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 has had on their careers and lives.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Episodes
- 967
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2025
The Dangle
This cast describes a recruiting “technique” called the “Dangle”, and how to combat it.
Thu 22 Jan 2009
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 more of us are ON projects, not managing …
Thu 15 Jan 2009
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 discover none of them remember us. Al…
Thu 08 Jan 2009
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.
Too many professionals fail to realize …
Sat 03 Jan 2009
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 asked this question, and you have to know …
Mon 29 Dec 2008
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 first in a series of what surely will be…
Fri 19 Dec 2008
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?”
Thu 11 Dec 2008
Boss One-on-Ones - Professional Updates
This cast describes a way to approximate One on Ones (O3s) with your boss.
Sun 09 Nov 2008
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 this week about a bank failure in the US…
Mon 06 Oct 2008
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 take over their own career management is more m…
Mon 22 Sep 2008
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 writing this cast down! Every time Mark tea…
Sun 14 Sep 2008
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 Tools don’t agree. We're human, and humans…
Sun 03 Aug 2008
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".
Tue 29 Jul 2008
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 website can be found here: RiteSite.com
Mon 21 Jul 2008
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 to the first part, you may wish to go back and listen to …
Sat 19 Jul 2008
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 and Mike recently had an opportunity to meet with Joh…
Wed 16 Jul 2008
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, or premium subscribers, with less than 5 years in the…
Mon 14 Jul 2008
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 longer a good idea, reference CHECKING is on the ris…
Sun 06 Jul 2008
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 willing to do something about it. We will.
We shared…
Mon 26 May 2008
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