Twelve Steps to First-year Job Success

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Twelve Steps to First-year Job Success

• Charlie Endicott
• 2007

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Twelve Steps to First-Year Job Success

• 1. Adopt the right attitudes
• Dont hang on to student attitudes
  and
• behaviors too long.
• Understand and earn the rights,
• responsibilities and credibility of
  your cohorts

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2. Adjust your expectations

• If you work at keeping your expectations
  
• realistic, you wont be disappointed.
• Expect to be surprised. The odds are
  that
• many things about your job wont be what
  
• you expect them to be.

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3. Master breaking-in skills

• Learn the art of being new
• The more you understand about being a
  new employee the better off youll be in long
  run.

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4. Manage the impressions you make

• The first impression you make is the last
• impression you make.
• Everything you do will be magnified, thus
• build a good professional reputation.
• Want your co-workers to notice your
• professional maturity.

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5. Build effective relationships

• Pay attention to how people communicate
• and work together.
• Find ways to fit in
• Remember, you cant change the culture
• until you are accepted into it.

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6. Become a good follower

• Watch your colleagues, pay attention to
• the things they spend their time on.
• Learn the norms and values of the
• organization by watching how other
• behave.
• remember that it takes skill to be a good
• subordinate you cant become a good leader
  until you have learned to be a good follower

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7. Understand your organizations culture

• Pay attention to the ways things are done
• around
• Understand what people expect of you,
• particularly the accepted work ethic,
• social norms, and the limits of behavior.

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8. Develop organizational savvy

• Every organization has its rites of passage
  before you can become a full member of the team.

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9. Understand your new-hire role

• Understand how big a role being new
• plays in everything that happens.
• Co-workers understand the transition
  
  period, so dont be frustrated

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10. Develop work savvy

• Learn what your boss wants, needs and
  expects-and then do it.
• If you make your boss look good, you will
• succeed.

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11. Master the tasks of your job

• Remember that it takes skill to be a good
• subordinate you cant become a good leader
  until you have learned to be a good follower

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12. Acquire the knowledge, skills, and abilities
you need

• Be a good listener
• Make sure you understand what is required
• Learn from the people who have the experience