High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Live a Longer, Happier & More Productive Life

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 Live a Longer, Happier & More Productive Life: "If you’re worrying, you’re not working. Many people waste energy worrying instead of focusing on the immediate problem and potential solutions -- which is much more beneficial."

• 4 Ways to Attract & Hire Your Company's Next Leaders: "Millennials recognize that leadership skills are critical to professional growth, but believe that businesses are not doing enough to build the next generation of leadership. If businesses would do more to develop leaders, Millennials would be more loyal."

• 7 Simple Ways to Spread Kindness: "Acting generously not only heightens your happiness, it also releases nearly 50 percent more of oxytocin—the feel-good chemical in your brain—and boosts creativity, resilience and problem-solving skills."

• Why New Hires Should Start on Friday: "No matter how much you love your job, Mondays come with stress. There are meetings to prepare for, schedules to plan and a whole week of deadlines looming over you. Suffice to say this isn’t the optimal environment to help a new hire settle in."
• How to Avoid Hiring Toxic Employees: "The more team members who interview a candidate, the better. Each candidate that begins the interview process with your company should be introduced to a well-rounded roster of current employees who will be calibrating the candidate for the role."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 4 Pieces of Career-Launching Advice Every Millennial Should Hear

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 Pieces of Career-Launching Advice Every Millennial Should Hear: "Whatever the specifics, naysayers are going to be a reality in your life. The kicker is, the mob mentality you hear isn't necessarily right. You can take what others say and turn it around."

• If You Aspire to Be a Great Leader, Be Present: "To truly engage other human beings and create meaningful connections, we need to silence our inner voices and be fully present — and being more mindful can help."

• How to Organize Your Day to Set Yourself Up for Success: "If you’re constantly frazzled on the job, logging super-long hours with little to show for it at the end of the day, chances are good that you’re mismanaging your time."

• 9 Ways to Stay Productive When You Work From Home: "Whether you work in a home office, kitchen or living room, if there’s “stuff” around that reminds you of your household chores, your eyes will go there and you’ll get distracted. Whenever you work from home, claim a clutter-free zone."
• 18 Ways You Can Make Money Right Now: "We're so interconnected that there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of ways you can make money, almost immediately, from the comfort of your home."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 3 Rules for Turning Stress into 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!

• 3 Rules for Turning Stress into Success: "Always be on the alert for negative situations that can be dangerous to your health, personal safety, financial speculation and emotional relationships."

• How to Handle Conflict at Your Business: "Don’t shy away from conflict. Tackle it as soon as possible before it escalates. Avoiding conflict can be a bad thing. Tension might increase and the conflict can become worse."

• 3 Simple Steps to Boost Productivity Now: "Productivity starts with accountability. The simplest yet most effective way to boost your productivity is to create a to-do list. However, this list has to be treated as a set of attainable goals."

• 11 Productivity Hacks for Work-from-Home Newbies: "The secret to working from home is knowing the best time of day to work. This will ensure that you’re not only productive, but that you can do more quality work."
• A Millennials Guide to Asking for a Promotion: "Understanding the timing, what to present to your supervisor, and creating a plan if it doesn’t pan out is essential."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Tell if a Company's Culture is Right For You

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 Tell if a Company's Culture is Right For You: "Congratulations, you got the job! Now you have to decide whether to take it. You’ve done your research and know the ins and outs of the company’s public profile, but how can you assess cultural fit?"

• Can Gratitude Make Millennials More Successful?: "Some of the most productive people seek out opportunities to continually learn, grow, and reflect."

• How to Become a Master Connector in 5 Easy Steps: "What I noticed was, they all shared (and share) a willingness to connect those they know with one another. They want their friends to be friends with their friends, and always consider who should know who."

• 10 Must-Have Apps to Streamline Your Life: "If you tend to surf social media throughout the day and see articles that pique your interest but are fairly long, this is the app for you. Pocket allows you to save articles, videos and websites for later when you’ll have time to digest them"
• Fun Journaling Prompts to Transform Your Boring Gratitude Practice: "It's no secret that practicing gratitude is a key to success. Some of the world's most successful people swear by it."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Always Be Ready for a Great New Job

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 Always Be Ready for a Great New Job: "Stay in touch with the folks you will rely on to vouch for you when the time comes to change jobs. It's much easier to update a warm relationship than to try and jump start a cold one."

• How to Make Your Workplace Joyful: "I actually think it's easier to have an extraordinary workplace culture in a smaller organization, simply because you touch your people more. As the leader of the organization, you're in touch with your people that much more."

• 9 Things Successful People Never Do in the Morning: "Successful people never find themselves getting distracted by the television or decide to watch just one show. Instead, they dive right into the tasks they want to tackle for the day."

• 20 Secrets to Avoiding Burnout: "Go to bed an extra hour early or go to a movie. Do things you haven't had time for. Go for a run. It's about allowing yourself to focus on yourself outside of work."
• How to Help Millennials Overcome Failure: "Help them to view failure as a toll booth instead of a roadblock. With a tollbooth, a price must be paid to move forward."

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: Advice for Millennials Working at Their First Job

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

In the video below Gary Vaynerchuk offers some advice to millennials working in their first job and advises them to "put your head down and work".

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 7 Ways to Make Yourself Indispensable Without Being Overworked

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!

• 7 Ways to Make Yourself Indispensable Without Being Overworked: "Being enthusiastic and energetic about new tasks and challenges is also empowering, and may help coworkers embrace challenges with more energy as well. Supervisors consider the employees who empower others as valuable parts of a team."

• 3 Signs You've Outgrown Your Job: "
  Acquiring new skills not only keeps your job exciting, it also allows for growth and new possibilities. 
  Ask yourself: Did I learn something new today? If not, when was the last time I learned something new?
  "

• The Only Way to Engage and Retain Millennial Workers: "
  You want to keep millennials? Don't allow them to get bored. 
  Millennials love to learn
  ."

• 10 Ways to Become a More Charismatic Person: "Make your conversations relatable to those you’re speaking with. Use stories that position you as an average person in whom others can see themselves."
• 7 Core Beliefs of Great Bosses: "Exceptional bosses see change as an opportunity for improvement. They constantly adapt their approach and embrace change to stay ahead of the curve."

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: 6 Things Millennials Need to Know About the Modern Workplace

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

The video below from Entrepreneur presents six things that millennials should know about the contemporary workplace, including the understanding that promotions and advancing in a career takes patience, hard work, and time.

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."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 4 Essential Career Tips for Millennials

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 Essential Career Tips for Millennials: "Traveling, especially to third world and developing countries will expose you to new cultures, new ways of living, and teach you more about yourself. Travel expands your personality, and gives you time to find a career path you’ll truly enjoy, more so than if you immediately took a job out of college."
• LinkedIns Top 3 Secrets to Getting Hired: "We’ve learned it’s not necessarily your best friend who’s going to help you land that next job. It's more likely to be your best friend’s former coworker, or even that coworker’s neighbor."
• 9 Bad Habits You Must Break to Be More Productive: "It takes you 15 consecutive minutes of focus before you can fully engage in a task. Once you do, you fall into a euphoric state of increased productivity called flow. Research shows that people in a flow state are five times more productive than they otherwise would be."
• 7 Things You Can Do to Build an Awesome Business Brand: "Brands that embody a deeper sense of purpose have a significant advantage over those that don’t — they have something to say and stand for, not just something to sell."
• 7 Ways to Persist When You Want to Give Up: "It can be easy to focus all your energy on reaching your ultimate goal. But if the only thing you can see is your end destination, you’ll miss the beauty of the journey along the way. The new experiences and welcome surprises provide much-needed fuel to keep going."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Getting Fired, Great Jobs for Veterans, and More

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!

• 8 Great Jobs for Veterans in 2016: "An analysis of which positions were well suited to former military personnel looking for new careers."
• 10 Ways Successful People Stay Calm: "90 percent of top performers are skilled at managing their emotions in times of stress in order to remain calm and in control."
• 4 Unconventional Rules for Building a Better Professional Network: "To truly cultivate new ideas and harness the ones that will drive you forward, you need a team of mentors to rid you of your comfort zone."
• Why We Need to Stop Thinking of Getting Fired as a Bad Thing: "The duration for each mission is typically one to three years, and once that time is up, the manager and employee should work together to come up with a new tour of duty, depending on how to best progress the employee’s career."
• 4 Ways Millennial Women Can Boost Their Careers: "This includes speaking up at department meetings, getting involved in a variety of initiatives outside the scope of your job and strengthening ties with allies."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 6 Ways to Conquer Self-Doubt

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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• 6 Ways to Conquer Self-Doubt: "No matter how you may feel on a given day, believe that you are a professional with a contribution to make."


• How to Get the Most Out of Your References: "Your references can't help you if they aren't in the loop. Once you have received the green light that it is okay to use your reference you need to prep them."


• 5 tips to Accept Constructive Criticism: "Demonstrate with your words and manner that you’re sincerely open to feedback, and people will tell you what you really need to know."


• 30 Second Habits to Boost Your Career and Finances: "As soon as you pour that cup of morning joe, pinpoint your top three—and only three—most crucial to-dos for the day."


• 4 Ways to Satisfy (and Retain) Millennial Employees: "If the employee is working every weekend, it’s time for a bonus. If you really can’t afford a pay increase, look for other ways of rewarding their efforts."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 3 Tips to Identify Your Life Purpose

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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• 3 Tips to Identify Your Life Purpose: "Look for a unifying thread or pattern that's consistent throughout your past experience that's also consistent with your passion and skills."


• How to Follow Your Dreams and Pay the Bills: "Whichever path you end up taking, make sure you make an informed decision and understand the short- and long-term financial implications. Choosing a career for its intrinsic reward is fine – as long as you can repay your debt and cover your bills."


• 5 Habits of People Who Always Get Promoted: "A large part of any business is helping people work together well. Super-employees make that a top priority. They look at relationships as something that’s critical to success in the business."


• You Don't Need a Promotion to Grow at Work: "Expanding your influence through actively mentoring others, building internal communities of practice, or stepping up to represent your organization with external bodies can forge satisfying new frontiers without changing roles."


• 10 Steps to Millennial Financial Success: "The biggest monthly expenses that most millennials have are rent and transportation. Making some sacrifices to keep those bills as low as possible can have a huge impact."