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Starting new job - tips please!

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Rainydays55 · 08/01/2022 17:35

I start a new job in a few weeks. After nearly 10 years in my current job I’m already nervous.
Any tips for the first few days in new job but also this inbetween period of working my notice?
Thank you in advance!

OP posts:
MrsMoastyToasty · 10/01/2022 13:24

I always think that you need to learn the "language" of your employer. I've worked for 3 different banks in 20 years and for what is effectively the same thing has had 3 different names depending on the employer.

WinterHoliday · 10/01/2022 13:37

Having been in a similar situation, looking back there are a few things I would recommend.

As well as writing lots of notes I would add asking questions. You can get away with a lot of questions when you are new. I didn't ask as much as I should. A few months down the line I realised there were some areas which still confused me and I felt awkward asking at that stage as I felt I should be expected to know.

I had a long notice period from my old job and I wish I had done more research on my new organisation during that time. I'd looked at their website but only the main sections. I realised later that there is a ton of information on there which I kind of had to swot up on when I first started. I wish I'd been a bit more familiar with the background to the organisation before starting. It's probably obvious to a lot of people but having spent 14 years at the same company, the process of moving industries was unfamiliar to me.

I was a bit homesick for some of the people when I started. (I still miss close friends from my old job and haven't made the same kind of friends in the new one, as nice as they are, they are very much colleagues and not friends). However, with hindsight I wish I'd moved job sooner. I had been stuck in my comfort zone for too long.

As another poster said up thread, it is really tiring. Be prepared for that. I wasn't! Also I changed jobs pre-pandemic and found the longer commute tiring and kept coming down with colds in my first few months which didn't help. It may be easier in some respects working from home, but tiring in others if you have to have a lot of Zoom meetings.

RestingStitchFace · 10/01/2022 18:57

Thank you everyone. For those of you who have left a job after being there for a few years did you find it a hard decision?

Quite the opposite - it was a 'if I don't get out of here I'm going to go raving mad' thing. Very toxic environment. I was sad to leave behind a number of very decent colleagues but the benefits outweighed the negatives...

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