By hiring you, the employer assessed your professional and personal qualities. Behind all the worries and stress caused by the next interview, and now, finally, you can breathe a sigh of relief!
But you still shouldn’t relax completely, because the first impression is often deceptive, so during the trial period you must convince the employer that he made the right choice.
How to do this and avoid basic mistakes that can become a significant reason for an unpredictable dismissal? The answer is simple: by following the five secrets that are the key to successfully passing the probationary period. So.
Secret number 1. At The Start – Attention!
During the first month, your main assistance should be your own attention. Listen to the advice of employees, even if you are not going to follow them in the future, be attentive to the tasks that you are assigned, and do not hesitate to ask clarifying questions. Indeed, moderate curiosity indicates that you are interested in work and strive to get involved in the labor process as soon as possible, and attentiveness is regarded as the presence of motivation, and, therefore, focus on results!
Agree, that no one will keep an absent-minded employee at work, which many associates with a former loser, quietly sitting at the workplace, unintelligibly answering questions from colleagues, pretending to study work instructions.
Secret number 2. The Initiative Is Punishable?
The proverb that initiative is punishable is quite justified. But you should not hope that during the trial period your proposals will be encouraged, and even more so implemented, without knowing for sure that they will not bring losses to the company. On the contrary, without fully studying all the intricacies of the company’s business processes, ideas that seem brilliant to you can be perceived as hasty and unreasonable, and even worse – as absurd! Therefore, be careful with expressing your point of view, and before presenting the grandeur of your plans to the boss, consider how to properly present and argue them. And do not forget that initiative should be taken when it is expected of you, best of all – by the end of the probationary period, so that it does not turn out to be punishable by dismissal.
Secret number 3. Don’t Look For A Protégé
Often, attempts to stay at work are reinforced by the search for a protégé in the role of the first employee who has shown friendliness towards. After all, you hope that he will put in a good word for you in front of the leadership, when, after the probationary period, a decision will be made on your candidacy. But the first impression of a person can be deceiving. First, over a fairly short trial period, one can hardly be sure that positive feedback from a patron colleague will really play a decisive role. Secondly, during a sincere conversation, expressing your revelations to him, not in favor of work, you cannot be sure that the conversation will not go beyond your friendship. Therefore, do not rush to make friends, and even more so do not perceive them as a protégé.
Secret number 4. Observe Business Etiquette
No one has canceled the rules of good manners, on the contrary, during the trial period you should strictly adhere to the ethics of business communication, despite the fact that situations at work are different. If an employee makes an undeserved remark to you, you should not ignore it, but you also don’t need to show irritability. Try to defend your point of view in a tactful manner, substantiating it. After all, even if the ill-wisher occupies the lowest position, it may turn out that this person is a relative of the boss, and then any arguments in her defense will be futile.
Secret number 5. Find The Golden Mean
Remember that during the probationary period, not only your competence is tested, which, of course, you need to demonstrate and prove, but also your personal qualities. It is not scary if at first, you make mistakes in your work while wanting to correct them and improve your skills. After all, if you manage to prove your professionalism, but cannot adapt to a team, a fiasco, alas, cannot be avoided. And exactly the opposite: if all efforts are made to build relationships between employees, neglecting official duties, the probationary period will also end in dismissal.
By avoiding the main mistakes during the probationary period, you can find a happy medium where professional and personal qualities will be harmoniously combined, and then the path to a successful career will not be thorny.
