Well, I have landed my dream job — I’m under contract to publish this book and I am in the midst of writing it right now.
“I’ve Landed My Dream Job — Now What???” focuses on what needs to happen in the critical 30-days after you start your new job, whether that job is a new one in your current company or a new job with a new company. Your hiring manager wants you to succeed and you need to ingratiate yourself into the team’s culture and produce results. When we start a new job we are often overwhelmed — with everything.
What should we focus on doing? What should we be learning? How do I know if I am being successful? What happens if I’m thrown into the work with a boss that provides no more help than determining if I can sink or swim?
Yup, that’s the subject and I think too many of us just react to the new position instead of taking actionable steps to prove we’re right for the job — and to determine if the job is right for us.
Over the course of the next month, I’ll ask some questions of you — and I really want to hear responses from you so that the book focuses on what will solve your biggest fears, problems, and setbacks that come with the new job.
Here’s the first question:
If you’re a manager, what do you want your new employee to accomplish in the first 30-days? And if you’re an employee, what do you want your manager and team provide to you in the first 30-days so you can succeed in your dream job?
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Personally, I want to be challenged. Give me something you know I can’t do and see how I handle it. Put me under the most stressful situation you can muster and try to make me fold. If I come out still standing and honest about my work, then I will succeed just fine, only time will make my work better.
Tony, this is an interesting answer. In starting a new job, most people are a bit nervous, perhaps even apprehensive because of the new environment, new team, and new manager.
So to immediately be challenged with something you know you can’t do puts you in the position of resolving something that is very difficult — and you don’t know anything about the company culture or the behaviors of your new manager and team.
If you were trying to show success in a new position, this sounds like a very high risk way of doing it.
Am I missing something?
Personally, I want to be challenged. Give me something you know I can’t do and see how I handle it. Put me under the most stressful situation you can muster and try to make me fold. If I come out still standing and honest about my work, then I will succeed just fine, only time will make my work better.
Tony, this is an interesting answer. In starting a new job, most people are a bit nervous, perhaps even apprehensive because of the new environment, new team, and new manager.
So to immediately be challenged with something you know you can’t do puts you in the position of resolving something that is very difficult — and you don’t know anything about the company culture or the behaviors of your new manager and team.
If you were trying to show success in a new position, this sounds like a very high risk way of doing it.
Am I missing something?
As the hiring manager, I want to be sure that my decision to hire is validated. If the new employee doesn't come to me with an annoying amount of questions, I am going to wonder what they are doing and whether they are focused on getting a handle on how things really work in the organization. I don't have to be the source of all wisdom, but I do want to know that they are intracting with someone and keeping me in the loop about ow they see the work flow you talked baout in another post.