So You Got The Job! WTF Is Next?: Proven steps to succeed in any new job.

By Greg Weiss

It’s said that the first three months at a new job are the toughest you’ll face.

In fact, 1 in 5 people fail their probation period, and many others leave in just the

first 45 days.

No-one wants that. After all, job-hopping is bad for your health, your financial situation, and your sense of life satisfaction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Global Personal Development Pty Limited
• Release date: Mar 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9780648460701

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So You Got The Job! WTF Is Next by Greg Weiss

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For my two wonderful and talented, millennial-era, adult children, Sam and Mimi, who along with their friends and cousins, have their careers ahead of them.

Make a difference in your own ways.

The world needs you.

Table of Contents

Words of thanks from Greg Weiss

Acknowledgement and thanks

Forward

INTRODUCTION

How to join the 69%

This book is for you

The seven steps of successful onboarding

Who am I to help you?

Why this book, why now?

How to use this book

Chapter 1 - PREPARE FOR BOARDING

What onboarding is not

Onboarding to mitigate probation failure

How to prepare yourself for onboarding

Chapter 2 - A ROADMAP TO ONBOARDING WITHIN THE MCKINSEY 7-S FRAMEWORK

Foundations of the McKinsey & Co 7-S framework

Understanding the 7-S’s for alignment

The seven steps of successful onboarding

Chapter 3 - SHARED VALUES

Benefits of values alignment in the workplace

Identifying personal values

Identifying your employer’s values

Creating values alignment

Where values meet needs

Chapter 4 - STRUCTURE

Benefits of understanding organisational structures in your transition

Formal structures

Informal structures

Aligning with a new culture

Stories

Rituals and routines

Symbols

Organisational structure

Control systems

Power structures

The cultural types

Developing and prioritising valuable relationships

Assimilating with stakeholders

Assimilate with subtle networks

Chapter 5 - STYLE

Mastering reputation management

Discovering your unique personal brand

Managing initial impressions

Making the first 6 seconds count

5 tips for creating positive first impressions

Accumulating reputational credits

Crafting a compelling elevator statement

Chapter 6 - SKILLS

Benefits of exploring strengths for successful onboarding

Strategies for finding your strengths

Applying your strengths

Moving past obstacles

Chapter 7 - STRATEGY

It’s worth understanding your organisation’s strategy

What is your part?

Choose 1 or 2 winning projects

Focus on your Critical Success Factors

Navigating the political environment

Chapter 8 - STAFF

Fitting into teams

Team charter

A SMART goals refresher

Individual goal setting

Building successful relationships

Chapter 9 - SYSTEMS

5 steps to learn something quickly

Adopt a growth mindset

Consider the Kaizen Continual Loop

How do you learn?

Chapter 10 - PREPARE FOR REVIEW

Strategies for Success

Responses to arm yourself with

Questions to consider asking your employer in your review

Expect a written record

Chapter 11 - CONCLUSION

Become one of the 69%

Take the reins

Under review

Your next steps

Footnotes

Words of thanks from Greg Weiss

Thank you for picking up a copy of this book.

I have been encouraged by many people over the years to write a book. Now that it has been done, I can admit that it feels much like becoming a new parent. Excited, delighted, relieved, curious, unsure…

Your support means a lot to me.

If you find this book helpful, here are the best ways to help me spread the word:

Please leave a review of the book on Amazon or wherever you bought this book. Posting a review is easy and doesn’t take much time. Detailed reviews help new readers discover how they too can benefit from this book.

Donate a copy to your local public library or institution of higher education or learning.

Give it as a gift to anyone you know who is about to start a new job.

If you have any questions, or you’d like to share how this book helped you, you can reach me via [e-mail]

Thanks :)

Greg Weiss

Acknowledgement and thanks

I am particularly proud to feature the art of a very talented 15 year old throughout this book. I hope Sacha, that you continue to doodle and draw your way to success. You can find Sacha’s work via sacharena.com

To my darling wife, Debbi. Thanks for your love, support, belief and encouragement. You’ve known about my dream to write a book for the past 30 years. Now that it’s done, I promise it won’t take the next 30 to get the next one out!

To my children Sam and Mimi, I am so proud of who you are - always have been - always will be. But the most important thing in life is that you are proud of the person you are and the life you make for yourselves.

To my father, my hero and strong guiding light, Dooj and to Mum, departed but not forgotten. You have both given me a love of reading and learning.

To Kris for support in writing this book; to Emy for design.

We all have many people in our lives, be they family, friends, colleagues and teachers, who make an impact on us in various ways: through gestures of kindness, words of encouragement, wisdom, perspective, stories and knowledge. I am grateful to all of you.

To the many authors of the thousands of books I have read over the years; especially Tom Peters, Wayne Dyer, Stephen Covey, Thich Nhat Hanh, Tim Ferris, Michael Sliwinski, Dale Carnegie, Dave Allen, Ray Dalio, Seth Godin, Daniel Priestley, Phil Jones, Perry Marshall, Abraham Twerski, Bernadette Jiwa, Elizabeth Gilbert, Deepak Chopra, Daniel Kahnemann, Steven Pressfield, Eckart Tolle, Paramhansa Yogananda, Robert Jordan Fritz, Alan Weiss, Cal Newport, Michael Hauge, Robert Cialdini, Michael Watkins, Russ Harris, Allan Dib, Josh Kaufman, Charles Duhigg, Mike Dooley, James Clear, Nir Eyal, Tal Ben Shahar and many others.

Forward

Of all the many hundreds of people I have coached, it’s the ones with so much opportunity at the early stages of their careers, for whom I especially wrote this book. But in reality, this book is for anyone starting a new job.

I am in the advanced stages of my career. I am at the time in my life where I want to and can help as many people as possible.

I feel I can do this better from the perspective of age and experience – looking backwards – rather than looking forwards.

Oscar Wilde said: Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

My purpose in writing this book is for you to experience working life more fully and without making the same mistakes that I made.

Ideally, when starting a new job, it’s about some key things so you can successfully launch, relaunch or accelerate your career.

I recently received a letter from Tori, 27 years of age, who shared her struggles with starting a new job.

"When I first began my career in buying I had studied a short course, passed and was offered every job I interviewed for.  I felt unstoppable and had friends who had degrees in the subject who were envious of my success. I had always been an A-grade student and everything I went for, I got. I was confident in starting my career, but the realities of the working world hit me quickly.

My new line manager expected so many things out of me that I didn’t understand or know how to do and didn’t have the confidence to admit I didn’t know.

I thought admitting that I didn’t know meant I wasn’t supposed to be in the job, that they’d fire me or I wouldn’t even pass the probation period. I’d sit in meetings and feeling like I was being spoken to in Japanese. I could not understand a thing and I was too embarrassed to ask anyone.

There were options for training to try and help, but I never wanted to be seen actually taking one of these classes because I felt that meant I might be seen as incapable in the first place. 

Quickly I began to drown under the stress and instead of just asking for the help I needed, I chose to jump ship and look for work elsewhere.

I talked my way in to a new job with one of the biggest companies in fashion at the time, beating out (apparently 4,000) other applicants.

Unfortunately the job description was misleading. I essentially became a glorified PA. It was a very bad fit. This almost broke me. I believed I had failed once again and no matter how much I was told that the company was at fault, even by HR. But I didn’t believe them - I thought there was something wrong with me. I stuck it out for 6 months and my confidence withered.

Eventually I moved on, to a large fashion retailer. Another incredible opportunity I had been given. I finally understood everything in the meetings; I was in a place to start giving suggestions and feeling like a cog within the team.

This is when I was introduced to office politics. I believed we were all a part of the same team; we all had the same goal