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This cast teaches how to quickly improve your writing.

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This cast explains how to introduce one person to another in social and business settings.

In this cast, we describe how to be effective in everyday conversations.

Our guidance on micro-communications: the small behaviors that make an enormous difference in how you're perceived and how effective you are.

Our guidance on how to answer the interview question 'where do you see yourself in 5 years?'.

Our guidance on how to read a job ad and predict what interview questions will be asked.

Our guidance on how to read a job ad and predict what interview questions will be asked.

Our guidance on answering the interview question 'why do you want to work here?'

Our guidance on how to tell whether you've received a full and complete offer.

This guidance discusses how and when to delegate to the floor.

This guidance discusses how and when to delegate to the floor.

This podcast recommends keeping an ongoing Delta File, a private journal where you record organizational practices you find objectionable so that when you eventually reach a position of greater influence, you'll remember how those decisions felt from below and avoid making the same mistakes yourself.

This is our guidance that gives examples of cover letters for particular roles.

This is our guidance on how to accept a job offer.

This cast describes how to keep your current employer from finding out about your search for a new job.

This cast describes how to decide which jobs to apply for.

This cast gives our most fundamental career advice: get results and build relationships.

This cast gives our most fundamental career advice: get results and build relationships.

This is our guidance for how to create accomplishments for your resume that will be compelling to the people deciding whether to bring you in for an interview.

This cast tells you how to create and use a Career Management Document, the ideal tool for managing your career and making it easy to update your resume.

This cast tells you how to create and use a Career Management Document, the ideal tool for managing your career and making it easy to update your resume.

This cast gives our guidance on answering illegal interview questions.

This cast gives our guidance on answering illegal interview questions.

While not all bosses do, smart and effective bosses usually name someone on their team as their "Number Two." Being a good Number Two is good for your career. Here's how to do it.

While not all bosses do, smart and effective bosses usually name someone on their team as their "Number Two." Being a good Number Two is good for your career. Here's how to do it.

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

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

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

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

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

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 recommendation we make.

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

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

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

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

What is this Horstman's 3rd Law of Interviewing? We'll Take 90% Less Ability for 10% More Attitude Every Day of the Week.

What is this Horstman's 3rd Law of Interviewing? We'll Take 90% Less Ability for 10% More Attitude Every Day of the Week.

Part 2 of our recommendations about calendar management.

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

Our Hall Of Fame guidance on work-family balance.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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."