High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: The Mindset You Need to Thrive in the Future of Work

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 Mindset You Need to Thrive in the Future of Work: "To stay competitive, we need to get comfortable making difficult, complicated, higher-order decisions more regularly."

• 6 Ways to Rebound from Interview Rejection: "Don’t project thoughts, opinions or impressions onto the employer that they may not even have. Ironically, employment rejection is usually not about you! Accept that a rational business reason was likely the basis for your rejection, as hard as this may be."

• How Incredibly Successful People Think: "unsuccessful people, when they have a big dream and start thinking about what’s going to be required to accomplish that dream, they get very limiting in their beliefs about themselves and what’s possible."

• Why Do Employees Stay? A Clear Career Path and Good Pay: "workers who don’t see a clear progression from their current role to a better position in their company ultimately turn to opportunities elsewhere."
• 4 Habits of Highly Profitable Entrepreneurs: "the most effective entrepreneurs have a method of allocating their time effectively. One strategy is to plan your time in advance by using the bucket system."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Networking and Getting the Most Out of a Conference

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!

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• How to Get the Most Out of a Conference: "Perhaps one-on-one meetings are better for you or small group settings. If so ... mak(e) a reservation at a local restaurant for about eight people before the conference. Then invite people from your wish list."


• Become a Networking Beast: "Avoid rambling off the reasons why your product or service is the best. Instead, ask everyone whom you speak with if there is anything you can do to help their business."


• Mika Brzezinski on Leadership and Knowing Your Worth: "Don't ever say that you will walk if you won't, but if you get to the point where you can no longer do your job knowing that you are not getting what you are worth, it might be time to take that drastic step. Plan ahead for future employment if you find yourself in a place where you have to make demands."


• 6 Interviewing Mistakes: "As with the elevator pitch, it’s best to have a smart, genuine question prepared before the interview. All too often, people to go into the interview with the expectation that a brilliant question will materialize somewhere between the hellos and the wind-down, but it just doesn’t work that way."


• 3 Steps to Mapping Your Career Path: "Your values, strengths, interests and compensation are building blocks that make up the cornerstone of fulfillment in your career."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 7 Myths about 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 them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

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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."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: What Does Your Boss Want?

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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• 3 Telltale Signs You're On The Wrong Career Path: "When work feels like a drag before, during and after each day, it’s a clear sign that one of your work variables could use a change."

• 6 Productive Ways to Avoid the 3 p.m. Slump: "Catch up [on industry-related articles] and get inspired by new ideas, and share your new-found learning and knowledge with your colleagues, team members and network."                                                      
• 5 Simple Social Media Tactics That Lead to a Job: "Across all industries, there is a whopping 94 percent adoption of social recruiting. These days, recruiting and hiring are all about networking, both in-person and online."


• What Your Boss Really Wants From You: "Your boss wants you to be ... Clear on where the business is going in the broader sense and in the longer term. You should have a respectable point of view on where the company should be going and why."


• Truly Great Leaders Create the Spirit of Consensus: "Motivation and morale are key components of any successful business, and nothing damages them more than a leader who doesn't take their staff into consideration."

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week

We're presenting a new feature here at the Daily Leap: a video of the week. The video we share will present news or advice related to career development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.


Today's featured video comes from an msnbc.com report on a school program in Georgia that has students select a career path and begin training in that career as early as the 6th grade. Take a look and let us know what you think. 


Is the 6th grade too early to select a career path?   

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