High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 5 Career Tips Every New Graduate Should Know But May Never Be Told

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 Career Tips Every New Graduate Should Know But May Never Be Told: "I think advocates are more valuable than mentors. With respect to your career, advocates have skin in the game. They will go out of their way to help you advance."

• 6 Tips to Rule the Art of Conversation: "With a little practice and more confidence, you should have no problem starting a conversation with anybody, anywhere."

• Improve Your Productivity With Inbox Zero: "The goal is to condition yourself to stop worrying about emails all day long. You should be controlling your inbox, not the other way around."

• When You're Leaving Your Job Because of Your Kids: "Here are seven tactics any working parent should use when transitioning out of a job."
• Steps to Take Right Now to Avoid Answering Work Emails Tonight: "take a minute to review your team’s email policy. If it doesn’t require you to set up your work account on your phone, be bold and remove it yourself."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 10 Verbal Skills of the Most Likable 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 Verbal Skills of the Most Likable People: "There isn't a more universal, effective mantra for building real relationships and powerful networks than treating others as you'd like to be treated."

• 5 Career Tips from High-Flying Women: "Remember that perseverance is vital when it comes to success. Don’t be afraid to fail while trying to reach your goal."

• 9 Tips to Start Living: "
  Everything can become so intense and distorted when you're in the middle of it. Sometimes you need to step away and give yourself room to breathe, to think, to get a fresh perspective."

• 10 Powerful Ways to Stand Up For Yourself in Any Situation: "Your beliefs, emotions, thoughts and ideas belong to you, and no one else can tell you what you feel or invalidate your opinions."
• 4 Ways to Reinvent Yourself After Hitting Rock Bottom: "if you don’t let yourself be real and vulnerable when you’re struggling, you will actually hold yourself back from progressing through the tough time."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 4 Essential Career Tips for Millennials

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!

• 4 Essential Career Tips for Millennials: "Traveling, especially to third world and developing countries will expose you to new cultures, new ways of living, and teach you more about yourself. Travel expands your personality, and gives you time to find a career path you’ll truly enjoy, more so than if you immediately took a job out of college."
• LinkedIns Top 3 Secrets to Getting Hired: "We’ve learned it’s not necessarily your best friend who’s going to help you land that next job. It's more likely to be your best friend’s former coworker, or even that coworker’s neighbor."
• 9 Bad Habits You Must Break to Be More Productive: "It takes you 15 consecutive minutes of focus before you can fully engage in a task. Once you do, you fall into a euphoric state of increased productivity called flow. Research shows that people in a flow state are five times more productive than they otherwise would be."
• 7 Things You Can Do to Build an Awesome Business Brand: "Brands that embody a deeper sense of purpose have a significant advantage over those that don’t — they have something to say and stand for, not just something to sell."
• 7 Ways to Persist When You Want to Give Up: "It can be easy to focus all your energy on reaching your ultimate goal. But if the only thing you can see is your end destination, you’ll miss the beauty of the journey along the way. The new experiences and welcome surprises provide much-needed fuel to keep going."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup

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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