Our guidance on how to attend happy hour.

Your boss and your co-workers are going to happy hour. Should you go? Should you drink? Should you just go home and read a story to your kids/go to the gym/do what you want to do? Do you really have to hang out with the people you work with all day? In this guidance we give you all the answers.

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Our guidance on how to cover for your boss – the email portion.

Some time ago, we gave you our guidance for going to meetings for your boss. When your boss is on vacation or out sick, you may need to do more than just go to meetings. In this guidance, we’ll cover email.

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Our guidance on how to use DiSC with groups.

One of questions we get most often once people understand DiSC is, how do I use it with a group? Listeners are either sending an email to a group, or addressing a group in a presentation, and they want to know how to use DiSC to be most effective. Here’s how – it might surprise you!

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Our guidance on accepting offers – how not to do it!

We covered how to decline an offer a while ago and we still got questions about how to accept offers. Then we published ‘Accepting an Offer’ and we still got questions about what’s okay and what’s not. This cast covers questions we’ve been asked about accepting offers and behaviors which are definitely NOT okay.

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We take 20 example resumes and give you our analysis of what they say to a recruiter.

This cast started as a question: how could we help people understand how their resume is read by a recruiter. We know what you want to say – and we know how that’s interpreted. We needed some examples, so we put out a request. Over 100 listeners volunteered to have their resume critiqued.

We’re not going to go over the format of resumes in this cast. You know our recommendations there (and if you don’t, you can find them in ‘Your Resume Stinks’). For these casts, we’re just looking at the content.

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Our guidance on the constituents of an offer, and knowing when you have a complete one.

Many people tell us they've been made an offer of employment, and when we ask for details, they don't have any. If your offer doesn't have all the constituent parts, it's not really an offer, it's a suggestion. Here's how to know when you really do have an offer.

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Our guidance on how to proofread a document.

Proofreading is a skill that will improve the quality of your work. It’s also a skill which will open doors for you, if you become known for being good at it. Here’s how to do it.

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Our guidance on how to create a 90 day new job plan.

‘What will you do in your first 90 days’ is a common interview question – especially at mid and more senior levels. Whilst we can console ourselves that the Manager Tools guidance ‘fit in, fit in, fit in’ is right, interviewers tend to want to hear about action. Many of you want to take action too. So, okay, we give in. In this series, we’re giving you the areas where you can take action. In this cast: who to find.

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Our guidance on accepting offers – how not to do it!

We covered how to decline an offer a while ago and we still got questions about how to accept offers. Then we published 'Accepting an Offer' and we still got questions about what's okay and what’s not. This cast covers questions we’ve been asked about accepting offers and behaviors which are definitely NOT okay.

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We take 20 example resumes and give you our analysis of what they say to a recruiter.

This cast started as a question: how could we help people understand how their resume is read by a recruiter. We know what you want to say – and we know how that’s interpreted. We needed some examples, so we put out a request. Over 100 listeners volunteered to have their resume critiqued.

For this cast, we picked 2. We’ve anonymised the resumes by giving them names from characters from The Walton’s and by removing phone numbers and addresses. Otherwise, they’re just as we received them.

We’re not going to go over the format of resumes in this cast. You know our recommendations there (and if you don’t, you can find them in ‘Your Resume Stinks’). For these casts, we’re just looking at the content.

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