Beyond the Job Search: Blogs to Help You Discover, Build, and Sustain Your Ideal Career
Resumes, cover letters, and interviews…oh my! Finding a job is a balancing act of staying on top deadlines and paperwork. But before you land a job (and even after you land a job) it’s important to have some clarity around what you want to do. Building a happy, sustainable, fulfilling career requires reflection and ongoing development.
To help you out, we’ve found a few blogs that go beyond job search tips and offer research, interviews, and insights on leadership, productivity, passion, success, and balance.
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Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker
There is no shortage of studies claiming to have discovered what makes people successful, happy, and fulfilled. Eric Barker digs a bit deeper,breaking these studies down to better explain how they actually apply to our work and personal lives and interviewing experts.
- Start with: 8 things the most successful people in the world have in common and The way to happiness: Remember the 4 Ps.
Escape From Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim
Written by Pamela Slim, Escape From Cubicle Nation is exactly what it sounds like: a blog dedicated to helping you ditch monotony, discover your passion, and make an impact on the world-at-large. If you’re looking to work for yourself or reinvent your career, let Pamela Slim’s blog be your vanguard.
- Start with: How to get your groove back (getting success once you’ve lost it) and How to make sure your values align with your work.
Fast Company Co.Lead
Fast Company looks to chronicle all that is new, exciting, and effective in the business world. As a result, their leadership content frequently showcases the most progressive advice on how leadership and our work lives are changing in a variety of industries.
- Start with: How to find happiness in a job you hate and Want to finally stop procrastinating? Prepare your mood first.
Lifehacker
Known for being a tech blog, Lifehacker has expanded their brand to include robust, varied, and targeted productivity advice cultivated from the internet and leaders in the tech industry. Peruse Lifehacker for great articles on maximizing your work life.
- Start with: Why your brain can’t handle a full work day and Why your New Year’s resolutions will fail, and what to do instead.
Study Hacks by Cal Newport
We’re always wondering how to be more productive: Which app should we use? What’s the best way to plan our day? Cal Newport offers insights on productivity and developing expertise through research, interviews, and his own personal experience.
- Start with: Email won’t help you win a Nobel Prize and What’s holding you back from your creative potential? You don’t work nearly hard enough.
Wired4Leadership
Wired 4 Leadership has one goal: to help good leaders become great leaders. The advice given on this blog is geared toward building on leadership qualities and creating change, innovation, and success in the workplace.
- Start with: Is going with your gut smart leadership? and The case for new volunteers.
Work Happy Now by Karl Straib
Work Happy Now chronicles Karl’s experiences and lessons learned in creating a happy career, after a string of jobs that left him unfulfilled. Work Happy Now sets out to help you be happy in your work, whether that means finding new employment or changing your own perspective.
- Start with: 7 pieces of career advice you wish you had known sooner and How to create a better job for yourself.
YNPN Twin Cities
For young nonprofit professionals, by young nonprofit professionals, the Twin Cities chapter of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network creates content to empower fellow fledgling careerists in their work lives by sharing insights and tips on navigating the nonprofit sector and building a supportive network.
- Start with: On relevance and innovation and networking without borders.
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by Aaron McCoy