CareerCast by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Chicago Booth believes in life-long career development to help you maintain your professional edge. Through CareerCast, an online, audio recording series, we give alumni and students the chance to hear experts discuss topics such as crafting your story, making an industry or function change, managing employees, taking the entrepreneurial plunge and more. Because these talks are available online, you can access them anytime, anywhere and as often as you want.
You will have the opportunity to submit questions to the speaker in advance of the broadcast. Then check in the third Friday of each month to listen to the interview. For 24 hours after the broadcast, you can submit follow-up questions.
We’ve created a CareerCast webpage for each broadcast where you can get more information about that month’s topic. The page will feature useful links to tools, books, articles and first-hand stories.
Latest episodes
Apr 15, 2011 • 34min
"Conducting a Successful Cross-Regional Job Search" with Jeremy Rickman
When does a new job actually begin? According to Mary Vonnegut, your new job begins the moment you accept the offer. In the next CareerCast, Mary, Partner of PrimeGenesis and co-author of ONBOARDING: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time, will share her insights, proven solutions, and advanced technologies for successfully transitioning into a new role.
Mar 11, 2011 • 32min
"Using Social Media to Accelerate Your Career" with Michael Margolis
How can social media help you accelerate your career success? According to Michael Margolis, President, Get Storied, "Absolutely. You need to manage your message and reputation live and online." In this CareerCast, Michael will share his knowledge, perspective, and tools to help you accelerate you career progress – a new industry/function, entrepreneurship, or advancing within your current field.
Feb 18, 2011 • 36min
"Reinventing Your Career" with Pamela Mitchell
Does your career path no longer fit? Had you field changed or even gone away? Maybe it's time to reinvent your professional life. In this CareerCast, Pamela Mitchell, former entertainment executive turned coach, author of The Ten Laws of Career Reinvention, and founder and CEO of The Reinvention Institute, will share her insights, wisdom, and direct experience on how to make a career reinvention feasible, successful, and rewarding.
Jan 21, 2011 • 29min
"Enhancing Personal Brand" with Fredrik Härén
Building a strong personal brand is crucial to having a long, successful, and satisfying career – today more than ever before. In the this Career Cast, Fredrik Härén creativity expert, innovation professor, and author of The Idea Book and The Developing Work will share his very unique perspective, experience, and practical tips on about how to build and enhance your personal brand for short and long term career success.
Dec 17, 2010 • 30min
"50/50: The Dual Career Life" with Sharon Meers
Is there a successful approach to the Dual Career Life? According to Sharon Meers, a former managing director of Goldman Sachs and co-author of Getting to 50/50 – the answer is "Yes." In the next Career Cast, Sharon will share her experience, insights, and practical tips on about finding common ground where men and women succeed together.
Nov 19, 2010 • 33min
"Building Enduring Relationships for Success" with Kurt Mortensen
Many people want the benefits of long term relationships, yet are attempting to create them using a short-term tactical approach. In the next CareerCast, author and leading authority on persuasive, motivation, and influence, Kurt Mortensen, will share how to develop endurable mutually beneficial relationships to expand your career advancement and success.
Oct 15, 2010 • 28min
"Re-Inventing Your Career After a Setback" with Tad Waddington
Career setbacks can send individuals into a tailspin and some never recover. Yet others use obstacles to reassess, recommit, and re-establish themselves in a new and often more rewarding career. In this Career Cast, Tad Waddington, Ph.D., Director of Performance Measurement at Accenture, and author of "Lasting Contribution: How to Think, Plan, and Act to Accomplish Meaningful Work," shares his global research, insights and wisdom.
Sep 17, 2010 • 32min
"Using Innovation and Creativity as a Career Strategy" with Robert B. Tucker
Whatever your position or industry, your ability to innovate—to problem solve, experiment, create ideas, drive growth, collaborate, and add value—gives you a personal competitive advantage. Where is the future of your career? Some people, including innovation expert, author, and former professor, Robert Tucker, would argue that it lives on the edge of innovation in the four corners of the world. In this CareerCast, Robert shares his knowledge, wisdom, and experience of traveling the global in search of innovation. He answers questions on how to apply innovation and creativity to your career advancement – now and far into the future.
Aug 20, 2010 • 27min
"Entrepreneurial Expansion: Taking A Venture to the Next Phase" with Greg Wall
Do you dream of entrepreneurship, yet haven't made the leap from your multinational organization? Perhaps you aren't ready for a start-up, but want to be in a fast growing endeavor. In this CareerCast, Greg Wall, President and COO of New Buffalo (and Chicago Booth alumnus,) will share his knowledge, insights, and wisdom about how he is applying his broad and deep functional and general management experiences from large corporations in an entrepreneurial venture poised for growth.
Jul 16, 2010 • 28min
"Leading Cross-Generational Teams" with Jennifer Deal
Are you leading a team of Boomers and Millennials and finding more challenges than opportunities? In this CareerCast, Jennifer Deal, senior research scientist at the Center for Creative Leadership and author of "Retiring the Generation Gap: How Employees Young and Old Can Find Common Ground," shares her findings, insights, and practical advice about how to mine the vast resources of cross-generational teams.
