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 good, even an exceptional, candidate. But you have to change how you interview in that situation, and here’s how.

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Smart Interviewing In A Downturn

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 you’ve also got to reassure the recruiter that your choice isn’t ONLY about location.

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Career Tools Cast #1: How to Handle Location in an Interview

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 that providing references is generally frowned upon. More and more, HR says you can’t. But you can.

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How to Provide a Reference

This cast explains a simple technique to consider the impact of decisions on multiple stakeholders.

Decision-making (which is more than choosing!) is a core part of our jobs as managers. But yet again, there’s not a lot of training or development spent on it. Everyone hates learning it on their own…but then they visit that same strategy on their directs. Silly. Let’s learn how to make effective decisions.

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Simple Stakeholder Decision Analysis Tool

This cast shows how to facilitate the capture of Ground Rules when starting a meeting. 
 
Finally we return to discussing presentations!  Both Mark and Mike have recently been in the audience 
for professional presentations, and it was an eye opening experience for both of us.  We think every 
manager – and by definition if you’re a manager you have to assume you’re going to be a presenter – 
ought to have presentation training. 
 
And we think we’re the ones to do it. ;‐) 

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Facilitating Ground Rules To Start A Meeting