How to Succeed in Your First Job: Tips for College Graduates

by Elwood F. Holton III, Sharon S. Naquin

How to Succeed in Your First Job Part One of a three-part series of a series of practical guidebooks on work transitions. These new books guide new hires-and their managers-step by step through the "breaking-in" process that is absolutely essential for helping new employees thrive. It is relatively easy to get new hires to be competent to perform the basic tasks they were hired to do. But success on the job is due to much more than that. It comes from understanding how the organization really works-the unique aspects of how things get done in that particular organization. And it comes from learning how to "fit in"-knowing how to get accepted, get respected, and earn credibility.
The three books in the series
How to Succeed in Your First Tips for New College Graduates
Helping Your New Employee Tips for Managers of New College Graduates
So, You're New How to Succeed When You Change Jobs
Built around author Ed Holton's dynamic 12-step process-extensively field-tested and firmly grounded in research-these three volumes give new college graduates and their supervisors, as well as seasoned professionals who've changed jobs, essential insights and tools for mastering a variety of transition challenges.
Given the high costs associated with new employee turnover, no organization can afford to leave the new employee assimilation process to chance. Corporate human resources directors, managers of new employees, individual employees making job transitions, and career counselors alike will find powerful and practical new ideas and tools in these essential handbooks.

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Ravie13 · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book should be required reading for every person preparing for their first job. However, the outlook is very bleak and depressing. Basically it says, "You won't like it and it's all politics." Ugh.

[michael prado · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lacking extended client case-studies, business dialogue, any real examples of organizational culture, sound psychological principles and logically-condensed content, these 80 pages of didactic instruction come off as tiresome enumeration of cliched advise one strains to apply practically.

[Sebah Al-Ali · Rating 3 out of 5]

به الكثير من الأفكار / الحقائق الواقعية عن طبيعة العمل و كيف تختلف متطلباته عن المتطلبات المعتادة في السياق الدراسي . الكثير من الأمور التي أشار إليها (على أنها خاطئة) يقع بها الكثير منا ، تداركها و فهمها يساعد حتما في التميز في السياق الوظيفي .

أظنه من المواضيع المهمة التي تحتاج الجامعات أن تقدمه لطلابها لتحضيرهم لعالم الوظائف ، سواء عن طريق هذا الكتاب أو عن طريق تقديم نصائح المختصين / المتخرجين العاملين .

[Elaine]

You'll need to figure out how to fit in and contribute as you start your job. It's all going to be new and different. Advice on how to adjust.

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