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: The First Thing to Do in 2018 to Build a Happier Life

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!

• The First Thing to Do in 2018 to Build a Happier Life: "finally address any remaining fears, blocks or excuses that have been in the way of your changing or leaving a situation that's wrong for you."

• 5 Unexpected Career Resolutions You Should Make in 2018: "if you have more than about three big goals in the mix, you’re likely to dilute your effort and accomplish very little."

• How to Highlight Your Talents in a Job Interview: "you can help others speculate about your own future—and place a bet on your talents—by describing the key qualities of your potential."

• 30 Habits, Qualities, and Secrets That Lead to Success: "Developing the right habits is also important, and these can be as simple as keeping a journal to jot down your thoughts and ideas, visualizing success and having a solid morning routine."
• 3 Signs You Need Change in Your Life: "Once you figure out that the game you’re playing isn’t money or success, but rather how you feel, the sooner you’ll prioritize a deep sense of fulfillment over fear."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Improve Your Life in 8 Steps

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 Improve Your Life in 8 Steps: "A vision forces you to be specific about what you’re going after, and once you have it, it becomes part of your identity and propels you into action each day."

• 9 Keys to a Happy Career Making Millions: "consider starting or joining a company that is socially conscious. Find one that gives back to the community. Alternatively, you can start volunteering."

• 9 Signs an Employee is Exceptionally Productive: "Effort without a genuine purpose is just effort. Effective people don't just know what to do--they know why. They have a long-term goal. They have short-term goals that support their long-term goals."

• Stop Letting Email Control Your Work Day: "In an era of fast-paced offices, instant gratification, and constant access, one of the most important things we can do personally and professionally is take a step back."
• 7 Places in the US So Cheap You Can Afford to Quit Your Job and Be an Entrepreneur: "there's a high-quality of living, good weather and fast internet....These are places where the cost of living is so cheap you can afford to quit your day job and become an entrepreneur."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 15 Ways to Get the Confidence Boost You Need 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!

• 15 Ways to Get the Confidence Boost You Need at Work: "Confidence can build heavily on memory – if you lack confidence in a new opportunity or a new environment, remember what got you there in the first place."

• 27 Things Truly Exceptional Bosses Do Every Day: "Good leaders can gather lots of followers, but truly great leaders demonstrate their eagerness to help other people become even better leaders."

• 8 Ways to Create Momentum: "Not all good habits are created equal. Some are more powerful than others. See the ones that will strengthen your confidence, help you get what you want and result in a satisfying journey."

• The More Essential Your Job is to Your Company, the Happier You'll Be: "Occupying a lynchpin position may offer greater opportunities to experience meaningful work, commitment to the organization, and less job insecurity and burnout."
• 10 Reasons You're Still Not Happy: "A great deal of unhappiness stems from comparing your life to others, which can quickly make you feel inferior. When you feel inferior, it can be hard to feel grateful."

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. That’s where you will thrive."
• 4 Things Older Job Seekers are Doing Wrong: "Rather than accept a position where you will resent the pay or walk away from an offer that is not up to snuff, consider ways to negotiate. See if you can bump up your benefits."
• How to Bring More Meaning to Your Life and Career: "As you make small changes, you begin to gain competence in living according to your values."
• 7 Steps to Master the Art of Persuasion: "The art of getting others to see things as you see them -- usually called persuasion -- is a key one for entrepreneurs, and it needs to be honed from the first day that you formulate your new idea."
• 5 Tips for a Successful Online Job Search: "People often don't realize how great the odds are stacked against job seekers for virtually every online advertisement."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: The Secret to Career Happiness

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 All Managers Must be Leaders: "Management and leadership need to be taught in schools as interconnected disciplines that cannot exist without the other. Leaders within organizations should be mentored so that they know how to properly manage."


• What is the Secret of Career Happiness?: "If you know you're playing to your strengths, in an environment you can thrive and feel your work is rewarding, that really is happiness at work."


• 7 Social Media Tips to Boost Your Job Search: "As more companies turn to researching their candidates online, it’s more important for job seekers to understand their online presence as well as how to improve it."


• The Pros and Cons of Doing One Thing at a Time: "When you juggle, your tasks interact with each other, and that can be a good thing. As they compete for your attention, their specific problems come into sharp relief, and new solutions present themselves."


• Improving Communication Skills for Job Seekers: "Employers use email to ask for more information, request interviews and provide status updates. This vital business communication vehicle is another chance to highlight your strengths in written communication."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Choose the Right Career Track

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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• Choosing the Right Career Track: "The first step is to collect job postings that appeal to you, sorting them by whether you're drawn to the organization ... or if you're drawn to the job description."


• 10 Things Successful People Never Do: "If you’re worried about who did what and getting the credit you deserve, you’re probably not as successful as you could be."


• Can You Be Friends with Your Boss?: "Having a positive, constructive, and trusting relationship with your boss is always a good thing."


• Nervous About That Job Interview?: "Take your time, listen properly to the question being asked, and don't be afraid to pause for a few seconds before you answer while you think of the right approach."


• 5 Things You Must Know if You Want to Live a Happy Life: "You can’t be happy if you are judging the circumstances in your life constantly instead of accepting them."

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: How to Succeed? Get More Sleep

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.

In this video, Arianna Huffington , co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of thirteen books, shares a small idea that can awaken much bigger ones: the power of a good night's sleep. As she explains, adequate sleep leads to increased productivity, happiness, and smarter decision-making.

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Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: Success and Happiness

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.

In this video author and researcher Shawn Achor states that our understanding of the relationship between happiness and success is wrong. Happiness fuels success rather than success fueling happiness.

View the video here.

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Career Happiness, Music for Work, and More

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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• 10 Ways to Skyrocket Your Career Happiness: "Cultivate relationships with co-workers you like and minimize time with those you don't. Finding a mentor or mentee can help you boost your network, energize your work, and bring more joy to your job."


• 5 of the Toughest Career Lessons You'll Ever Learn: "Instead, assume that you're your own best advocate, and that you'll need to speak up—whether it's asking for more money or tracking your accomplishments throughout the year to raise when your performance review comes around."


• 10 TED Talks to Help You Reimagine Your Business: "Here are 10 amazing TED Talks that have helped me think differently about what business can be, how to be a better leader, and how to become a better global citizen."


• 5 Ways to Ace Your Start-up Informational Interview: "Regardless of who you’re interviewing with—a founder, engineer, recruiter, or customer service rep—you can assume that they’re underpaid and overworked, but incredibly excited by what they do. And that they want to see that same sort of enthusiasm from future employees."


• 21 Songs to Inspire You at Work: "We all love to be inspired at work, and we all love great music. So I asked people I respect what songs inspire them most at the office."