High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Protecting Time at Work by Setting Boundaries

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!

• Protect Your Time at Work by Setting Better Boundaries: "As a time management coach, I’ve seen a variety of ways in which people have successfully set boundaries with their colleagues.... here are some examples of boundaries you can set and strategies for communicating them to others."

• How Hiring Has Changed in the Last Decade: "Love it or hate it, Glassdoor has fundamentally changed the job search process by providing a platform for employees, candidates, and companies to share their thoughts and views on a company."

• 50 Best US Cities for Starting a Business in 2020: "In the following dispatches, you'll find a road map for turning forgotten ZIP codes into boomtowns--or simply for answering the age-old question: Where should you go next?."

• 4 Ways You Benefit from Serving Others: "You’ll see more money in your pocket and create a thriving business if you serve others, but what’s the point of wealth if you’re not happy? Good news: Science confirms that serving others makes you feel great."
• 7 Quick Reads to Keep You Motivated:"Whether you’re coming back from a relaxing getaway or just craving some new motivation, you’ll get a little brain food to fuel the next phase of your career."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Start a Business in a Day

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 Start a Business in a Day:"take a little time to determine how many businesses like yours are out there and what services they offer. How can you differentiate yourself from them?"

• 10 Free Online Courses to Learn More About Business: "a number of top universities across the world offer free online classes for you to bolster your skills as a leader and business owner."

• How to Run Meetings You Actually Want to Attend: "The meeting you want to have is the one that leaves you feeling energized, with more clarity and focus than you had going in."

• A Psychologist's Advice for Talking About "Weaknesses" in Interviews: "your ability to pretend that you are thinking on the spot - or, even better, that you have been put on the spot - and have been forced to sincerely report on your biggest weaknesses, is likely to make a better impact on your interviewers."
• The Best Career Advice I've Ever Received: "Listening to their stories and being receptive to their advice continue to guide me and help me reach new milestones. Below are just a few of the best words of advice I’ve ever received."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 10 Powerful Attributes of Insanely Successful People

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!

• 10 Powerful Attributes of Insanely Successful People:"If you want to achieve your wildest dreams and become phenomenally successful, you’ll need to find ways to go from ordinary to extraordinary."

• 3 Exercises to Build Stronger Teams: "start with the premise that we’ll build stronger teams when we first build stronger relationships with the people on them."

• How to Have a Life Even After Getting More Responsibilities at Work: "in these situations, you need sharper focus and stronger filters. These five strategies can help you with both."

• How to Discover the Strength of Your Personal Brand: "When thinking about your online personal brand, you should start with one goal in mind: to build value through your online authority as an expert."
• 5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Leaving Corporate Life & Starting My Own Business: "understand that you’ll most likely have to spend infinitely more money launching and building your business than you ever imagined."

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: Are You Ready to Start a Company?

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!

• Are You Ready to Start a Company? Ask Yourself These 6 Questions: "Yet, even beyond any specific idea or execution strategy, many of the founders I interviewed said they were motivated to solve a particular problem."

• 5 Easy Ways to Reduce Stress and Recharge Daily: "Getting involved in your community also gives you an intrinsic boost that keeps you going when you get bogged down. Put those skills that make you successful in your career to use, and exercise a sense of purpose"

• 3 Tips to Stay Productive Without Risking Burnout: "The best way to maintain steady levels of energy throughout the day is to do at least some form of physical exercise."

• To Control Your Life, Control What You Pay Attention To: "Attention management is the practice of controlling distractions, being present in the moment, finding flow, and maximizing focus, so that you can unleash your genius."
• 13 Things Socially Intelligent Leaders Do Differently: "Social intelligence relies largely on the ability to see other people objectively, and to understand that personal experiences can largely influence biases toward or against someone."

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: How to Start a Business

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 The School of Life discusses how to start a business, and suggests that one factor should not be overlooked: love and a desire to share a product or service that we love a little more intensely than most others with the world. Watch the video for more.

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Tell Your Boss That You're Not Engaged 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!

• How to Tell Your Boss That You're Not Engaged at Work: "He noticed that organizations tended to overlook the influence that everyday experiences have on people’s work motivation, focusing instead on their talents, skills, and expertise."

• 7 Keys to Success for Women Starting Their Own Business: "If you want to take it seriously you need clarity and passion. Without passion, our dreams become a burden, and burdens get abandoned."

• How the People in My Life Help Me Succeed: "It all starts with who you find to share your life with and who you let in. At work, you want people who are driven, competent, honest and who share similar goals to yours."

• 6 Science-Backed Ways to Make Your Office More Productive: "workplaces with 'positive and virtuous practices' such as mutual care, support and kindness -- and workplaces that inspire and emphasize the meaningfulness of work, as well as emphasize respect and gratitude -- enjoyed greater productivity, performance and customer satisfaction."
• Why Being a Morning Person Will Make You Better at Your Job: "When we make the time to collect ourselves in the morning, we have clarity for the rest of the day, because when we bring a more relaxed presence into our morning hours, it makes everything that happens from there much more manageable."

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: How to Start a Business When You Don't Have Time

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 from Business Insider, career expert and Growth Lab CEO Ramit Sethi shares some ideas for building a business when you have little time.

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 8 Tips to Help You Manage Stress

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 Tips to Help You Manage Stress: "You can’t fight it if you don’t know what it is. If a certain situation or person at work pushes your buttons, own that feeling."

• Making the Most of Strategic Relationships: "Great products are rarely invented by solo practitioners. Great companies cannot be produced by a recluse. Our increasingly interdependent world makes relationship-building more critical than ever."

• 5 Interview Lines That Make Job Interviewers Cringe: "You should have questions! Asking questions is how you determine if this job, this manager and this employer are right for you."

• 4 Ways You Know It's Time to Make the Leap and Start Your Own Business: "There is no one who can tell you, ultimately, what’s right for your life and your business but you. Trust your gut."
• How to Be Productive During the Summer: "Work hard, rest well. The hard work will keep you from being distracted by the temptations of summer, while the days off will help you enjoy those temptations."

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: How to Know the Best Time to Start a Business

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 from Inc., entrepreneur Jake Bronstein discusses how to know when it is the best time to take the risk and start a new business. (Hint: It's NOW.)

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: How to Make Money on Twitter

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 by Michelle Held and Entrepreneur, learn what it takes to sell on Twitter, starting with building a social media following, developing website landing pages, and then selling like a pro.

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 5 Ways to Grow a Side Business While Keeping Your Day 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!

• 5 Ways to Grow a Side Business While Keeping Your Day Job: "There’s an app for systematizing almost every aspect of your business. Your goal should be to free up as much time as possible to work on revenue-driving tasks that net the highest return for the limited amount of free time you have."

• 7 Ways to Become a Better Person this Week: "Instead of wasting even a second considering the opinions of future people—people who are not even born yet—focus every bit of yourself on being the best person you can be in the present moment."

• 10 Harsh Lessons That Will Make You More Successful: "When all is said and done, you will lament the chances you didn’t take far more than you will your failures. Don’t be afraid to take risks."

• 4 Steps to Building Your Dream Career: "There’s no point spending time planning out a dream career in an industry or occupation that you are just not passionate about."
• How to Steer Clear of Office Gossip: "My own preferred tactic, which I used successfully over the years, involved a combination of ignoring the conversation and instead going on to inject a business-related subject that had no connection to what was being gossiped about."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Practice Mindfulness Throughout Your Work Day

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 Practice Mindfulness Throughout Your Work Day: "When you get to the office, take 10 minutes at your desk or in your car to boost your brain with a short mindfulness practice before you dive into activity."
• 7 Tips to Build a Business While Working a Day Job: "Read your vision aloud every morning and evening, focusing completely on the end result -- your vibrant, flourishing business."
• 12 Habits of the Most Productive People: "People who are highly productive have established clear goals and a vision for what they want to achieve long term."
• 7 Things Successful People Do on Monday Mornings: "Start with these tips and see that Monday can be your best friend and biggest motivator—if you let it."
• 10 Items to Ban from Your Resume: "Résumé objectives never help and often hurt. Not only do they feel antiquated, but they're all about what you want."

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: 7 Businesses You Can Start Tomorrow

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.

Tired of your job or your boss and want to strike out on your own? Check out the Forbes video below and learn about 7 businesses you can start right away.

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Using Pinterest in Your Job Search

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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• Why You Need To Use Pinterest in Your Job Search: "Pinterest may not be the first thing that comes to mind when searching for jobs, but this infographic shows how it could it help."


• Surprise! You Shouldn’t Answer the Phone When Recruiters Call: "This has to sound like the stupidest idea you have ever heard. But you don’t want to get caught off-guard in phone interviews."


• What Type of Job Hunter Are You?: "Here are three basic thoughts to take to heart and learn about the job search."


• Why You Should Keep Your Personal Life Out of the Office: "Although work/life boundaries are more blurred than ever, spending too much work time on personal tasks will lead you to be much less productive."


• How to Start a Business When You Work Full Time: "If you haven’t already realized that there’s no true job security, now is a good time to start thinking about how you could bring in additional streams of revenue."

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."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Is it Time to Quit Your 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 these every weekend so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

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• Should You Quit Your Day Job?: "Playing it safe and not taking chances to stretch yourself, means that in 2-3 years you’ll be exactly the same person as you are today. This sends a signal to recruiters and hiring managers that you have plateaued."

• 9 Ways to Win Over Your Boss: "If something isn’t at the top of your list but your boss expresses that it’s a priority – then it immediately becomes your priority, too."                                                      
• The Most Important 15 Minutes of My Day: "I’m a huge fan of highly regimented creativity – a notion that seems paradoxical, I know. But it works."


• How to Build an Ironclad Network: "Your request for a conversation must be sincere and free of hidden agendas. You will not ask for a job, you won't even mention the word job during your conversation."


• 5 Tricks to Starting a Business While Working Full Time: "If you haven't already realized that there's no true job security, now is a good time to start thinking about how you could bring in additional streams of revenue."