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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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2009 – Downturn - Annual Resume Update
This cast recommends changes to resumes based on the 2009 hiring market and beyond.
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The Rule of 50
This cast explains a simple way to stay in touch with your professional network.
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Greetings in DiSC
This cast explains a simple application of DiSC Behavior on greeting others.
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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…
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360 Reviews - Providing Input - Part 2
This cast explains how to respond to requests for 360 degree input.
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360 Reviews - Providing Input - Part 1
This cast explains how to respond to requests for 360 degree input.
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360 Reviews - Providing Input (Hall of Fame Guidance)
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…
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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…
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Audio Visual Equipment Use - Part 2
The conclusion of our conversation on Audio Visual Equipment Use.
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Audio Visual Equipment Use
In this cast, we're going to describe how to use the two most common audio-visual tools: slides and flip charts.
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Attention Management – Distractions, Part 3
Part 3, and the conclusion, of our series on Attention Management - Distractions.
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Attention Management – Distractions, Part 2
Part 2 of our series on Attention Management - Distractions.
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Attention Management – Distractions, Part 1
Most of us do a poor job of managing our time - whoops, that's managing our priorities. None of us actually manage time, right? Time can't be managed. But what…
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Responding To An Internal Interview Request
It seems that a lot of people still don't realize that we're all managing our own careers now. Yes, your organization has some say and power in the equation…
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Bad Boss #1 - The Angry and Demeaning Boss, Part 5
In this cast, we finish our conversation on how to work with an angry and demeaning boss.
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Bad Boss #1 - The Angry and Demeaning Boss, Part 4
In this cast, we continue with part 4 of our conversation on how to work with an angry and demeaning boss.
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Bad Boss #1 - The Angry and Demeaning Boss, Part 3
In this cast, we continue with part 3 of our conversation on how to work with an angry and demeaning boss.
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Bad Boss #1 - The Angry and Demeaning Boss, Part 2
In this cast, we continue our conversation on how to work with an angry and demeaning boss. In case you missed it, here is part 1 of the series: Bad Boss #1 -…
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Bad Boss #1 - The Angry and Demeaning Boss, Part 1
This cast explains how to work with an angry and demeaning boss. We wish we didn’t have to do casts like this, but angry and demeaning bosses are a fact of…
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New Job Day One - Do It Yourself
This cast recommends a simple approach to speed up your fitting in to a new organization and role.
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An Especially Important Relationship In A Downturn
This cast explains how to improve an especially important relationship during economic downturns: your boss's peers.
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The Dangle
This cast describes a recruiting “technique” called the “Dangle”, and how to combat it.
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The 2nd Rule of Effective Project Team Members
This cast explains the SECOND most important behavior or habit to ensure your success as a project team member. It’s one thing to manage a project. But far…
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Maintaining Recruiter Relationships
This cast explains an effective way to maintain relationships with professional recruiters. In today’s slow economy, we don’t want to NEED a recruiter and then…
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The Downturn Rite of Passage
This cast describes the reasons why leaving your company or industry in a downturn CAN be a bad idea, and recommends options to consider in those situations…
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Career Tools Cast #3: What Do You Want To Do?
This cast explains an important career search question, and how to answer it: "What do you want to do, and where do you want to do it?" You're going to be…
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Career Tools Cast #2: The First Rule of Higher Education - Get Good Grades
This cast makes the case for the most important thing you do at the beginning of your professional life: get good grades in College/University. This is the…
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Career Tools Cast #1: How to Handle Location in an Interview
This cast describes a simple way to handle the interviewing question, “What’s your location preference?”
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Boss One-on-Ones - Professional Updates
This cast describes a way to approximate One on Ones (O3s) with your boss.
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Career Crisis Email
This cast describes your initial communications with a friend or associate whose career is at risk, for whatever reason. We read in the Wall Street Journal…
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I Hate My New Job
This cast describes steps to take when you realize early in a job that you don’t like it. One of the things that has changed as individuals have had to…
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Feel, Felt, Found
This cast describes a simple verbal tool for addressing tension, conflict or other ineffective emotions in the workplace. Mark has finally gotten around to…
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Business Travel - Packing
For years pundits have been predicting that technology (videoconferencing, etc.) will lead to the decline and death of business travel. We here at Manager…
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John Lucht Interview - Part 3 of 3
In this cast, we cover part 3 of our conversation with John Lucht, premier executive recruiter and author of "Rites of Passage".
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John Lucht Interview - Part 2 of 3
In this cast, we cover part 2 of our conversation with John Lucht, premier executive recruiter and author of “Rites of Passage”. Note: John’s…
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The MySpace Cast - Part 2 of 2
In today’s cast, we conclude our conversation on Myspace and social networks. As always, if you’re new to Manager Tools and haven’t listened…
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John Lucht Interview - Part 1 of 3
We have a special treat for you … as a matter of fact, today we’re publishing the very first podcast with someone other than Mark and Mike. Mark…
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The MySpace Cast - Part 1 of 2
This cast gives guidance for managers’ use of Social Networking Sites like MySpace and FaceBook. If you’re one of our younger listeners, members…
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Sharing Your References
This cast tells you how to handle requests for your references when engaged in a job search. Even though “References Available Upon Request” is no…
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Effective Meetings Behavior Part 5 - Posture
We’re all in meetings all the time, right? So how come there’s not an instruction manual? We all complain about them. But no one seems able or…
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How to Remember Names
This show describes a couple of simple techniques to help you remember people’s names. Whether we like it or not, other people are part of our…
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Meal Interviews (Part 2 of 2)
This podcast is the second of two on the subtleties associated with being interviewed during a meal.
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Meal Interviews (Part 1 of 2)
This podcast details all the subtleties associated with being interviewed during a meal. We have NO EXCUSE for why we didn’t do this podcast 2 years ago…
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Resume Update 2008
This cast updates one of our most popular casts Your Resume Stinks [October 31, 2005] with learnings from our community and some timely recommendations…
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How To Introduce People (2026)
This cast explains how to introduce one person to another in social and business settings.
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How to Introduce People
This cast explains how to introduce one person to another in social and business settings. We surprised some of our members a couple of years ago when we…
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The Annual Layoff Immunization (Part 2 of 2)
This week, we conclude our conversation on the Manager Tools Annual Layoff Immunization Guidelines.
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The Annual Layoff Immunization (Part 1 of 2)
We received lots of comments and email regarding our show regarding the first rule of layoffs. While our recommendation struck some folks the wrong way -…
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How to Handle a Group Interview
This cast describes a simple way to handle a group interview. Interviewing is one of the real tragedies in most companies. It’s so easy to do it well (once you…
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The Basics of Calendar Management (Part 2 of 2)
This is the second of our casts that describe our recommendations about calendar management.
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The Basics of Calendar Management (Part 1 of 2)
This cast describes the first of our recommendations about calendar management.
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Getting Laid Off - Finances Rule (Hall of Fame Guidance) (2026)
This cast reveals the most important concept a laid off professional must know: Finances Rule. Most of us fear being laid off. It's a good fear to have…
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Getting Laid Off - Finances Rule
This cast reveals the most important concept a laid off manager must know: Finances Rule. it is the first in a series designed to help both prepare for and…
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How to Leave a Voicemail
This cast describes how to leave an effective voicemail. If you’ve ever gotten a voicemail which sounded like, “[your name], this is [their name], call…
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How to be Effective in Everyday Conversations (2026)
In this cast, we describe how to be effective in everyday conversations.
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How to be Effective in Everyday Conversations
In this cast, we describe how to be effective in everyday conversations.
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How to Answer the Leadership Style Question
This cast describes how to answer the interviewing question, “Describe Your Leadership Style.” This is perhaps the third most important…