| So you have landed a new job and anxious to get | | | | the largest plumbing fixture manufacturing supply |
| started building your new career in new company. | | | | company, you need to get excited about plumbing |
| Once you get over your new employee fears and | | | | fixture manufacturing supplies. People who enjoy |
| get oriented to your new space, you will find it takes | | | | the domains they work in are interested in learning |
| more than smiles and kind words to fit in. | | | | more and will ultimately tend to do better on the |
| | | | | job. If you are not prepared to have meaningful |
| Here are few things to keep in mind as you make | | | | conversations about your job or the industry within |
| the transition. | | | | which your company operates, you will not be |
| | | | | happy. |
| Don't whine. At least not to the people you work | | | | |
| with at the office. Talk about any job challenges | | | | Stay on time. If you have a problem being punctual, |
| or work related issues with friends, family or trusted | | | | work really hard to correct that behavior. Be in the |
| colleagues in other companies, and not with your new | | | | office on time, if not early, be back from lunch on |
| coworkers. Avoid complaining about too much | | | | time and do not pack up twenty minutes before |
| work, too many assignments or too long hours at | | | | your shift or day is supposed to end. Arrive on time |
| the office. The fact is, no one really cares how | | | | for meetings and work harder on your own time if |
| much you have to do since everyone else has their | | | | you have to. Of course today's workforce is |
| own work, their own assignments, and their own long | | | | more about productivity than time spent in the |
| hours as well. Avoid becoming too cozy with the | | | | office, but it is still a good idea for to show others |
| resident whiners in your new company as well. | | | | you respect their time. |
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| Make your manager aware of what you are doing | | | | Limit talk about what you did in your old job, |
| and ask for feedback. A colleague once talked to | | | | company or worse in a class. This one is pretty |
| me about a new energetic recruit who showed a lot | | | | hard to do, but it is something you will master |
| of initiative on the job. Although this new worker | | | | eventually. It is been my experience that people |
| meant really well, as my colleague put it, "She was | | | | sometimes don't want to hear new ideas if they |
| running a great race, but she was in the wrong | | | | came from your old job, old company or worse from |
| stadium completely." Make sure the work you are | | | | a class. Of course your prior knowledge will show in |
| doing is relevant and critical to the mission. | | | | your work, but limit talking about where your skills |
| Additionally, make sure your work is being noticed. | | | | come from. You can credit publications, the media |
| It will take a while for you to get into your groove in | | | | or a conference, but not your old job, company or |
| your new office, and making sure you are not | | | | class for new ideas. |
| working contrary to the flow is good. Watch also | | | | |
| that you are not inheriting assignments from those | | | | Of course none of these tips are cast in cement. In |
| who want to hand off their jobs. | | | | addition to the requisite due diligence to do your new |
| | | | | job well, you just need to heed some of these other |
| Show enthusiasm and energy for the job, business or | | | | workplace protocols that will expedite or slow your |
| industry you are in now. If you just got hired by | | | | assimilation in the new environment. |