Starting a new job is never going to be easy, especially if this is your first ‘real-world’ position. Even the most confident people can crumble with obvious issues like hangovers and tardiness.
Here are top 8 ways to impress during those crucial first five days.

1. Introduce yourself to everyone

It’s an incredibly nerve-wracking hurdle to jump over, but once you start introducing yourself, it will almost become second nature to initiate every conversation with “Hi, I’m Dave and I’ve just started in Marketing.” It will probably get a bit awkward when you introduce yourself to Anna from Sales 14 times, but just laugh it off, it’s your first week after all (though you might want to consider an eye test too).

2. Find yourself a veteran
colleague to cling to:

Well, don’t take ‘cling to’ literally. Seeing as you’ve already introduced yourself to everyone in sight, including the CEO’s dog, there should have been someone that stood out as ‘your sort of person’. Find this person in the corridor, co-ordinate lunch breaks with them, or just make them a cup of tea… then turn on your charm. It helps if they’ve been at the company since the dawn of time, as you’ll be able to fire any potentially embarrassing questions at them, or they can act as your personal inventory of names.

3. Accept every invitation:

Ensure your weekday schedule is clear so that you can jump on any chance you receive to socialise with your new colleagues. In case you were wondering, you don’t need to play hard to get during your first week; your co-workers won’t know you well enough to actually want your company. So give them a reason to by heading to the local for a few Friday evening drinks.

4. Express the qualities that your employers liked initially:

What was it that they loved about you in your interview? Be it your experience, your insight, your background or even your sense of humour, make sure you show off these qualities from the get-go. Your employers will soon realise that they made the right decision hiring you, and that you aren’t ‘all-talk, no action’.

5. Make lots of drinks:

It may sound demeaning, but having good drinks-making skills will see you get noticed instantly. Jot down a few notes on how the colleagues you wish to impress take their drinks. Learn where all the ingredients are, and soak up your co-workers’ habits: which fridge to use, what is communal, where the petty cash is kept.

6. Get to know your boss:

And not just through email, go and introduce yourself. Small talk is still valuable, so ask how their weekend was, offer them a drink and generally fight against every shy fibre in your body because you need and want to make a good impression.

7. Document your achievements:

Don’t be ashamed to toot your own flute; be a ‘nerd’ and write down everything you achieve and any praise you receive. A list like this will help with performance reviews, and if you’re having a bad day, just take a look at your ‘brag sheet’ and remind yourself of how hard you’ve worked.

8. Update your social media accounts:

Adjust your Facebook, Twitter and Linked In profiles to include your new job, and while you’re at it, follow the company too – this shows how enthused you are about your newly acquired role, and it will keep the social media team happy. But be careful. Identifying with your new job could incriminate you and your new company if anything risqué appears under your online personal.

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/top-tips-to-impress-during-your-first-week-of-a-new-job-2015-8

ok but no sauce.... Modified- life is funny cos when this thread first came out i just finished my msc and didnt have a job but today things are different. God is great

So on point but you forgot one

9. No do pass yourself

Hope to make use of these tips when I get my oil and gas job.~So be it~

HerexG:
So on point but you forgot one

9. No do pass yourself

exactly,I TOO KNOW or maybe op doesnt reside in nigeria.hmm ok o

make I dey start to dey compile am - dts like 5yrs from now

Same thing I did... Today they've turned me into a slave in the office.
I do basically everything that is out of my job function including fixing the printer, servicing computers, proof reading my bosses and Co workers mails, doing their private assignments, coaching them on courses I've never studied, basically everything!!!! Others on the team would just sit and wait for Mr. Smart guy to get things done while they fluff around forming we no sabi do am. Show them how to do it a million times, they'll still pretend like they don't know how to do it. I return home everyday as good as dead.
My boss would say, the reward for hardworking is more work.
Next time, am just gonna a keep it on the low. Anything to does not pass through my desk ain't my business.
Nigerians could be very good at taking opportunities. That I know.

Number 10
remember there is recession


Number 11
dont bite more than you can chew


Number 12
(for females) don't get 2 close to ur boss, else you ll 'off pant'


Number 13
remember you are jux a new employee and their salawi is bigger than yours, so spend wisely

Number 14
try to keep your konji under control for the first 4 months, know every one well, then your konji can take it from there

No one likes an ITK.

Can eat whatever anyone offer me cox I love shorting people ration

I think this is for the UK (Make a cup of tea) LOOOOOOOOOOOL.

In Nigeria just work 7am-10pm and everyone will notice you

OK, but if you over do am, everybody go hate you

The article wasnt even modified for Nigerian realities. Making drinks and tea in the office?? Frying akara or making eba woulda been better.

Na so I do for my last job wey dem wan turn me to monkey. Na you go still tire at last

This tip z only for girls oh,the weekend of the first week ehn









arrange a date with ur boss

dirtymoney:
Same thing I did... Today they've turned me into a slave in the office.
I do basically everything that is out of my job function including fixing the printer, servicing computers, proof reading my bosses and Co workers mails, doing their private assignments, coaching them on courses I've never studied, basically everything!!!! Others on the team would just sit and wait for Mr. Smart guy to get things done while they fluff around forming we no sabi do am. Show them how to do it a million times, they'll still pretend like they don't know how to do it. I return home everyday as good as dead.
My boss would say, the reward for hardworking is more work.
Next time, am just gonna a keep it on the low. Anything to does not pass through my desk ain't my business.
Nigerians could be very good at taking opportunities. That I know.

TRUE TALK MY BROTHER

Turks:
No one likes an ITK.

That's why nothing gets done in the Nigerian system, plus misery sure loves company!

My only advice for a newbie on a job, is observe the environment you have found yourself. Learn the culture, work rate and a bit about the people. A lot of the above the poster stated could get you in the "I too know" list here in Nigeria.

Mtcheeeeeeeeew... Face your business... In a Nigerian setting when you mingle too much with co-workers, they tend to poison your mind with issues they are very lazy at (i. e complaining about their boss, how he is not doing so many things rightly). So many Co-workers are poisonous to the mind!!!

Nice recipe

Updating ur new Job on social media.... The opposite of a comment that once hit 200 likes.
After a lady who is a church accountant was robbed, The suspect confessed of finding about the lady's position and job from her facebook account.
BEST IS TO ALWAYS EXCHANGE PLEASANTRIES AND BE PUNCTUAL, NEVER LET HANDSHAKES EXCEED UR WRIST, ELSE U WILL REGRET IT ALL LATER.

Ok..but i dont have a job.


listen to my songs at http://my.notjustok.com/p/oracle/

Last but not the list, never outshine ur master.

osjoshua:
Number 10
remember there is recession


Number 11
dont bite more than you can chew


Number 12
(for females) don't get 2 close to ur boss, else you ll 'off pant'


Number 13
remember you are jux a new employee and their salawi is bigger than yours, so spend wisely

Number 14
try to keep your konji under control for the first 4 months, know every one well, then your konji can take it from there

...Off ur pant

I've done these things for the 6months yet not been appreciated, now I'm resigning at the end of this month.

We don hear u sir. But that making of tea though; in Nigeria, for this economy recession?

HerexG:
So on point but you forgot one

9. No do pass yourself

Correct !!

The moment an employee joins or forms a caucus, that's the begining of the end of that career. Do not partake in office politics & gossip. It ruins!!

Best advice for a new employee is to Be yourself, don't try too hard to please people.
Try and learn as much as you can, ask questions (intelligent questions). Never stay idle, ask for sth to do, always come in earlier and leave a bit later than others.

Very theoretical stuffs, doesn't work in real life!

I can only but smile

I've seen newbies come and go.
I've seen oldies retrenched.
And wisdom has taught me that it's not in playing eye service. Only start what you can finish.

Whether you make the best tea or you carry your boss' bag from his car to his desk, when the day of reckoning comes and you are found wanting, you'll be kicked out.

My take on this is;
Work hard, take your job like it's your personal business and never ever put yourself at risk of being fired!