Newcomers in the society will be happy when getting jobs, but happiness will soon be diminished by trepidation caused by their work.  After all, schools are very different from workplaces, newcomers having ideals and tremendous drive will be confronted with various challenges.  For examples, can they do jobs well?  Do they know how to reduce pressure, forge an interpersonal relationship, and handle conflicts of interest? etc.  Veteran colleagues may regard them as greenhorns because of their excessively fond beliefs and ideas.  Not ony jokes often arise, but also make the supervisors have a bad impression.  In order to reduce the chance of newcomers making mistakes, we have formulated the "guidelines for newcomers in careers".  The guidelines help them get accustomed to working life faster and surmount various adjustment problems at the outset of careers.  Then they can fare well in the career paths, and smoothly complete self-planning.   

1, Speak less, listen more and make more friends.

Failure to grasp situations and expressing nonsensical opinions at random are newcomers' greatest taboos.  After all, you are still a greenhorn and know little about matters concerning people and businesses.  So you had best carefully observe circumstances and listen to others.  As for unfamiliar matters, you must consult experienced colleagues, broadly collect information inside the company, figure out everyone's personality and seek to get along with them.  It is necessary to make more buddies and forge an amicable relationship extensively.

Suggestions:  Avoid being involved in fractional conflicts, so as to prevent being damaged accidentally in strife, which may affect your future development.  Altogether, interpersonal relationship is a profound knowledge relevant to career.  Keep speaking less, listening more and making more friends, you will work more smoothly.

2. Narrow the gap between ideals and reality, go your own way which fits you most.

Newcomers just starting careers are usually ambitious and have sky-high expectations.  However, after a few months, they will get to know that ideals conflict with reality.  If they fail to face the reality and adjust themselves, then they will probably quit their jobs soon and become jobless.  There is often a wide gap between concepts learnt from school textbooks and commercial competitive rules in careers.  That situation makes them sigh, "My standards are high but few others agree, and I won't agree on their low ones either." 

Suggestions: Strike a balance between ideals and reality, seek to narrow the gap between them without compromising your moral conscience.  Make small concessions in some areas in which a compromise can be reached, then you will work happily and harmoniously with your colleagues.

3. Convert working pressure into driving force.

People face different pressures in different jobs.  Only if you try hard to accumulate work experience, you can change pressure to impetus for making efforts.  It is the right way to face pressure positively, otherwise you will plunge into a dreadful vicious circle in careers.  For example, your are scolded aloud by the supervisor because of incompetent job performance and then become dejected, thus from each Monday you are waiting to get off work on Friday.  Such a negative attitude will cause a job phobia.  For another example, you work overtime every day but you still fail to finish the tasks assigned by the supervisor, then you gradually lose your self-confidence.

Suggestions: Consulting the supervisor more and making greater efforts.  Besides those, you had best dispel daily tense pressure by taking exercises or doing leisurely activities during spare time on holidays.  Neither drive yourself excessively nervous, nor let yourself be extortionately relax and idle.  Regard working pressure as a normal phenomenon, and try harder to learn.

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