High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 6 Nonverbal Signs That Guarantee You Made a Great First Impression

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 Nonverbal Signs That Guarantee You Made a Great First Impression: "We all like people who like us. If you show me you're genuinely happy to meet me, I'll instantly start to like you.
  And I will smile, make eye contact, laugh, and extend the conversation, all of which will help you relax and be yourself."

• 4 Reasons Why You Should Start a Business When You're Young: "Failing fast and failing often is important, but failing early is key. After your first big failure, the next few will be easy."

• Why Curiosity is the Greatest Leadership Trait of All: "While other people seem to think that once they have found a solution, they can stop looking for new ideas, great leaders tirelessly go on pursuing the new and the better."

• Investing in Yourself--Hobbies That Can Help You Get Ahead: "I’ve had the opportunity to sell some cutting boards and have had a few pieces commissioned. The hope is to use the sales to fund more projects and tools."
• 5 Ways to Refresh Your Mid-Career LinkedIn Profile: "Optimizing your LinkedIn profile means taking a hard look at your online presence as a whole. Are you giving the impression you think you are? Do you come across as competent?"

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career

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!

• Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career: "Paying attention to what engages and excites you, what lights you up, and what stimulates your intellect points you toward the tasks and situations that enable you to be your best self."
• 4 Reasons Why the Most Successful People are Great Collaborators: "It doesn't matter what we do, where we do it, or how well we can create a product or offer a service. In order to succeed, we need to effectively create partnerships with many others around us."
• The Simple Truth to Accomplishing Significantly More, Faster: "Most tasks in life are significantly easier than we'd like to believe. In fact, nearly every goal you have is really just made up a series of small decisions followed by short actions."
• 10 Tips for Raising Your Public Speaking Game: "I believe that it’s the duty of every public speaker to find something right with the world, your view of it, or at least some hero along the way who has exemplified the positive attributes you’re standing behind."
• 5 Tips to Improve Nonverbal Communication in Meetings: "Effective nonverbal communication goes further than that first handshake. Here are five ways to improve nonverbal communication, especially during meetings or presentations."