You can benefit from more opportunities later in your career if you prioritize them according to the skills you can acquire, says Peter Roper of Google. Always think about the skill set you can develop with two or three years at your current job or next position, Roper advises.

If you work in a competitive environment, adapt your mindset by establishing short-term and long-term goals to strive for, writes Christopher Taylor. Use your strong points to perform your role to the best of your ability as you help your team succeed.

You can attract attention from hiring managers, recruiters and future clients through the strategic use of keywords on LinkedIn, writes career coach Robert Hellmann. A simple way to test your use of keywords is to do a search on the site for the terms you think a hiring manager would look for and see if your profile comes up.

Companies that dominate their industries see growth and profitability, but that success doesn't seem to trickle down to workers, according to research of company financial data. While employees at such "superstar firms" make more, on average, there are fewer of them in total.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki likes to ask job candidates how they would improve the company's products or a neutral product during interviews. Another favorite question of Wojcicki's is how the candidate handles emails, which she says can reveal a lot about the candidate's organizational skills and workflow.

While your commute length, benefits and the quality of your relationships can help improve your satisfaction at work, having a life outside work and making enough money to afford the activities you enjoy come at the top, writes Ran Zilca, the chief data science officer at Happify, Inc. "If you have a job that grants you both of these, you might be happier than you realize," Zilca writes.

Scientists in Russia are lab-engineering woolly mammoths to come back and inhabit a plan called Pleistocene Park to slow the pace of climate change, writes Ross Andersen. Research suggests having wide swaths of grasslands and large animals will help the Earth's surface reflect more sunlight than forests do, which would allow the ground to stay colder.