WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU GET A NEW JOB

CONGRATULATIONS!

• You’ve been hired por a new job. How well you succeed will depend in part on your personality.

• Enthusiasm, goor cheer, and hard work will go a long toward ensuring your success. But that may not be enough “It can be difficult to walk into a new organization, learn the job, learn the culture and get all the relationships right” says Guy Beaudin of RHR International firm. “There are many ways it can go wrong”, the solution, he says, is to plan for success.

PLANNING FOR SUCCESS

1.-Step: Dont try to do too much right away.

• During your first three months, focus on learning, says Beaudin. When you are starting a new job, never say, “In my old job, we used to do it this way, and therefore we should do it that way here.”

2.-.Step:Define your role• Based on your job interview, you

probably have a general understanding of your new responsabilities. Now you need details, says Dan Coughlin, author of Corporate Catalysts: How to Make your Company More Successful, Wathever Your Title, Income, or Authority. Coughlin suggest you ask your boss what he or she would most like you to accomplish in your first months, and how your performance will be measured. Then periodically update your boss on your progress with one- page reports, and ask him or her if there’s anything else you be doing.

DAN COUGHLIN

3.-Step: Learn the culture

• Some companies are very structured: The boss makes all the decisions.

• In other companies, you may need to hold a group meeting before making decisions.

• Either style can work

4.-Step: Build relationships

• To succeed, you need help from other people. Get to know your fellow employees. But don’t limit yourself to the obvious choises, such as your boss, your immediate co-workers, or, if you are a….

• Manager, the people who report to you. You may need to work with people in other parts of the company, too,and with suppliers and costumers. “Be courteous and respectful, and remember you are a begginer”…...…..

advises Richard Templar, author of “The Rules of Work: A Definitive Code for Personal Succes”

5.-Step: Solve a problem

• After you have been working for a month or so, Beaudin says, you may want to try for one early win. “look for something that has been a problem in your area for a while, and that people want to see corrected”, he says.”If you can made that happen pretty quickly, it will help build your reputation. But it should not be anything that involves big change”. Once you have been working for several months you can tackle more ambitious projects.

6.-Step: Making it work

• Even with a good plan it can be difficult to adjust to a new boss, new co-workers, new responsabilities, and a new corporate culture.You may even have to deal with new routines in your personal life. For example your work hours may be different requiring you to rearrange your home life

DON’T GET DISCOURAGED

BE YOURSELF

ASK QUESTIONS

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF

TO GIVE THE BEST POSSIBLE CHANCEOF SUCCEDING, CAREER EXPERTS OFFER THESE ADDITIONAL TIPS :

TAKE CARE YOURSELF

• Especially during your • First week, go to bed

early and get plenty of sleep, “Dont´party all night and then expect

• To go into a new job looking good and ready to do your best,” says Templar.”

• “And be sure to arrive on time.”

BE YOURSELF• “Starting a new job is a lot like

dating”, says

Jason Stevens, president of www.jobanimal.com, a career Web site.”you want to make a good first impression, but you have to be yourself.You are going to spend a lot of time with your new co-workers, so you want them get to know the real YOU.” (see your portrait below)

Ask questions

• Career coaches and management consultants agree that you should ask plenty of questions during your first few months.

• “People will appreciate that you ask questions instead of assuming you know everything,”says management consultant Joyce Gioia, president of The Herman Group.

Don’t get discouraged

• The first day or week

• In a new job can be particularly challenging

• You may get lost, you may do things that look foolish,you may make mistakes. “Don’t be too hard on yourself,” says Templar.”Remenber,adds

• Stevens,”you were chosen over the other candidates for a good reason.”

Quick quiz• During your first weeks on the joob, it is important to show your boss that you know what to do

without bothering him by asking him what he expects from you ( )

A.-True B.-False

• A new boss, new co-workers, new responsabilities, and a new corporate culture.Maybe you may even have to deal with new routines in your personal life. For example your work hours may be different requiring you to rearrange your home life. ( )

A.-True B.-False

• In a new job you need solve a big problem , it will help buildy your reputation. ( )

A.-True B.-False

• The Rules of Work : A Definitive Code for Personal Sucess his author is Jason Stevens ( )

A.-True B.-False

• In your first three months in the job, you must to do too much. ( )

A.-True B.-False