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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, …

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How Not To Multitask

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

Apr 02, 2026
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How To Answer Questions About Career History - Part 1

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

Mar 19, 2026
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How to Give a Decision Briefing - Part 2

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

Mar 12, 2026
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How to Give a Decision Briefing - Part 1

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

Mar 05, 2026
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The Ethical Professional

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 …

Feb 26, 2026
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What Is Your Salary Expectation?

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

Feb 19, 2026
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What Is Your Current Situation?

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

Feb 12, 2026
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360 Reviews - Providing Input - Part 2

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

Feb 05, 2026
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360 Reviews - Providing Input - Part 1

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

Jan 29, 2026
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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.

Jan 15, 2026
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The Basics of Calendar Management - Part 2

Part 2 of our recommendations about calendar management.

Jan 08, 2026
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The Basics of Calendar Management - Part 1

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

Jan 01, 2026
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Work-Life Balance: The Yellow Peanut M&M Analogy - HOF 2025

Our Hall Of Fame guidance on work-family balance.

Dec 25, 2025
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Feel, Felt, Found

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

Dec 18, 2025
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How to Answer the Leadership Style Question

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

Dec 11, 2025
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Horstman's Wager

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

Dec 04, 2025
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Preparing For Your Review - HOF 2025

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

Nov 27, 2025
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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
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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 …

Nov 13, 2025
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