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Career Tools

Summary: 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/CTrecommendations to read what others are saying about the impact Career Tools has had on their careers and lives.

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  • Artist: Michael Auzenne and Mark Horstman
  • Copyright: Copyright 2005-2014 Manager Tools, LLC

Podcasts:

 Responding To An Internal Interview Request | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

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. But that ability to influence our choices is often misunderstood as managing what job we're in, why we're in it, and what other jobs we can have. And one of the situations that confuses us is when our organization asks us to interview for a job without us applying for it. Maybe we really want the job, maybe we would have never considered it. But when they ask US - when the COMPANY seems to know more than we do, and we don't know what the invite MEANS ... it's confusing. And that's why Career Tools is here: to explain what to do and why.

 Bad Boss #1 - The Angry and Demeaning Boss, Part 5 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

In this cast, we finish our conversation on how to work with an angry and demeaning boss.

 Bad Boss #1 - The Angry and Demeaning Boss, Part 4 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

In this cast, we continue with part 4 of our conversation on how to work with an angry and demeaning boss.

 Bad Boss #1 - The Angry and Demeaning Boss, Part 3 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

In this cast, we continue with part 3 of our conversation on how to work with an angry and demeaning boss.

 Bad Boss #1 - The Angry and Demeaning Boss, Part 2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

In this cast, we continue our conversation on how to work with an angry and demeaning boss.

 Bad Boss #1 - The Angry and Demeaning Boss, Part 1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

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 life. And, for most of us, it doesn’t matter how great a boss WE are if we WORK FOR someone who is angry, demeaning, and generally unprofessional. Despite our recommendations to focus on your team, because that’s where the leverage is, OUR boss still exists. And if she’s a jerk, we’ve got to adapt. Here’s how.

 New Job Day One - Do It Yourself | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

This cast recommends a simple approach to speed up your fitting in to a new organization and role.

 An Especially Important Relationship In A Downturn | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

This cast explains how to improve an especially important relationship during economic downturns: your boss's peers.

 Gossip Avoidance | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

This cast explains how to handle gossip in the workplace.

 The Dangle | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

This cast describes a recruiting “technique” called the “Dangle”, and how to combat it.

 The 2nd Rule of Effective Project Team Members | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

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 them. How can we do this while still getting “all of our real work done”? We have a series of recommendations – this is the second one. ;-)

 Maintaining Recruiter Relationships | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

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. Almost no one but smart senior executives reach out proactively – but you can do it too. Here’s how.

 The Downturn Rite of Passage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

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 that leaving their company or industry during a downturn has a long-term consequence – executives are expected to have experience navigating all the way through a slowdown.

 Career Tools Cast #3: What Do You Want To Do? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

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 how to answer it, without limiting yourself. It's one of those fleeting career moments whose outcome is defined likely BEFORE the moment arrives.

 Career Tools Cast #2: The First Rule of Higher Education - Get Good Grades | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

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 many Career Tools casts about college and university as preparation for one’s professional adult life. As with so many other [...]

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