While you are searching for a job, it seems to you that the most important thing is to find it. But to find the job is not enough, it’s also important to manage to keep it.  Remember there is a probation period; time when you and your new employer persistently watch after each other to decide if they shall be able work together. Therefore in the first few months it is very important to follow precisely all office rules. Maybe it would be necessary to watch after some of your habits and wishes that have a higher chance to keep the job. I am sure it is worth it.

1. Keep your sentiments.  There are not a lot of people that right from the beginning at a new job feel quite at home, so the dissatisfaction at the beginning is natural. There could be a lot of things that you don’t like; your goal is not to show your disappointments. If there is something that you can’t live with, you always have the right to leave. But until you haven’t made final decision behave properly and be a good child.

2. Don’t argue with your boss.  Even if you want to show your knowledge, experience, and creative potential don’t get involved in heavy discussion with your boss, try to avoid proving the truth at the beginning of your career in new company. The best way to show your ability at that moment is to faultlessly take care of the tasks that are assigned to you.

3. Don’t change the established way of business. At the beginning don’t try to change the way of handling business in your new office. Look around you, you might by accident step on somebody’s toe.  People, in general, don’t like to get comments from newcomers. But when you become well known, the company will gladly accept good ideas from you.

4. Hide your habits. It doesn’t matter how your habits can be, try to not show them. You are only the one that is used to them. They can seem to new colleagues, inappropriate, and even wild. Don’t worry, the time will come when your colleagues won’t be bothered seeing you carrying your own thermos with coffee or wearing a bright colored shirt. But at the beginning all this will be considered unacceptable.

5. Don’t do more than you have been asked.  Don’t try to surprise your boss with the fantastic working capacity and willing to do any job. That can make your colleagues unhappy and management can not approve too, having seen in it desire to toady.

6. Be agreeable and smile.  At the beginning you have to be ready that you might be assigned somebody’s duties that are not in your job description. Even if you don’t like all day long faxing, sorting documents, or making coffee don’t get upset. Perhaps, it is faith of all beginners in a new office.

7. Don’t be late, leave on time. Be on time is a very good habit. It will always be useful to you. But at the beginning, punctuality is especially important. To leave work on time is also very important, watch when colleagues leave the office and do the same. There are places where all personnel, with a noisy crowd, together leave the office on time and there are others where it is common to stay a little bit after hours.

8. Don’t use your phone for personal needs.  Don’t use the office phone for personal needs. If you must make a personal call then have short conversation. Don’t use the cell phone in the office either; the ring might disturb your colleagues. To step outside to use cell phone is not good idea either. People might thing that you’re hiding something or even worse, looking for another job. Put your cell phone on vibration and communicate shortly.

9. Take a brake from using internet and e-mail for personal use. Don’t rush to start using internet for personal needs. Don’t send any messages and e-mails to your friends for a while. Some companies carefully watch that the employee, especially new, does on the computer within day, and even checking their personal mail. Be aware of that.

10. Watch what you are wearing to work. At the beginning, people in the office are watching what their new coworkers are wearing; the clothes, the shoes etc. So wear business clothes, accurately and not strikingly. Don’t give them a chance to condemn your appearance.

It is also very important to create a healthy relationship with your boss and colleagues in the new office. To learn that I suggest to read the “Assertiveness: The Art of Getting Your Way Nicely” report. This report contains powerful information that will help you influence everyone around you and change your life and career for the better.

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