High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Why a Safe Life is a Mediocre 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!

• Why a Safe Life is a Mediocre Life: "There’s a lot of risk and mystery in taking the first step. The inherent risk in taking a first step is found in embracing when you’ll fall, not if you’ll fall."

• 8 Daily Rituals That Keep You Laser Focused: "By taking short breaks, ideally about once an hour, you give your mind a chance to decompress and relax so it can refocus and concentrate again."

• 5 Skills to Put on Your Resume to Boost Your Appeal: "whatever the job they were trying to fill, communication skills and customer service skills were among the most sought after."

• How to Use Vlogging to Give Your Personal Brand an Edge: "Vlogging is growing at an outstanding rate for a good reason. People are invested in their favorite brands and the personalities behind them."
• 3 Things to Consider About Your Income and Retirement:"These are three key components to help ensure that we don’t run out of money. Make sure they are all taken into consideration when developing a plan."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 10 Powerful Attributes of Insanely Successful 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 Powerful Attributes of Insanely Successful People:"If you want to achieve your wildest dreams and become phenomenally successful, you’ll need to find ways to go from ordinary to extraordinary."

• 3 Exercises to Build Stronger Teams: "start with the premise that we’ll build stronger teams when we first build stronger relationships with the people on them."

• How to Have a Life Even After Getting More Responsibilities at Work: "in these situations, you need sharper focus and stronger filters. These five strategies can help you with both."

• How to Discover the Strength of Your Personal Brand: "When thinking about your online personal brand, you should start with one goal in mind: to build value through your online authority as an expert."
• 5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Leaving Corporate Life & Starting My Own Business: "understand that you’ll most likely have to spend infinitely more money launching and building your business than you ever imagined."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Nine Strategies to Find Your Next Role

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!

• 9 Strategies to Find Your Next Role: "Hunting and applying for jobs online is frequently frustrating and fruitless. The best way to search for jobs online is to become "the hunted" by developing a strong online personal brand."

• 11 Ways to Stay Productive When You're Tired: "consider switching up your environment at work to keep you energized and inspired. Try doing a couple of hours with your laptop in a nearby café or library, or at least moving closer to a window where the fresh air and daylight can improve your performance."

• 4 Little-Known Secrets to Better Networking: "One of the most fascinating things about the business world is that valuable connections can form just about anywhere. It’s only a matter of getting out there."

• What Sets Successful CEOs Apart?: "High-performing CEOs understand that a wrong decision is often better than no decision at all."
• 10 Habits of the Most Confident People: "The only person you need to compare yourself with is the version of yourself that you want to become. That's it."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 15 Things You Can Do to Be Happier 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 Things You Can Do to Be Happier at Work: "Many will just put up with the situation until they decide it’s time to quit. But proactive careerists can use proven methods to improve their situation and grow into their role, ultimately becoming happier at work."

• 3 Ways to Make Time for the Little Tasks You Never Make Time For: "One possibility is to batch your less important tasks and accomplish them in one fell swoop, creating a sense of momentum."

• What you Need to Know to Nail a Last Minute Interview: "Knowledge of these types of items can be good conversation starters, particularly when you don’t know as much about the organization as you would if you had more prep time."

• 5 Brain Hacks to Boost Your Motivation: "Focusing on the bigger goal gives you the feeling of working on something greater and being part of something bigger than yourself. It gives deeper meaning to the objective you seek."
• Brand Yourself for Career Stability: "Your unique way of getting things done makes a difference in the world. Capture this feedback and use it to market yourself."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 5 Things You Need for a Successful Mindset

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 Things You Need for a Successful Mindset: "Less common and far more difficult is the sustained focus and drive—throughout long periods of time—needed to achieve it."

• 8 Tips for Building Your Personal Brand in 2017: "You know your personal brand is strong when you become a source of information. Strive to be the person media outlets and journalists contact when they need expert advice or information."

• The #1 New Year's Resolution to Kick-Start Your Career: "If you’re not sure where or how to invest in yourself, then ask yourself these three questions."

• Unveiling the Best Jobs of 2017: "Job seekers and employees, cheer up. The 2017 job market is looking solid, especially for workers in key industries such as health care and business."
• 5 Real Reasons You're Getting Radio Silence After a Final Interview: "As an HR 'insider,' I’d like to peel back the curtain for a moment and let you in on exactly what’s going on behind-the-scenes."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 10 Tips to Do More and Be 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 them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

• 10 Tips to Push Yourself to Do More and Be More: "Start saying your goals out loud. This way, you'll be more likely to manifest your dreams. Begin this habit today."
• 5 Ways to Be a Great Mentor: "That unwavering commitment to excellence provided a clear roadmap for the kind of teacher and manager I wanted to be."
• How to Showcase Your Personal Brand in an Interview: "A personal brand is your distinct talents and what you represent. As it turns out, a strong, appealing personal brand can help job seekers in the interview process."
• The 25 Best Free iPhone Apps for Business: "Incredibly useful apps that can help you run your business a whole lot smarter than ever before."
• 10 Behaviors of Genuinely Successful People: "Their careers, their accomplishments, the success of their companies speak for themselves. You’ll never hear them breath a word about how much money they have or make. They tend to be fairly modest."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Build Your Brand Through Public Speaking

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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• 3 Steps to Communicate With Confidence: "Communicating is not easy, until you are in tune with your authentic self and possess the self-awareness to position your message in a way that adds value."


• 3 Steps to Build Your Brand Through Public Speaking: "Public speaking really isn’t about you. It’s about serving your audience by giving them something of value – inspiration, information, knowledge, and validation."


• How to Handle Negative Feedback: "First, there’s no question that not interrupting and listening carefully is the right thing to do when you’re getting negative feedback."


• 6 Motivating Quotes to Help You Persevere: "Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."


• 7 Daily Habits for More Success at Work: "We instill a culture that people should work on tasks that use their core strengths ... We don't believe in wasting people's time getting them to improve their weaknesses."

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: Tony Hawk on Using Twitter

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 the video below, skateboard legend Tony Hawk talks about authenticity on social media and how he uses twitter.

3 Steps to Build Your Personal Brand

You have the ability to be your own best marketer and promoter by building your personal brand. Your personal brand is what sets you apart: your skills, talents, and values.

It is your unique set of skills, abilities, knowledge, and values that distinguishes you from others and makes clear to potential employers or partners what value you could bring to a position or role within a company.

Here are 3 steps to begin building your personal brand:

1. Get on social media and build a consistent message. If you're not on twitter or Instagram consider opening an account. Create or share content of value to others in your fields of interest. Be sure to share appropriate and professional content on facebook and linkedIn.

2. Start a blog. You can become known and knowledgeable in your field by writing interesting posts about areas of importance to others with similar interests. For help in starting a blog check out this post over at the Minimalists site.

3. Attend conferences and participate in panel discussions. Not only will you meet some great people at conferences and develop important business contacts and make new friends, but by participating in panel discussions you begin to brand yourself as an expert in your field.

How are you building your brand?

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Personal Branding, Social Media, and Innovative Leaders

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 Personal Branding Tips: "They should treat themselves like a brand regardless – day job, home, personal life. They have to put their personal brand in two to five words, and they have to be very honest in what they stand for."


• Tips for Using Social Media to Get a Job: "There are lots of local groups sharing job opportunities on Facebook if you search by job type and location."


• 10 Traits of Innovative Leaders: "These leaders believed that the best and most innovative ideas bubbled up from underneath. They strived to create a culture that uncorked good ideas from the first level of the organization."


• Top 10 Skills to be Successful: "You don’t need to know how to build the next Facebook, but a basic understanding of how the Web works and how software and apps are built can be a game-changing advantage."


• How to Future Proof Your Career: "Future-proofed skills can either be essentials (e.g., health, security, utilities, etc.) or play an important part in facilitating a drastic change in the economy, like technology."

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: Steps to Creating Your Personal Brand

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.

Today we focus on the importance of creating your personal brand, with five tips from career expert Amanda Rose. 

Are you working on your personal brand?

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Traits of a Great Job Seeker

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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• Traits of a Great Job Seeker: "Here are seven job seeker traits to consider as you embark upon your job search. These traits have worked for others; hopefully, they will work for you."


• How to Stalk Your Future Employer (Without Being Creepy): "It might surprise you to learn that, yes, sometimes digging too deep and oversharing what you’ve learned about a potential employer or hiring manager can actually hurt you during the interview process."


• 3 Tips to Succeed in the Economy of You: "No matter where you are with your side-gig--the key to gaining greater professional control and financial security in this modern-day economy--here are the top 3 things you should be doing to ensure success."


• How to Manage Your Personal Brand When You're in Transition: "When you're changing chapters professionally, what's the best way to manage your personal brand? Should you even think about personal branding? Where do you start? Here are some helpful tips."


• How to Create an Irresistible Resume: "The words you choose to communicate your experience make all the difference in whether your resume is considered average or fantastic."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Habits for Success and Eliminating Soul-Crushing Habits

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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• What to Do If You Lose Your Job: "No matter how tough the economy, there are ways to stand out among the competition and start the next chapter of your life."

• The One Thing Successful People Do Every Day: "Well, here’s the one personal branding habit you can’t be too busy for."                                                      
• 6 Soul-Crushing Career Habits You Should Break Right Now: "Never underestimate the importance of what you have to contribute."


• Taking Care of Yourself, Then Business: "Make time for exercise just as you would for the most critical part of your work. You won’t be as effective, at least not for long, unless you take care of yourself first."


• Three Things that Actually Motivate Employees: "Clarity about how your products or services can improve the world provides guideposts for employees’ priorities and decisions. As part of the daily conversation, mission and purpose can make even mundane tasks a means to a larger end."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Career Success and Working at Home

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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• Staying the Course When You Truly Hate Your Job: "The key is getting back to what engages you and making it a part of your daily work life – a little creativity can go a long way."

• How I Went from Zero to Success in Four Weeks: "Defining a brand and nailing your message may seem relatively easy, but your business’s first, powerful impression is the most important thing for any company. Get it right the first time and you’ll be well on your way."                                                      
• Do You Have What it Takes to Work from Home?: "A home office is filled with distractions, from dishes in the sink to the ability to walk away from your desk on a sunny day with no boss to tell you to keep working. Can you resist the temptation to take your eye off the ball?"


• The 8 Rules of Success to Think about Every Morning: "When it comes to doing business, building a brand and a good reputation is vital. Once you have done this, you will find things a lot easier, as most of us prefer to deal with people or companies that are recognised and trusted."


• The 3 Questions People Always Forget to Ask in an Interview: "The people who are interviewing you will have heard it all before and they will be looking for someone who has that little bit extra quality or personality which sets them apart from the rest of the crowd." 

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: 4 Principles of Career Distinction

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 writer William Arruda presents four principles of career distinction and discusses the importance of managing your own career.

Learn more in the video below:

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Success and Leadership

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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• The 7 Ways Successful People Approach Their Work: "[I]mprove your skills and adopt new ones important in your line of work. Take professional development classes, or have a mentor help you figure out what you’ll need to learn in order to succeed five, ten or 20 years from now."

• Do All job Seekers Need a Personal Website?: "According to a study ... 56 percent of hiring managers are more impressed by a personal website than any other branding tool you could use. And yet, only 7 percent of job seekers have websites."
• Act Like a Leader Before You Are One: "No matter how big your ambitions, don't let them distract you from excelling in your current role. Focus on the present as much as — or more than — the future."


• 10 Ways to Be Sensationally Successful at Your New Job: " Work hard to be known for something specific. Be known for responding more quickly or following up first or always offering to help before you’re asked. Be the leader known for turning around struggling employees or creating the biggest pool of promotable talent or building bridges between different departments."


• 30 Books to Make You a Better Business Leader: "While it may seem hard to believe, the simple act of reading can provide you with an opportunity to expand your leadership and business knowledge. The end result: a positive transform for you and the business you lead." 

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Job Search, Personal Branding, and Interviewing

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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• How to Turbo Boost Your Burnt-Out Job Search: "When you identify a company you would like to work for, network with as many inside connections as possible. Even if you have a solid contact, having more than one certainly can't hurt."

• How to Showcase Your Personal Brand in a Job Interview: "Perhaps the biggest benefit to personal branding as a job seeker is self-awareness of your unique skills and talents, and recognition of what you’re passionate about and what differentiates you from others."


• Millennials Are Redefining Work, Corporations Should Take Advantage: "We’re a generation with a new work ethic and tremendous potential, given the resources and scope of a large corporation. That young people all over the world are creating brands and technologies that challenge and overshadow decades old institutions — this startup revolution — is evidence enough of the great power of Millennial thinking."


• Claim Your Freedom at Work: "
  If you were free to approach your work differently, what would you change in order to boost your satisfaction and effectiveness?

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• Networking Success Even for the Most Shy: "So again, tag team, but also go prepared to be a connector. Show up at a networking event with some specific leads that you can share with other people. It’s a concrete thing, to go in with that spirit of generosity."