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This podcast describes a couple of simple techniques to help you remember people's names.

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In this podcast we provide simple Annual Layoff Immunization Guidelines: five things to do BEFORE a layoff that take about 15 minutes a day over a couple of weeks and noticeably reduce your career risk.

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This cast reveals the most important concept a laid off professional must know: Finances Rule. Most of us fear being laid off. It's a good fear to have, frankly - being laid off is a difficult passage for anyone. The fear of being re-employed, the fear of loss of status, the loss of income, and risk to one's family are all good reasons to be scared. And yet, those who have been laid off express very different emotions than those of us who have not. And when those who have been laid off are asked about it, it becomes clear why. It's not JUST that they've "been through it once and made it." It's what they say next: "I'm ready for the next time." And that's why you're scared: you're not ready.

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We've talked about the importance of interpersonal skills before, with casts on topics like handshakes, meal etiquette, and how to be effective in everyday conversations. As a professional, career management skills are what determines whether or not you'll be successful. The reason for that is often times the most important business gets done at dinner, at parties, at conferences, at conventions, at product launch events, at annual meetings, on the golf course, at non-profit fundraisers. So, what do you when you walk into a party and don't seem to know anyone there?

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Our guidance on how to understand the communication flow in an interview.

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This cast describes Career Tools' recommendations for how to attend a meeting when your boss asks you to go in his/her place.

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You're a professional, and that makes you human. You're human, and that makes you mess up. You mess up, and that means you apologize.

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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.