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Career Tools

Manager Tools•www.manager-tools.com
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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.
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Episodes

Feel, Felt, Found

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

Dec 18, 2025

Horstman's Wager

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

Dec 04, 2025

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.

Nov 20, 2025

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 true in the technology space.

Nov 13, 2025

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 true in the technology space.

Nov 06, 2025

Got Email? - Part 2

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.

Oct 30, 2025

Got Email? - Part 1

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.

Oct 23, 2025

Time (Priority) Management - Part 2

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."

Oct 16, 2025

Time (Priority) Management - Part 1

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."

Oct 09, 2025

How to Resign - Part 2

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.

Oct 02, 2025

How to Resign - Part 1

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.

Sep 25, 2025

How To Build A Network - Part 1

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 ...

Sep 11, 2025

How to Prepare Your Resume (Your Resume Stinks!) - Part 3

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.

Sep 04, 2025

How to Prepare Your Resume (Your Resume Stinks!) - Part 2

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.

Aug 28, 2025

How to Prepare Your Resume (Your Resume Stinks!) - Part 1

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.

Aug 21, 2025

20th Anniversary Cast (CT)

Welcome to a special episode of Manager Tools. Today, you're listening to the live recording of our 20th anniversary podcast, captured in front of a fantastic audience of managers and leaders just like you.

Jul 03, 2025
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