Our guidance on how to effectively email with people who have combination DiSC profiles.

We have covered email and DiSC profiles, and in that series we concentrated on the profiles which have a single 'high' tendency. What do you do if the recipient of your email has two high tendencies? A high D/I for example? In this cast, we’ll help you with that.

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Our guidance documents to travel with.

This is our most basic advice on the documents you need to travel with. As with many things Career Tools, if you’ve been traveling for work for 20 years, you’ll have worked this out for yourself. For those who are new to the workforce, or for travel for work, we hope to save you some time and heartache.

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This cast gives our guidance communicating when you find yourself in a matrix.

We’ve said before that we don’t like matrices. Despite the fact that on paper, they should make everyone more productive, people are human, not blocks. As the Bible says: “No man can have two masters”. If you’re stuck with it, though, how can you make yourself more productive?

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Our guidance how on not to disagree.

How not to disagree? Isn’t that the same as agreeing? No. And, there’s ways to do it and ways not to.

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Part 2 of our series in which 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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Our guidance on how to choose a book.

We’ve said before that reading is one of the most important things an individual contributor, manager and executive needs to do each week. Reading (books) is one of the ways you understand subjects more deeply, explore new ideas and allow the moment of creation to take place – the one where your circumstance melds with someone else’s idea and something new is born. But if you don’t read and you don’t know where to start, how do you choose a book?

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Our guidance on accepting offers.

We covered how to decline an offer a while ago and we still get questions about how to accept offers. It’s not just about saying ‘yes’. There’s the when and how of that yes to consider.

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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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Our guidance how to make moving for your job easy.

Moving isn’t easy at the best of times. Moving at the same time as changing your job, or even just changing locations for the same job adds a degree of complexity which makes the whole event even more stressful. There are plenty of websites with guidance on the logistics of moving, but less with specific guidance about how to move with work. So how do you make it less stressful?

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Our guidance how to make moving for your job easy.

Moving isn’t easy at the best of times. Moving at the same time as changing your job, or even just changing locations for the same job adds a degree of complexity which makes the whole event even more stressful. There are plenty of websites with guidance on the logistics of moving, but less with specific guidance about how to move with work. So how do you make it less stressful?

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