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Career Tools

by Manager 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 has had on their careers and lives. Our goal: Every Professional Productive (TM)

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Episodes

  1. Interviews Are Not A Two-Way Street (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    Our guidance on how to understand the communication flow in an interview. Join us from wherever you are! Find out what virtual trainings are coming up: https://www.manager-tools.com/conferences-individuals-increase-your-effectiveness

  2. 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. Join us in London for more details visit: www.manager-tools.com/london

  3. How to Apologize (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    You're a professional, and that makes you human. You're human, and that makes you mess up. You mess up, and that means you apologize. Join us at an Effective Communicator Conference: www.manager-tools.com/ecc, Get working on your resume: www.manager-tools.com/licenses

  4. How To Write Effectively

    This cast teaches how to quickly improve your writing. Start communicating better: www.manager-tools.com/mtdisc, Join us in Chicago: www.manager-tools.com/chicago

  5. How To Introduce People

    This cast explains how to introduce one person to another in social and business settings.

  6. How to be Effective in Everyday Conversations

    In this cast, we describe how to be effective in everyday conversations.

  7. Micro-Communications

    Our guidance on micro-communications: the small behaviors that make an enormous difference in how you're perceived and how effective you are.

  8. Answering The Question: Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years? (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    Our guidance on how to answer the interview question 'where do you see yourself in 5 years?'.

  9. How To Predict and Answer Interview Questions - Part 2 (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    Our guidance on how to read a job ad and predict what interview questions will be asked.

  10. How To Predict and Answer Interview Questions - Part 1 (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    Our guidance on how to read a job ad and predict what interview questions will be asked.

  11. Answering The Question: Why Do You Want To Work Here? (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    Our guidance on answering the interview question 'why do you want to work here?'

  12. How Do I Know I Have An Offer? (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    Our guidance on how to tell whether you've received a full and complete offer.

  13. Delegating To The Floor - For Directs - Part 2 (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This guidance discusses how and when to delegate to the floor.

  14. Delegating To The Floor - For Directs - Part 1 (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This guidance discusses how and when to delegate to the floor.

  15. The Delta File (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This podcast recommends keeping an ongoing Delta File, a private journal where you record organizational practices you find objectionable so that when you eventually reach a position of greater influence, you'll remember how those decisions felt from below and avoid making the same mistakes...

  16. Cover Letter Examples (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This is our guidance that gives examples of cover letters for particular roles.

  17. Accepting A Job Offer (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This is our guidance on how to accept a job offer.

  18. Keeping Your Job Search Confidential (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This cast describes how to keep your current employer from finding out about your search for a new job.

  19. The Career Tools Rule of Job Applications - 75% (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This cast describes how to decide which jobs to apply for.

  20. Results and Relationships - Part 2 (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This cast gives our most fundamental career advice: get results and build relationships.

  21. Results and Relationships - Part 1 (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This cast gives our most fundamental career advice: get results and build relationships.

  22. How To Create Resume Accomplishments (with Examples)

    This is our guidance for how to create accomplishments for your resume that will be compelling to the people deciding whether to bring you in for an interview.

  23. Systematic Career Documentation - Part 2 (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This cast tells you how to create and use a Career Management Document, the ideal tool for managing your career and making it easy to update your resume.

  24. Systematic Career Documentation - Part 1 (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This cast tells you how to create and use a Career Management Document, the ideal tool for managing your career and making it easy to update your resume.

  25. Answering Illegal Interview Questions - Part 2 (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This cast gives our guidance on answering illegal interview questions.

  26. Answering Illegal Interview Questions - Part 1 (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This cast gives our guidance on answering illegal interview questions.

  27. How To Be An Effective "Number Two" - Part 2

    While not all bosses do, smart and effective bosses usually name someone on their team as their "Number Two." Being a good Number Two is good for your career. Here's how to do it.

  28. How To Be An Effective "Number Two" - Part 1

    While not all bosses do, smart and effective bosses usually name someone on their team as their "Number Two." Being a good Number Two is good for your career. Here's how to do it.

  29. How Not To Multitask

    This cast explains our guidance on what to do instead of multitasking.

  30. How To Answer Questions About Career History - Part 2 (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This cast describes Career Tool's recommendations for answering questions about your career history.

  31. How To Answer Questions About Career History - Part 1 (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This cast describes Career Tool's recommendations for answering questions about your career history.

  32. How to Give a Decision Briefing - Part 2 (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This cast describes how to give a decision briefing to your manager.

  33. How to Give a Decision Briefing - Part 1 (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This cast describes how to give a decision briefing to your manager.

  34. The Ethical Professional (Hall of Fame Guidance)

    This guidance on ethical behavior serves as the foundation for all Career Tools, Manager Tools, and Executive Tools content. The principles outlined here are the underlying assumptions that inform every recommendation we make.

  35. What Is Your Salary Expectation?

    This cast is another in the series of how to answer the main questions that recruiters ask.

  36. What Is Your Current Situation?

    This cast describes how to effectively answer the "What's your current situation?" question from a recruiter.

  37. 360 Reviews - Providing Input - Part 2

    This cast explains how to respond to requests for 360 degree input.

  38. 360 Reviews - Providing Input - Part 1

    This cast explains how to respond to requests for 360 degree input.

  39. 5 Ways to Master Horstman's 3rd Law of Interviewing - Part 2

    What is this Horstman's 3rd Law of Interviewing? We'll Take 90% Less Ability for 10% More Attitude Every Day of the Week.

  40. 5 Ways to Master Horstman's 3rd Law of Interviewing - Part 1

    What is this Horstman's 3rd Law of Interviewing? We'll Take 90% Less Ability for 10% More Attitude Every Day of the Week.

  41. The Basics of Calendar Management - Part 2

    Part 2 of our recommendations about calendar management.

  42. The Basics of Calendar Management - Part 1

    This cast describes the first of our recommendations about calendar management.

  43. Work-Life Balance: The Yellow Peanut M&M Analogy - HOF 2025

    Our Hall Of Fame guidance on work-family balance.

  44. Feel, Felt, Found

    This cast describes a simple verbal tool for addressing tension, conflict or other ineffective emotions in the workplace.

  45. How to Answer the Leadership Style Question

    This cast describes how to answer the interviewing question, "Describe Your Leadership Style."

  46. Horstman's Wager

    This cast is about interview preparation, and the need for ethics and candor during the process.

  47. Preparing For Your Review - HOF 2025

    Our Hall of Fame guidance on how to prepare for your review.

  48. How to Handle the Interview Weakness Question

    In this cast, we share one of the best interviewing answer templates you'll ever hear. It's simple, elegant, easy to deliver, and surprise, surprise: it directly answers the question.

  49. How to Handle Headhunters (External Recruiters) - Part 2

    One of the skills that so many professionals could be so much better at with such little work is relationships with executive recruiters. The fact is, recruiters play important roles in corporate life, more today than they ever have before, and not just at executive levels. This is particularly...

  50. How to Handle Headhunters (External Recruiters) - Part 1

    One of the skills that so many professionals could be so much better at with such little work is relationships with executive recruiters. The fact is, recruiters play important roles in corporate life, more today than they ever have before, and not just at executive levels. This is particularly...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

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. Our goal: Every Professional Productive (TM)

HOSTED BY

Manager Tools

Produced by Michael Auzenne

CATEGORIES

business careers

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