High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 4 Ways to Cope with Anxiety at 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!

• 4 Ways to Cope with Anxiety in the Work Place: "In every place I’ve worked, I’ve found a confidante. I let this person know about my anxiety, and update them if anything is happening in my personal life that may cause increased stress."

• Are You Ready to Go Freelance?: "When asked about the biggest challenge they face, half of the independent consultants we surveyed mentioned unpredictability, insecurity, and volatility."

• What You Need (Besides Grit) to Succeed: "You need grit to have a chance. But success requires the action of others, too. Be realistic and give it everything you've got, and be bold if you can about requesting a recommendation."

• 3 Things to Do to Be Better at Decision-Making: "But just knowing your purpose isn’t enough. You must also identify the precise outcomes (the what) you desire to achieve."
• 3 Ways to Prevail as a Female Entrepreneur:"Taking the high road, staying focused on the goals ahead and trusting yourself and your capabilities is most often the best course of action."

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: Life Skills You Need to Increase Likelihood of 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!

• Life Skills You Need to Increase Likelihood of Success: "While this is in no way an exhaustive list, these are the skills that are essential if you want to become successful."

• A 3-Step Checklist to Make a Big Career Decision: "If you’re at a career crossroads, according to Selina Tobaccowala, all you need to do is consider three things: who are the people you are going to work with, how do you feel about the product and do you care about the mission."

• 9 Habits That Will Make Your Life (and You) More Interesting: "Interesting people have learned that the very act of seeking new experiences brightens their spirits and puts them in a good mood."

• 5 Tips to Help You Stick with Your Resolutions This Year: "You don’t have to throw in the towel just yet. Here are some of the changes I’ve made to avoid failure with my New Year’s resolutions."
• A Lesson in Bad Leadership from Netflix's Fyre Festival Documentary:"If your boss dances around and evades serious questions asked by the team and won't give concrete answers, you should start getting a little nervous."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Things You Should Never Say in a Job Interview

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!

• 14 Things You Should Never Say in a Job Interview: "That is a clear signal that you may be using the company name to set yourself up for your next job somewhere else."

• 5 Decisions You Will Always Regret: "Some decisions have repercussions that can last a lifetime. Most of these decisions are made daily, and they require focus and perspective to keep them from haunting you."

• How to Accomplish Your Biggest Career Goals This Year: "The first step to making your career goal happen is to clearly define it and know why you want it."

• The Ugly Truth About Working from Home: "be sure you understand the implications. There are trade-offs to all jobs. Knowing the limitations can help you minimize the downsides."
• Exploring Absurd Ideas is Essential to Your Success:"Simply having a sense of humorous curiosity will unlock a continuous burst of stimulating concepts. Let them be outrageous at first, knowing that each is the potential seed of a future-shaping business idea."

What to Do When You've Accepted the Wrong Job

Decisions, decisions.

Being wanted can be a difficult thing, especially when you are left with some difficult choices. When confronted with multiple opportunities or job offers there is always the risk of making the wrong decision.

Of course, the office is always greener on the other aisle and we have a tendency to long for what we don't have. But what if you're right? What do you do if you have accepted the wrong job?

Here is your list of dos and don'ts:

Don't panic and make a rash decision. Making a quick decision that you've made the wrong decision will only demonstrate to others, including potential employers, that you are not an effective decision maker. An impetuous decision about your job might leave you unemployed for an extended period of time.

Speaking of time, do give it some. Time, that is. Be patient and get to know your new supervisor and colleagues, along with the main responsibilities of the job. Perhaps the job will grow on you and you'll find it suits you well. If not, give the job enough time that you can make a move within your own company without appearing reckless, or you have an opportunity to take another job with a new employer.

Do dive in. Even if the job isn't right for you be sure to give it your best while you are there. Meet as many people as possible, and learn as much as you can about the employer and the job. You never know where your career fortunes might lead, or when your path might cross with your colleagues or even see you return to the same employer.

Don't burn bridges. The above might be true so leave on good terms to the best of your ability. Don't speak ill of your colleagues, your boss, or your employer and attempt to take responsibility for the match not being a good fit.

Hopefully, you'll only make a bad career choice once.

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 6 Ways to Make Better Decisions

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!

• 6 Ways to Make Better Decisions: "The best solutions come by spending more time defining the problem. Clarifying the problem, goal or objective crystalizes the information search."

• 9-5 is Out. Try the 1-6 Instead: "Being committed to the three things I outlined above has shown me, clearly, that my eight-plus hour work days were really just five hour work days dragged out over eight hours."

• 8 Ways to Run Effective Meetings: "We are very clear of what our goal is in the meeting and what our deliverables are coming out of the meeting."

• 4 Habits of People Who are Always Learning New Skills: "But those who persevere generally have their eye on a larger prize — a new job, a promotion, or the chance to lead a project. I encourage people to determine a specific career objective and keep it front of mind as they learn."
• 3 Ways to Avoid a Nasty Breakup When Quitting Your Job: "I have often gone into telling my boss that I’m quitting with a copy of my resignation letter, which has helped me to stay professional and focused since it can be used like a script. Then make sure that it gets sent to your superiors and HR."

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: How to Succeed? Get More Sleep

Each week we present our Daily Leap Career Video of the Week. The video we share presents news or advice related to career development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.

In this video, Arianna Huffington , co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of thirteen books, shares a small idea that can awaken much bigger ones: the power of a good night's sleep. As she explains, adequate sleep leads to increased productivity, happiness, and smarter decision-making.

Learn more in the video below:

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Building Mental Strength

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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• 8 Things to Do Before Starting a Business: "Rather than ditching your job, setting up shop for yourself and just hoping that the clients come, try out your business idea on the side first – while you keep your day job."

• The New Rules of Being Professional in the Workplace: "Dependability means you follow through by doing what you say you're going to do. This quality will help differentiate you from the masses. Being a person of your word is a valuable reputation to establish."                                                      
• Mentally Strong People: The 13 Things They Avoid: "Mentally strong people don't complain (much) about bad traffic, lost luggage, or especially about other people, as they recognize that all of these factors are generally beyond their control."


• What Inexperienced Leaders Get Wrong: "Good management is a series of well thought-through actions including phases, communications, checkpoints, customer-impact-testing, metrics, contingencies, and feedback loops, designed to produce specified results on time and on budget, based on known circumstances."


• How to Inspire Your Team on a Daily Basis: "One of the key qualities when it comes to leadership is the ability to be decisive under pressure. Leadership is all about making decisions and sticking to those decisions."

The Success Secret of Boring Dressers

President Barak Obama's suits come exclusively in two colors: blue and black. Dr. Cornell West of Princeton perpetually wears the same black suit, white shirt, and black shoes. Mark Zuckerberg's wardrobe consists almost exclusively of grey t-shirts. And you can hardly say "black turtleneck" with Steve Jobs popping up in your mind.

Who cares about the awful fashion sense of these men? You should, because it demonstrates a strong principle of successful decision making.

Take Steve Jobs, Apple's late-CEO: how many decisions do you think he had to make in a day? Anecdotally, I would guess…a lot. Further, what do you think was the significance of those decisions? Considering his reputation as being very (some would say overly) involved with the development of Apple products and their design factoring prominently into their success, you could assume that his decisions were very important. The lesson here is that successful people making significant decisions find a way to remove extraneous or unimportant decisions from their lives. The decisions that they reduce to the simple ones (i.e. what to wear that day) allow the more time to focus on the big, important decisions.

Options are all around us, and it's easy to become overwhelmed. Go to a discount store and marvel over how many different kinds of shampoo, spaghetti sauce, or pens there are. Go online and you can spend hours if not days shopping for a dress or a shirt. This isn't to say that clothing or shampoo isn't important, but does it deserve the time that you are giving it?

Reflect on your career: what decisions have you been avoiding because you have been wrapped up in the "small" ones. Reflect on your life: what decisions are you spending significant amounts of time on that, quite frankly, do not need all of that time? Find your own areas of improvement and make a commitment to change, and write about it in the comments below.