High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Ruin Your Chance of Succeeding in Your Interview

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!

• 22 Ways to Ruin Your Chance of Succeeding in Your Interview: "While it may sound like I am exaggerating with these gaffes to humor you and make a point, you would be surprised to know that these are all real-life instances that I’ve encountered as an executive recruiter and hiring manager ."

• 7 Ways to Get from Burnout to Balance: "Balance looks different for everyone. Balance isn’t even the same for one person over time. Right now, balance might mean putting 90 percent of your energy into your career. Ten years from now, that number might be 50 percent. It all depends upon what you value at any given time, what you want to achieve, and when you want to achieve it."

• Working Parents and Calendar Apps: "The best way to get a handle on this is to transform your calendar into your timekeeper. A calendar tool can be helpful, because it doesn’t just help you remember meetings or deadlines; it spotlights how you spend your time."

• Dealing with the Death of a Coworker: "Those emotions can be wildly varied and aren’t often ones someone wants to have in a work environment. Anger, guilt, and tears can bubble to the surface."
• One Simple Trick to Be Happier:"if you want to be happier, think of it like ordering tapas—go for small, satisfying bites rather than hinging everything on one main course."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Career Advice Business Leaders Wold Give Their Younger Selves

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!

• Career Advice Business Leaders Would Give to Their Younger Selves: "Here’s what they told me about picking the right career path, finding the right mentor and getting in the right mindset to land the career of your dreams."

• What You Need to Know to Become a Great Leader: "If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a manager, as a parent."

• How to Pursue Your Dream When Everyone Says it Won't Work: "Other people’s concerns about your potential for success or failure often have more to do with their realities than your own."

• Give Working Parents What They Really Want: "Companies that prioritize family-first benefits that support family responsibilities while emphasizing self-care and healthy living will see greater return on loyalty, morale, productivity and performance from all employees."
• 3 Types of Questions That Are Crucial for Employee Coaching:"Great managers use questions to lead employees to mutually agreed-upon solutions -- it significantly increases the likelihood of success."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Landing a Job After a Parenting Gap

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!

• Landing a Job after a Parenting Gap: "As much as you may want to believe that quitting your job to parent won’t affect your career long term, the unfortunate reality is that landing a job after a gap can be a challenge."

• How to Keep Learning: "Remember that learning new things isn’t always about getting a raise or earning a promotion. Learning in all forms is inherently beneficial."

• How to Redesign Your Workspace to Be More Productive: "The second step for improving productivity is paying attention to how the environment affects your comfort level. People perform a lot better when they’re comfortable, and several elements have an impact."

• How to Plan Your Own Networking Event: "if you’re interested in organizing your own networking gathering, here are five strategies you can use to curate your attendees and bring a fascinating mix of people together."
• 10 Secrets to Finding a Job You Love:"If you don’t know what you want to do, try as many experiences as possible. Don’t play it safe; do things that make you uncomfortable."

High 5 Career Transitions Roundup: Inspiring Quotes to Help You Get Through Your Work Day

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!

• Inspiring Quotes to Help You Get Through Your Work Day: "If you find yourself in a little mid-week or mid-day slump, take a few moments to re-energize yourself with these inspiring quotes from some of the world’s greatest thinkers."

• Making Time for Networking as a Working Parent: "being a working parent doesn’t mean the end of a thriving network, it just means you have to get a bit more creative and deliberate."

• 12 Things Successful People Never Reveal About Themselves at Work: "Bosses are quick to catch on to naysayers who drag down morale, and they know that there are always enthusiastic replacements waiting just around the corner."

• 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Leader: "As a leader, you don't automatically have followers, only subordinates. It's your behavior as a leader that determines whether or not those subordinates ever turn into followers."
• Bored at Work? Science Says That's a Good Thing: "In the absence of boredom, one would remain trapped in unfulfilling situations, and miss out on many emotionally, cognitively, and socially rewarding experiences."