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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
* Don’t 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 won’t be disappointed.
* Expect to be surprised. The odds are that
many things about your job won’t 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 you’ll 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 can’t 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 can’t become a good leader until you have learned to be a good follower
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7. Understand your organization’s 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 don’t 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 can’t 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