Don't let your first job within a company determine where you can eventually go, writes LinkedIn Senior Director of Talent Acquisition Tey Scott. Don't be afraid to tap into your network for assistance and be willing to consider advice and feedback.

Elizabeth Zeigler began as Graham-Pelton Consulting's first flextime employee and has since moved on to become the president and CEO. To move forward at the company, Zeigler made sure that colleagues knew she would check messages during certain portions of her off days and worked hard to become more visible to the company's leaders.

LinkedIn users should be sure to create public profile badges that allow for simple promotion of their LinkedIn pages on blogs or websites. Users should also incorporate plugins that provide LinkedIn functionality on personal websites, writes Kayla Matthews.

Continuing education and telecommuting with flexible scheduling are among perks employees value most, say members of the Young Entrepreneur Council. Some companies offer personal-development events or team-led workouts to boost morale and retention.

Don't accept the myth that if you aren't getting enough interviews, you simply need to apply for more jobs, writes Richard Moy. Instead, make sure that you're applying to jobs that align with your career goals and take occasional breaks from your search if you're getting too stressed out.

When you wake up in the middle of the night and you can't fall back asleep, don't lie in bed and stare at the ceiling, advises Shelley Hershner. Instead, get up and go to a dark portion of the house outside of your bedroom and sit until you feel sleepy enough to go back to bed.

Ants domesticated certain species of fungi and started the farming process 30 million years ago, writes Sara Chodosh. Certain fungi can't spread their seeds on their own, so ants play a key role in cultivating them and then consuming them, which makes the relationship symbiotic.