Briefing - Part 1 (2026)
This cast describes how to give a decision briefing to your manager.
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How to Give a Decision Briefing - Part 2
In this cast, we conclude our conversation on giving a decision briefing to your manager.
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How to Give a Decision Briefing - Part 1
This cast describes how to give a decision briefing to your manager.
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Organizational Finance Basics
This cast recommends what every professional ought to know about your organization's basic financial health.
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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.
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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.
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Attending a Meeting For Your Boss (2026)
This cast describes Career Tools' recommendations for how to attend a meeting when your boss asks you to go in his/her place. Join us in London for more…
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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.
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How To Transfer Between States/Industries - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on how to change jobs between states, countries or industries.
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How To Transfer Between States/Industries - Part 1
This cast explains how to change jobs between states, countries or industries.
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Portable Messaging Basics - Part 2
This cast concludes our Career Tools' recommendations for textual communications on portable devices.
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Portable Messaging Basics - Part 1
This cast describes Career Tools' recommendations for textual communications on portable devices.
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Admitting Mistakes - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on recommendations for what to do when you make a mistake.
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Admitting Mistakes - Part 1
This cast describes Career Tools' recommendations for what to do when you make a mistake.
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How To Answer Questions About Career History - Part 2 (2026)
This cast describes Career Tool's recommendations for answering questions about your career history.
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How To Answer Questions About Career History - Part 1 (2026)
This cast describes Career Tool's recommendations for answering questions about your career history.
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How To Answer Questions About Career History - Part 2
This cast concludes Career Tool's recommendations for answering questions about your career history.
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How To Answer Questions About Career History - Part 1
This cast describes Career Tool's recommendations for answering questions about your career history.
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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.
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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.
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Presentations - The Right Chart, Part 1
This cast describes how to choose the right chart for your data and message in a presentation.
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How To Be Successful At Career Fairs - Part 2
In this cast, we conclude our recommendations for being effective at a Career Fair.
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Career Fairs - Part 1
This cast describes Career Tools' general recommendations for being effective at a Career Fair.
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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.
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Disagreeing With Your Boss - Part 1
This cast describes when it's okay to disagree with your boss, and how to do it.
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Confidentiality With Bosses
This cast describes what to expect of our bosses when it comes to confidentiality of our communications with them.
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Presentation Attire - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on how to dress when giving presentations.
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Presentation Attire - Part 1
This cast recommends how to dress when giving presentations.
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What Is Your Salary Expectation? (2026)
This cast is another in the series of how to answer the main questions that recruiters ask.
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What Is Your Salary Expectation?
This cast is another in the series of how to answer the big 4 questions that recruiters ask.
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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?"
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Meetings Breaks - Part 2
The conclusion of our discussion on how to effectively conduct Meeting Breaks.
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Meeting Breaks - Part 1
This cast describes how to schedule and how to action breaks in meetings.
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The Delta File (2026)
This podcast recommends keeping an ongoing Delta File, a private journal where you record organizational practices you find objectionable so that when you…
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The Delta File
This cast recommends keeping an ongoing Delta File of changes you will make in the future.
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Generation Y Careers #1: Parents Unwelcome
This cast recommends that Generation Y professionals keep their parents out of their careers.
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What Is Your Current Situation? (2026)
This cast describes how to effectively answer the "What's your current situation?" question from a recruiter.
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What Is Your Current Situation?
This cast describes how to effectively answer the "What's your current situation?" question from a recruiter.
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Airline Travel Basics #1 – Part 2
Part 2 of our conversation on the basics of Airline Travel.
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Airline Travel Basics #1 - Part 1
This cast makes some basic recommendations regarding airline travel for professionals.
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Midyear Goals Review - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on the Midyear Goals Review.
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Midyear Goals Review - Part 1
This cast recommends reviewing our annual performance goals at midyear.
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Travel - Airline Seats
This cast describes how to manage your seating on airlines, because it matters.
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Handling An Inherited Audience
This cast describes how to be effective when you are one of several speakers to a larger audience.