High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 6 Essential Habits for Getting the Career You Want

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 Essential Habits for Getting the Career You Want: "When you are externally focused on the impact you want to have, the game changes. You become intent on results more than personal applause."
• Getting the Most Out of LinkedIn During Your Job Search: "A strategic approach to building your network will help you get much more out of this professional social media site during your job search, potentially opening the doors to your next opportunity and beyond."
• 5 Ways to Experience Flow and Get Crazy Productive: "We thrive on a healthy challenge—something that stimulates us without being so difficult that it produces anxiety or so simple that it induces boredom."
• 4 Simple Steps to Getting Twice as Much Done in Half the Time: "Therefore, the first and most important step in getting more accomplished is to focus on the few tasks that move the needle."
• The Paradox of Workplace Productivity: "It’s time to start shifting to an organizational mindset and set of tools that can provide full visibility into what work is actually getting done in aggregate, and where it does (or doesn’t) create value."