The Job Search Checklist

Your First Six Months

Your First Month

  Look before You Leap. As you look around, you begin to see areas big and small that are ripe for improvement. But hold your fire and bite your tongue! It is too soon for you to offer your opinion. Move slowly, and proceed with extreme caution as you begin to navigate the new terrain of your job and company culture.

Be willing to make suggestions, but be careful not to come in guns blazing, pointing out all the different things that are broken within your department. You want your team to ask, ‘What would ...