New position? Succeed in your integration

The first days in a new position are, without a doubt, the most critical and decisive.
It will be necessary, indeed, to make yourself known, to be noticed (in a good way) and to ensure that your contribution is appreciated. Also, cleverly managing internal relations would be necessary in order to make the most of this new opportunity that this new position represents.

Here is some advice to succeed in your integration.

1. Work at home

Before you start, prepare your work at home. Read the documentation concerning the company, find out information, study hard like a student, intelligently and methodically. Fill your brain and memory with products, services offered, commercial strategies used…
Try to integrate, or even master, the main axes, objectives and challenges and pay particular attention to what concerns your position, your role.
Think about making a list of questions to which you want to obtain clear and useful answers.

2. Discover, remember

If you have the possibility, organize meetings with the people with whom you will interact:
- Remember their names and their functions.
- Show yourself to be open and curious.
- Discover the services with which you will work, their role, their mission(s).
- Ask useful questions in order to obtain the essential answers for the future.

3. Keep a good tone

Your clothes, your outfit speaks volumes about you. Indeed, clothes make the man…
Thus, convey the right message by adapting to the company culture.
Focus on sobriety, discretion, courtesy and moderation in speech and behavior.

4. Be up-to-date

Company culture reigns supreme? Learn to master it!
Find out information, observe, understand, mentally integrate the unwritten rules and respect them. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. This will increase your efficiency and credibility with your colleagues.
Generally, absolutely avoid lateness, rude and/or vulgar terms, questionable jokes and lax attitudes. In short, be respectful of and towards your environment. Be "pro".

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5. Avoid isolation

Whether you accept the idea or not, it is a reality: your success also depends on others, on your integration within the team, on the atmosphere in which you will evolve and on the overall work provided by the whole. Isolating yourself is to be absolutely avoided. On the contrary, you must work with others, understand their personality, identify the skills around you, the shortcomings… And work with it!

6. Work and stay up-to-date

Seriousness, more seriousness, always seriousness: this is the recipe for integration and, more globally, for success in a company. Do what you have to do, with application, zeal and think about reporting what is done by email. Have an open and friendly attitude with everyone, while not aligning yourself with anyone in particular, at the beginning. Don't join any particular groups; it is the best way to get into conflicts and waste your time, your energy and all credibility with your superiors.

7. Be detached without being disengaged, keep your perspective

Certainly, integrating a new position is exciting, exhilarating. The tendency to see everything through rose-tinted glasses is quickly triggered. Quickly, you will be charmed by new people, processes… However, learn to remain wary and attentive. Without being a killjoy, keep your critical mind in the face of imperfections and dysfunctions. This will even allow you, perhaps, to make some of them disappear.
Show yourself to be calm, listen to what is happening and think about your perspectives in terms of simple, but rewarding small victories, which will bring you confidence and respect from your superior.