Useful Career Development App

Tuesday, April 30, 2019
April 2020 - The App to Beat Procrastination: Focus Keeper - a great tool for implementing the Pomodoro Method, a working strategy that involves 25-minute spurts of focused work with a five-minute break. It has a simple interface and charts that track your progress. Stick with it and you’ll be surprised how much it’ll enhance your productivity.
 
January 2020The App To Help You Become More Organised: TickTick - Few apps provide a more all-encompassing planning tool than TickTick. Yes, you can muddle your way through currently with your phone and laptop’s default calendar and reminder systems, but TickTick is the streamlined bridge between both, with added features. Smart date parsing, task duration, and “annoying alerts” are all useful additions that’ll keep you organised and on top of deadlines. 
 

May 2018 - Dropbox for mobile – access and edit documents, upload photos and play your own videos

February 2018 - Learn a new language with DuoLingo. Choose from a variety of languages to learn. This free app includes speaking, writing and reading exercises to help you learn a language. It’s also an added benefit to be able to add another language to your resume!

October 2017Coach.Me (free with optional premium subscriptions for personal coaching)

If encouragement and public accountability are what you need to stay on top of your goals, then Coach.Me might be the right tool for you. The app itself features tracking and goal-setting tools that you can use on your own. Coach.me also has a robust community where users can share goals and offer support and feedback. Both the trackers and the community are free to use when you set up an account. If you’d like to take it to the next level and get expert help on your goals, you can subscribe for varying price points to have regular interactions with a personalized coach.

June 2017Manager Tools

Get instant access to the FREE step-by-step advice that’s been *proven* to transform listeners into highly respected managers, admired leaders and star-performing business professionals. The Manager Tools app is your personal gateway to THE WORLD’S MOST AWARDED business podcast. Install today.

January 2017 - IF by IFTTT (If This Then That)

Helps you improve your productivity by connecting the apps that you love. You can rig up simple connections between applications such as Facebook, Dropbox, Instagram, and Twitter, to help perform certain automatic actions (e.g. sharing every photo you post to Instagram on Twitter). 

November 2016 - Interview Prep Questions (Free)

Interview Prep is a fully-featured flash card app that prepares you for dozens of job interview questions. Each question is accompanied by suggestions that will help you answer these tough questions.

April 2016 - Flipboard (Free)

Are you interested in a ton of topics that impact your career? If so, Flipboard can help you discover recent, trending articles that pertain to your interests. With what appears to every topic imaginable, you simply click on all your interests and they appear in an easy to navigate, magazine like format.

February 2016Hootsuite (Free)

Maintaining your vast digital existence is tough but necessary. Hootsuite helps you monitor Your Facebook, Twitter and Google+ accounts via one streamlined dashboard. Know what your personal and professional network is up to, and share content that showcases your professional aptitude and desire to learn.

December 2015 - Mind Tools app (per Dayna Williams Blog)

This is a free essential skills training site for people interested in excelling their career development in areas like leadership, team management, problem-solving, personal productivity and team-working skills. The Mind Tool app brings your some of the best business skills articles from the Mind Tools websites in handy, fast and easy to use format.