High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Helping Others is Your Most Valuable Offering

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!

• Helping Others is Your Most Valuable Offering: "Helping others makes us happier and consequently boosts productivity. From there we can thrive and improve our bottom line while growing our businesses."
• This is the Key to a Successful Partnership (and a Successful Life): "You can’t enter a partnership and then rely on your partner to figure out for you who you are. In effect, you have to form a strong 'partnership' with yourself before someone else can. As we like to say, 'we' always starts with 'me'.
• Your Internship Just Turned Into a Job Offer--Should You Take It?: "For better or worse, interns often have vastly different experiences than employees who work year-round. Before committing, it’s essential to research the job and company."
• The Changing Shape of the Modern Workplace: "The way our workplaces look and behave has been undergoing a great deal of flux and experimentation in recent years, urged on by a wide range of driving forces."
• How to Determine What Your Potential Boss is Like in an Interview: "You don't want to find out after you start working that your manager is extremely difficult to work for. Asking this question of the people who work for your prospective boss may yield different answers than what human resources or a recruiter tells you."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Ask for a Raise

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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• 5 Lessons to Make a Partnership Work: "Having a sense of shared community made us feel less lonely and uncertain about our choices."


• How to Cultivate Your Professional Relationships: "Make 'reconnect' files on your calendar that recur on a monthly basis. These remind you to reach out in a way as small as a call or email to say hello, see how they’re doing, send a pertinent article or ask how you can help them."


• Things You Must Never Reveal About Yourself at Work: "The last thing anyone wants to hear at work is someone complaining about how much they hate their job. Doing so labels you as a negative person, who is not a team player."


• How to Ask for a Raise: "First, and most important, are facts about your own unique contributions that bolster your case: money-saving efficiencies you implemented, results from a project you’ve just overseen, positive customer testimonials, or praise from higher ups."


• 11 Tips for Job Seekers on Twitter: "You can and should include a link to a personal website, social landing page or LinkedIn profile. Think about where you want people to learn more about you, and use the right link to send them there."