High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Happiness, Surviving Layoffs, and Career Success

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share these every weekend so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

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• How to Make a Financially Intelligent Career Move: "Most experts agree that you should keep a six-month supply of living expenses in savings just in case the unexpected happens."


• 6 Steps to Surviving a Layoff: "Have an open discussion with your family, including your children, and explain the facts about what has transpired and how this will impact everyone. Ask your family for their help and support over the upcoming months."


• The 3 Things All Humans Crave--And How to Motivate Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: "This means leaders must behave in ways that make employees feel that they are safe, that they belong, and that they matter."


• The Best Definition of Success is the One You Never Use: "
  Determining whether you are successful is based on answering one question: How happy am I? 
  Your level of success is based solely on your answer to that question
  ."


• Stop Fast-Tracking Your Career: "If you're someone who constantly obsesses about becoming an overnight success, you're aiming at entirely the wrong target. Recent research describes the negative correlation between rapid adoption and eventual failure."