High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Idea Entrepreneurs and Words to Transform Your 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 these every weekend so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

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• 3 Words That Will Transform Your Career: "Every time you encounter another person, think: help this person. It's not altruistic. Nothing else can so quickly supercharge your career and improve the quality of your life."

• 6 Steps to Networking Nirvana: "Effective networking requires focused one-to-one communication, rather than blasting out cries for help to all within email reach. It is about building relationships, not exploiting them."                                                        
• Idea Entrepreneur--The New 21st Century Career: "It is all too common that people with an idea for an improvement or a change to the world are satisfied to point out a problem, propose a solution, and then expect others to execute. The idea entrepreneur, however, sees the expression of the idea as the beginning of the effort — and it can be a lifelong one — in which they will continue to build the idea, reach new audiences, and offer practices that lead to change."


• The Key to Success After Graduation: "Learning early in life to persist in an effort ridiculed by others is of great value. Whether a blessing or a curse, most of what I have accomplished in my career was initially deemed doomed to fail."


• 4 Tips for an Effective Cover Letter: "Your cover letter has one purpose—and one purpose only: To get the hiring manager’s attention so he reads your resume!"