This cast explains an important career search question, and how to answer it: “What do you want to do, and where do you want to do it?”
You’re going to be asked this question, and you have to know how to answer it, without limiting yourself. It’s one of those fleeting career moments whose outcome is defined likely BEFORE the moment arrives.

In this cast we debunk the myth that change briefings are about logic, and suggest a different path: persuading individual team members.

You’re going to be asked to lead, or at least brief on, change efforts that your organization is engaged in. Regardless of whether it’s your idea or someone else’s, you don’t win people’s energy to your cause by showing how right you are. You win their support by showing them why this plan works for THEM.

This cast discusses a way to harvest our work on annual reviews for use during layoff discussions.

Nobody likes preparing annual reviews. Even those of us who are good at it know that far too often they sit on someone’s desk, unused. But during a downturn, Annual reviews are an important piece of raw material that helps effective managers deal with a Steel Cage Death Match meeting.

This cast makes the case for the most important thing you do at the beginning of your professional life: get good grades in College/University.
 
This is the first in a series of what surely will be many Career Tools casts about college and university as preparation for one’s professional adult life. As with so many other [...]

According to Dev-Team, iPhone 3G software unlocking tool will be available on 31 December 2008. This tool has been codenamed “yellowsn0w”. With yellowsn0w, all iPhone 3G on the planet do not need sim unlock such as turboSim any more, …

This cast describes how to interview effectively during a downturn, particularly for difficult to fill positions.
When you get to fill a position during a down market, it usually means it’s a critical position, and/or one that’s been open a long time. Because you’re in a buyer’s market, it’s usually pretty easy to find a [...]

This cast describes a simple way to handle the interviewing question, “What’s your location
preference?”
Many people lose great job opportunities because they don’t know how to talk about WHERE they
want to work without scaring the recruiter. There’s a right way to do it. It’s okay to prefer a certain location … but [...]

This cast describes effective ways to provide references when asked.

Your directs and former directs are going to ask you to provide them references. Yet you’ve probably heard that providing references is generally frowned upon. More and more, HR says you can’t. But you can.