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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 has

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Horstman's Wager

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2025/12/04

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

Preparing For Your Review - HOF 2025

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2025/11/27

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

How to Handle the Interview Weakness Question

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2025/11/20

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.

How to Handle Headhunters (External Recruiters) - Part 2

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2025/11/13

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 true in the technology space.

How to Handle Headhunters (External Recruiters) - Part 1

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2025/11/06

Got Email? - Part 2

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2025/10/30

In this podcast we talk about how to make your technology work for you, and how you can spend less time on email while getting more done.

Got Email? - Part 1

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2025/10/23

In this podcast we talk about how to make your technology work for you, and how you can spend less time on email while getting more done.

Time (Priority) Management - Part 2

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2025/10/16

Time management is a fallacy. Time doesn't need you to "manage" it - it's been getting along just fine without you for billions of years. We can't manage time. What we CAN manage is what we do with that time. And yet, the overwhelming evidence is that professionals and managers do NOT "manage what they do with that time."

Time (Priority) Management - Part 1

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2025/10/09

How to Resign - Part 2

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2025/10/02

At least once in your career, and perhaps as many as five times, you're going to have to resign from a position. And this is one of those tasks or responsibilities that no one talks about, no one knows how to do, and therefore… many do it poorly.

How to Resign - Part 1

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2025/09/25

How To Build A Network - Part 2

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2025/09/18

We suggest you Build and Maintain Your Network. It only takes THREE SIMPLE SKILLS, and we'll walk through them.

How To Build A Network - Part 1

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2025/09/11

No matter your role or stage of career, don't think for a moment that someone else is managing your career. Those days are long gone. YOU are managing your career. What you do - not only in job skills, but also in what we call "Transition Skills" - will be the primary determinant of your career success. You're not going to have the richest, most rewarding series of roles and opportunities by allowing someone in HR to know enough about you to get you where you need to be. And succession planning

How to Prepare Your Resume (Your Resume Stinks!) -...

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2025/09/04

Your resume, regardless of the baggage associated with it, is probably your most critical career management document. While it's not something you ought to leave lying around on your desk for others to see, that doesn't mean you ought to treat it like something you dust off only when you really need it. It needs to be reviewed quarterly, believe it or not.

How to Prepare Your Resume (Your Resume Stinks!) -...

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2025/08/28

How to Prepare Your Resume (Your Resume Stinks!) -...

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2025/08/21

Engagement Surveys - How To Help Your Manager Succeed...

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2025/08/14

What you can do to help your manager when they get their engagement survey results.

Engagement Surveys - How To Help Your Manager Succeed...

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2025/08/07

What you can do to help your manager when they get their engagement survey results.

Digital Networking: Best Practices for Building...

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2025/07/31

Building a network in a digital world - a 2025 update to "Building A Network".

Stop Worrying About Job Security

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2025/07/24

Our guidance on the benefits of pursuing financial security instead of job security.

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