在打開新的職場大門之前，盡自己的努力增加對新部門的認識，有利于提升你的自信，頭腦中形成一個明確的框架，還會減少自己因一無所知所走的彎路。
你可以這樣搜集信息：
在選擇性的面試之前研究自己的職責；
面試所獲得的知識信息；
在入職以后，老板可以提供一些更深入熟悉的材料，比如產品和服務的特性。同時你也可以自己通過程序，技術和系統來加深印象。自己找到的閱讀材料或老板能提供的一些經驗都很有用。
仔細審視一下自身優勢，這次能否通過不同的辦法將工作干得更出色而且避免自己以前的不足，比如安排時間可以更有效了，跟同事能更融洽相處了，讓自己的潛能得到更大的發揮了。
如果在工作開始之前跟朋友，導師，顧問聊聊這些話題，可以增強自己解決問題和制定策略的能力。
第一個問題
邁入新辦公室的第一天前，以老板的角色來考慮考慮你的職業形象，著妝打扮，生活方式和職業態度。假如你反其道而行之，那后果可想而知。
工作開始以后，要努力認清：
組織結構；
組織人員；
工作和他人的關系；
交際：包括與上司，下屬和其他人的交往；部門之間互相配合，比如跟人事部之間；
建立交際網：通過口頭交流，便簽，郵件，會議等；
文字或口頭程序和規則的執行，比如有關健康，福利和歧視政策等；
公司是否取得ISO 9000國際質量認證體系和相關的質量鑒定認可；
公司的地理環境；
企業的歷史文化；
假如你沒有工作職位描述，向主管要一份，然后你就可以對自己的工作范圍有個清清楚楚的了解了。不要只是確定自己至少要完成的工作標準而是要最大限度的發揮自己的潛力。花一個月去了解這些是比較理想的，問題得到解決總比還是一籠統要好，六個月才了解就顯得有點長了。
應該找到：
領導的局限；
工作的特性和主要目標；
上司和同事的愿景；
老板的反饋；
工作局限，比如：人際關系，產品，服務等等；
工作與其他系統的相互配合；
擁有的資源；
工作的特點和應該分配給每個人的時間；
工作的主要問題和特征；
應該做的事：
多聽；
謙虛；
運用技巧和謀略；
干實事；
不應該做的：
不停的談論以前是如何如何做的；
評論你的以前的現在的同事和老板；
在確定你的偶像之前不要加入小團伙或是老往里面扔錢；
Settling into a New Role
Before you commence your new employment, do all you can to increase your awareness of the new organisation. It will boost your confidence, give you a positive frame of mind and reduce the steepness of the learning curve when you do begin.
Build up your information resources from:
Research which you undertook before the selection interview.
Knowledge gained at interview.
Any further familiarisation, which your new employer can provide after you have accepted the offer: for example, literature on products and services, visits to familiarise yourself with procedures, technology, systems, etc.
Any reading or experience which you or your existing employer can arrange.
Reviewing your self-assessment profile. What could you do differently this time around to build a stronger career and avoid some of the weaknesses of your past, eg to delegate or meet deadlines more effectively, relate better to colleagues, maximise your potential, etc? You may find it helpful to strengthen your resolve and formulate some strategies here by talking these issues through in advance with a friend, mentor, counsellor, etc.
Initial Issues
Before going in on the first day, consider what 'image' the employer feels is appropriate to your job - appearance, clothes, life-style, attitudes. If you deviate from these, know what you are doing.
Soon after starting, try to establish:
The organisational structure.
'Who's who' - formally and informally.
The relationship of your job to others.
Communications: up, down and sideways; 'dotted lines', support services available - eg, personnel department.
Preferred communication networks: word of mouth, memos, E-mail, committees, etc.
What sort of procedures or rules operate - written or oral - eg concerning health and welfare, discrimination, etc.
Whether the organisation has received BS EN ISO 9000 status or a similar quality accreditation.
The geography of the organisation.
The history of the enterprise.
Settling into a New Role
If you do not already have a job description, ask for one, and then try to define as clearly as you can the boundaries of your job. You are not seeking to establish the minimum acceptable benchmarks, but frontiers within which you can make your best contribution. Do this constructively and as soon as you can. The first month is ideal. Six months later is too late; your questions will be interpreted rather less generously.
Find out:
The limits of your authority.
The parameters and main objectives of your job.
The expectations of your superiors and colleagues.
The kind of feedback you will receive from superiors.
The limits of your responsibilities - personnel, products, services etc.
The way your job meshes into any quality system in use.
The resources you will have.
The priorities in the job and the proportion of your time you should be giving to each.
The main problem areas and the 'uniqueness' of the job.
Do start by:
Listening a great deal.
Being modest.
Exercising tact and diplomacy.
Being a 'Day One' performer.
Don't start by:
Constantly saying how you used to do it in your last job.
Criticising your new, or former, employers or colleagues.
Joining a clique or hitching your wagon to a star before you're sure you've got the right one!
職場貼士：消除“星期一綜合癥”，要做到在雙休日盡可能過得輕松愉快，不要與平時出現過大的反差，更要避免出現雙休日過度疲勞的狀態
