High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Is it Time to Quit Your Job?

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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• Should You Quit Your Day Job?: "Playing it safe and not taking chances to stretch yourself, means that in 2-3 years you’ll be exactly the same person as you are today. This sends a signal to recruiters and hiring managers that you have plateaued."

• 9 Ways to Win Over Your Boss: "If something isn’t at the top of your list but your boss expresses that it’s a priority – then it immediately becomes your priority, too."                                                      
• The Most Important 15 Minutes of My Day: "I’m a huge fan of highly regimented creativity – a notion that seems paradoxical, I know. But it works."


• How to Build an Ironclad Network: "Your request for a conversation must be sincere and free of hidden agendas. You will not ask for a job, you won't even mention the word job during your conversation."


• 5 Tricks to Starting a Business While Working Full Time: "If you haven't already realized that there's no true job security, now is a good time to start thinking about how you could bring in additional streams of revenue."