High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: The Most Important Career Moves To Make In Your 20s, 30s, 40s & 50s

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 Career Moves to Make During the Stages of Your Life: "There is no more waiting for someone else to decide how your career progresses, or waiting to be in the job market only when you are unhappy or when you are forced to job search."

• Why You Need to Embrace Your Ambition: "You’re scared, and I understand what it is to be scared of the unknown. But you’re not going to achieve anything if you don’t get comfortable with the idea of achievement."

• How to Turn Your Side Hustle into a Full-Time Career: "you may have dreamed of quitting your 9 to 5 to pursue your true passion, but maybe you’re not convinced it’s truly possible."

• A Good Meeting Needs a Clear Decision-Making Process: "we’ve seen leaders give plenty of thought to the data and analysis needed to kick off and carry on these sorts of discussions. But they typically don’t consider how they’d like to finish them."
• Why Micro-Internships Will Be the Next Big Thing:"It gives students the opportunity to work in a field that may not be available to them due to geographic reasons."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 6 Habits of Ambitious People

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• Stop Trying to Find a 'Real' Job: "Times have changed and will change even more. So why not use this time to re-invent yourself, do the work that matters and create a career that actually makes you stand out and be the remarkable you that you can be?"


• 6 Habits of Ambitious People: "Find role models. Befriend and learn from mentors. Make friends with people smarter than you and more successful in fields you are interested in."


• 6 Ways to Be More Productive at Work: "If your office allows you to take breaks during the day, take advantage of it, even if you only take five minutes instead of 15. Get up, walk around, go outside and get some fresh air."


• How to Answer the Interview Question 'Tell Me About Yourself': "These days we’re all consultants. A job interview is a great place to sell your consulting services, even if you’re going after a salaried job!"


• Overcoming Mental Barriers to Success: "To be a standout success you must be radical enough to make up your own rules, be willing to rise above the status quo, and have the willingness to take great risk to secure your unique place in the business world."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Productivity and Early Mornings

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• Why Productive People Get Up Early: "Whether by waking up before dawn or truly vacating your vacation, building a schedule that protects your love for what you do is critical to optimizing the quality of your life—and your work."


• Ambition is Not a Dirty Word: "The more successful people I meet—both men and women—the more I realize ambition itself is mostly roses and sweetness, drawing others in to who you are and what you see."


• 5 Ways to Improve Your Performance: "When you don’t have tedious tasks pulling at you from all directions you can focus 100 percent of your attention on the objectives that directly impact the growth of your business."


• How to Overcome the Midday Slump: "Any kind of physical movement will temporarily boost your alertness and energy levels....You might take a brisk walk around the block, walk up and down the stairs, do some jumping jacks or push-ups, or even just stretch at your desk."


• 6 Changes to Make to Your Job Search: "The best strategy for uncovering job opportunities is to diversify how you search for jobs. Use recruiters, either working inside a company's human resources department or a third party that's contracted to source talent."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 7 Myths about Success

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• 7 Myths about Success: "Success can be experienced every day in sharing a smile, completing a project, and serving someone. It's about thinking differently every day about life."


• Who Chose Your Career Path for You?: "You get to choose your career path and you also must choose. It’s your life, your path and your career. Who cares what your guidance counselor told you years ago or what your mom always wanted you to be?"


• 9 Tips for Making College and Career Choices: "If you've been working for just a few years and feel really relaxed and comfortable, then it’s time to shake it up. You should be in a constant state of learning—especially this early in your career."


• How to Stay Motivated While Working from Home: "While you should take advantage of professional networking websites, the important thing is to take these connections offline – especially when you don't have a regular routine that allows you to bump into colleagues in the elevator or chat up a potential new client while waiting in line to grab coffee."


• Are You Setting Your Sights Too Low?: "You need to keep in mind that a company often doesn't know exactly what kind of person it's looking for until it finds him or her."