High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 4 Reasons You Hate Networking and What to Do Instead

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

• 4 Reasons You Hate Networking and What to Do Instead: "see if you can find events in your area that pertain to your area of expertise or professional interest while combining a social or recreational element."

• 5 Tips to Create Your Best Future: "Gather your facts, balance short-term gains with long-term growth and make a call. Then live with the results."

• 9 Things Ultra Productive People Do Every Day: "In other words, they do the least appetizing, most dreaded item on their to-do list before they do anything else. After that, they’re freed up to tackle the stuff that excites and inspires them."

• Why More Millennials Are Choosing Blue-Collar Jobs: "Employment in the trades is booming, and might even offer better pay than some positions for which a college education is a prerequisite."
• Profit Sharing Boosts Employee Productivity and Satisfaction: "These feelings of reciprocity are often linked to perceptions of fairness and justice underpinning the exchange between labor and rewards, and they can generate organizational commitment and loyalty in a way that a simple bonus or raise cannot."