High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 15 New Ideas for Your LinkedIn Profile

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!

• 15 New Ideas for Your LinkedIn Profile: "On LinkedIn, you’ve got more room to maneuver and more space for adding keywords. You can provide more information than you can on your CV. Amplify the things that matter most."

• Do You Have Determination?: "Perhaps you’ve resigned yourself to things being one way. But you shouldn’t give up hope. Enlist a partner who may have a different perspective and energy to get back on track."

• 3 Tips for Re-Engineering Your Office: "An elegantly elevated desk best enhances an employee’s output when it’s surrounded by the right stuff. If that stuff is other desks, consider their arrangement."

• How to Make Gratitude a Way of Life: "There are many ways to cultivate a disposition of thankfulness. One is to make a habit of giving thanks regularly—at the beginning of the day, at meals and the like, and at day’s end."
• 5 Inspiring Books to Give Businesswomen This Holiday:"Among my favorite gifts to give (or receive) are books. And below is a list of inspiring books, many of which I have given or plan to give to the women whose support I can't imaging doing business (or life) without."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 6 Tools to Build Resilience, Happiness & 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!

• 6 Tools to Build Resilience, Happiness, and Success: "Start by writing down what is most important to you. Then track how much of your time each day you are actually devoting to these priorities. If the answer is little or none, that’s a clear indication you need to carve out time in your day, week and month to focus on them."

• Check Out the World's Coolest Offices: "Modern furniture and minimal lines make for an elegant interior while floating lights in the shape of clouds add softness. A variety of meeting rooms provide separate areas for teams to get together."

• The Benefits of Bringing Your Whole Identity to Work: "When we began examining how professionals of color have succeeded in fields where they’re underrepresented, we expected many of them to tell us that they’d used some version of this strategy to get ahead. But that’s not what we heard in our interviews."

• 8 Fears Entrepreneurs Face When Starting a New Business: "Every new entrepreneur has one or more moments when they start thinking twice about what they're doing, or whether they're even up for the challenges they've taken on."
• 10 Strategies to Become a Thought Leader:"Getting out of your comfort zone may lead to more challenges and mistakes than you'd like, but they will force you to be in a situation where you evolve or perish."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Manage Workaholism

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 Manage Workaholism:"Whatever the definition, the results of an unhealthy work obsession has some pretty serious long-term consequences."

• How Taking Risks Can Lead to the Biggest Successes of Your Career: "in order to get the best out of yourself, you have to put yourself into positions where you're uncomfortable or vulnerable."

• 7 Income Streams that Generate Passive Income: "If you want to build wealth or achieve your long-term financial goals, you have to diversify your income sources with multiple streams of income."

• 5 Mistakes to Remove from Your LinkedIn Profile: "It's no secret that if you want to get a job, hire great talent or network with the best, then LinkedIn is a solid place to start.."
• Office Design Tips That Will Increase Employee Productivity: "Sometimes the secret to getting work done—and motivating your employees to do the same—is in our environment.... Warm temperature, a certain level of ambient noise and natural lighting seem to increase productivity."

5 Design Elements of a Productive Workspace

Have you ever wandered over to a co-worker’s desk and wondered how they could possibly get anything done? Papers are stacked everywhere, there’s a banana peel on the corner of the desk that looks like it’s been there for days, and their office chair squeaks annoyingly.

Of course, the company likely provides the work space but that doesn’t mean we can’t make adjustments in order to be more effective and productive in our job.

Consider how you can improve the following elements in your workspace to improve your work experience.

Privacy. Though you might be in a small cubicle surrounded by co-workers there are still some steps you can take to afford you more privacy. Add sound-absorbing materials like foam or a fabric to your cubicle walls or add some book shelves to decrease sound. You might also use noise cancelling headphones while working or play some soft music.

   

Organized. It’s difficult to be productive when you can’t find what you’re looking for. Keep your desk in order and develop an effective filing system for your print (and electronic) documents.

Light. Office spaces often have insufficient lighting which can cause eye strain and headaches. Look into adding some personal lighting by adding a desk lamp or attachable light to your computer. If you have windows, open them up.

View. Speaking of windows, a view of nature and the outdoors has been shown to support health and increase productivity, so sit near the windows, draw the blinds, and enjoy the view. If you don’t have a beautiful view bring in photos of some of your favorite nature shots and add a plant or two to your desk. The plant will also aid in air quality, keeping you healthier.

Comfortable seating. If you’re not comfortable in your space it will be difficult to get focused and accomplish the work required of you. Be sure to have a chair that works for you, while also ensuring that your desk is at an appropriate height. If you move to a new work area makes the changes necessary to be comfortable. Developing leg or back pain is a sure way to decrease productivity and enjoyment of your work.

Take advantage of the areas you control to ensure that you design a work space that allows you to work comfortably, productively, and enthusiastically.

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Answer "What Did Your Last Job Pay?"

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 Answer "What Did Your Last Job Pay?": "You don't have to give up your past or current salary information to anyone during your job search, but in order to keep those details to yourself you'll need to be prepared."

• 3 Necessary Follow-Ups to Get the Job: "Here are some key things you need to do to keep your job search up to date and moving forward."

• 25 Best Habits to Have in Life: "The early morning hours are a time for peaceful reflection and ample productivity, where the world is still and asleep, allowing you to focus wholeheartedly on your long-term goals."

• The Stage in the Hiring Process When Job Seekers Have the Most Leverage: "Regardless, there’s generally a sense of urgency somewhere in the organization for the position to be filled. Someone is in pain because you’re not there yet."
• 10 Reasons Why Every Office Needs Plants and Flowers: "Although it is not the first thing that most people think of when looking for ways to improve efficiency and the quality of their work, plants can actually help to improve productivity levels."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 22 Qualities That Make a Great Leader

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!

• 22 Qualities That Make a Great Leader: "If you focus on becoming authentic in all your interactions, that will rub off on your business and your culture, and the rest takes care of itself."
• The Office of the Future Will Be Natural, Chair-less, and Designed for Collaboration: "The trend will be to prevent workers from sitting all the time, in favor of walking, standing, or doing literally anything else besides sitting to maintain blood flow."
• 9 Fundamentals of Leadership Success: "Successful leaders must constantly communicate the core values which underlie their organization’s vision. In turn, the leader’s vision and actions must also be congruent with these values."
• 4 Simple Ways to Be More Creative at Work: "A rested brain, and one that is not so tightly wound around or attached to the task at hand, is more likely to think of a new idea or the solution to your idea than an overworked one. Don't force the creative process."
• 5 Ways to Be Influential: "You can influence more if you collaborate openly and willingly, with complete, honest and full disclosure."