High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Start a Business in a Day

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!

• How to Start a Business in a Day:"take a little time to determine how many businesses like yours are out there and what services they offer. How can you differentiate yourself from them?"

• 10 Free Online Courses to Learn More About Business: "a number of top universities across the world offer free online classes for you to bolster your skills as a leader and business owner."

• How to Run Meetings You Actually Want to Attend: "The meeting you want to have is the one that leaves you feeling energized, with more clarity and focus than you had going in."

• A Psychologist's Advice for Talking About "Weaknesses" in Interviews: "your ability to pretend that you are thinking on the spot - or, even better, that you have been put on the spot - and have been forced to sincerely report on your biggest weaknesses, is likely to make a better impact on your interviewers."
• The Best Career Advice I've Ever Received: "Listening to their stories and being receptive to their advice continue to guide me and help me reach new milestones. Below are just a few of the best words of advice I’ve ever received."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: The Most Important Skill for the 21st Century

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!

• The Most Important Skill for the 21st Century: "
  When people embrace lifelong learning, assimilating new skills isn’t a source of fear and stress—it’s just another part of their career journey
  ."

• Free Online Courses That Will Boost Your Career: "there are some that can help any entrepreneur or aspiring entrepreneur, teaching you such valuable skills as how to create a product, get a startup off the ground, or perform app marketing."

• The Unbelievable Power of Belief Systems: "If you are convinced that something is unattainable, you will be unable to reach it no matter how hard you work."

• How to Prevent Burnout: "Burnout happens when people aren’t given enough time to disconnect, rest, focus on other aspects of life and recharge."
• 5 Secrets of Success According to Jeff Bezos: "Make a list of your big-vision items. Frame it and keep it accessible. Those are your uncompromisable items. Everything else is negotiable."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 3 Ways to Be Helpful to Your Network

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!

• 3 Ways to Be Helpful to Your Network: "A network is a community for sharing information, and good resources share without expecting anything in return. So offer your knowledge freely. This creates a level of trust with your network."
• 3 Daily Habits of Very Successful People: "Successful people always know what is important in the moment, they are relentless in getting it done, and they don’t get distracted by unimportant stuff."
• 3 Ways to Use MOOCs to Advance Your Career: "There’s never been more free- or nearly-free quality educational resources available to anyone with an internet connection. Why wouldn’t you find a way to use it to improve your skills and career?"
• 10 Uncomfortable Deeds That Will Make Your More Successful: "Social interaction is good for your mood (even when you don’t like it), expands your network, exposes you to new ideas and boosts your self-confidence."
• Why Failure is the Key to Workplace Culture Success: "Making mistakes matures the brain, resulting in more efficient synapses and fundamentally altered neurons. In short, failure can actually make you smarter."

6 Resources to Learn Something New

If your are looking to advance in your career, develop new skills, or learn something new

you are living in the golden age of free, online educational resources. You can learn just about anything for free online through many great resources or MOOCs (massive open online course). 

Below are 6 resources to get you started with enhancing your skills and knowledge for fun or to help you get that promotion.

1. The School of Life is "devoted to developing emotional intelligence through the help of culture." 

2. Coursera is an "education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free." 

3. Codecademy is "teaching the world how to code." 

4. MIT OpenCourseWare is "a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content."

5. Khan Academy"offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom." 

6. Open Culture offers "high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community." 

Do you have a resource to recommend?