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5 Motivating Links for the Motivated Career Woman

We're rounding out our Career Kickstart Week with some additional resources from some of our favorite friends.

 

This round-up is part of the final day of our 5-Day Career Kickstart Challenge. We hope you folllowed along as we helped you turn 2016 into the year you remember as your professional turning point. Today's step? Keeping up momentum. 

1. WHISPERS OF PROFESSIONAL CHANGE

What's the one thing millennials want in their careers? If you guessed remote work or flexible hours or even health insurance...you're wrong. (via Inc.)

2. CAREER-FORWARD THINKING

Surprise! Even if you love your current job, your coworkers, your company, your career, all the stuff—you should still be thinking in terms of next steps. (via LinkedIn Pulse Blog)

3. NEW YEAR, NEW CAREER RULES

Stop being the last person to the office in the morning, OK? Plus 26 other bad workplace habits to kick in 2016. (via Refinery29)

4. WOMEN RULE THE WORLD—AND LINKEDIN

The best resource for women interested in furthering their careers? It's probably also the most confusing: LinkedIn. (via Forbes)

5. #SORRYNOTSORRY

You've probably read something about how women have a tendency to apologize in discussions and emails more often than men. Well, 2016 is about taking a stand to further our careers, and there's no reason to apologize for that. Here are tricks to stop saying sorry (at least when you don't actually mean it). (via Refinery29)

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What have you been reading this week? 


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