在打开新的职场大门之前，尽自己的努力增加对新部门的认识，有利于提升你的自信，头脑中形成一个明确的框架，还会减少自己因一无所知所走的弯路。
你可以这样搜集信息：
在选择性的面试之前研究自己的职责；
面试所获得的知识信息；
在入职以后，老板可以提供一些更深入熟悉的材料，比如产品和服务的特性。同时你也可以自己通过程序，技术和系统来加深印象。自己找到的阅读材料或老板能提供的一些经验都很有用。
仔细审视一下自身优势，这次能否通过不同的办法将工作干得更出色而且避免自己以前的不足，比如安排时间可以更有效了，跟同事能更融洽相处了，让自己的潜能得到更大的发挥了。
如果在工作开始之前跟朋友，导师，顾问聊聊这些话题，可以增强自己解决问题和制定策略的能力。
第一个问题
迈入新办公室的第一天前，以老板的角色来考虑考虑你的职业形象，着妆打扮，生活方式和职业态度。假如你反其道而行之，那后果可想而知。
工作开始以后，要努力认清：
组织结构；
组织人员；
工作和他人的关系；
交际：包括与上司，下属和其他人的交往；部门之间互相配合，比如跟人事部之间；
建立交际网：通过口头交流，便签，邮件，会议等；
文字或口头程序和规则的执行，比如有关健康，福利和歧视政策等；
公司是否取得ISO 9000国际质量认证体系和相关的质量鉴定认可；
公司的地理环境；
企业的历史文化；
假如你没有工作职位描述，向主管要一份，然后你就可以对自己的工作范围有个清清楚楚的了解了。不要只是确定自己至少要完成的工作标准而是要最大限度的发挥自己的潜力。花一个月去了解这些是比较理想的，问题得到解决总比还是一笼统要好，六个月才了解就显得有点长了。
应该找到：
领导的局限；
工作的特性和主要目标；
上司和同事的愿景；
老板的反馈；
工作局限，比如：人际关系，产品，服务等等；
工作与其他系统的相互配合；
拥有的资源；
工作的特点和应该分配给每个人的时间；
工作的主要问题和特征；
应该做的事：
多听；
谦虚；
运用技巧和谋略；
干实事；
不应该做的：
不停的谈论以前是如何如何做的；
评论你的以前的现在的同事和老板；
在确定你的偶像之前不要加入小团伙或是老往里面扔钱；
Settling into a New Role
Before you commence your new employment, do all you can to increase your awareness of the new organisation. It will boost your confidence, give you a positive frame of mind and reduce the steepness of the learning curve when you do begin.
Build up your information resources from:
Research which you undertook before the selection interview.
Knowledge gained at interview.
Any further familiarisation, which your new employer can provide after you have accepted the offer: for example, literature on products and services, visits to familiarise yourself with procedures, technology, systems, etc.
Any reading or experience which you or your existing employer can arrange.
Reviewing your self-assessment profile. What could you do differently this time around to build a stronger career and avoid some of the weaknesses of your past, eg to delegate or meet deadlines more effectively, relate better to colleagues, maximise your potential, etc? You may find it helpful to strengthen your resolve and formulate some strategies here by talking these issues through in advance with a friend, mentor, counsellor, etc.
Initial Issues
Before going in on the first day, consider what 'image' the employer feels is appropriate to your job - appearance, clothes, life-style, attitudes. If you deviate from these, know what you are doing.
Soon after starting, try to establish:
The organisational structure.
'Who's who' - formally and informally.
The relationship of your job to others.
Communications: up, down and sideways; 'dotted lines', support services available - eg, personnel department.
Preferred communication networks: word of mouth, memos, E-mail, committees, etc.
What sort of procedures or rules operate - written or oral - eg concerning health and welfare, discrimination, etc.
Whether the organisation has received BS EN ISO 9000 status or a similar quality accreditation.
The geography of the organisation.
The history of the enterprise.
Settling into a New Role
If you do not already have a job description, ask for one, and then try to define as clearly as you can the boundaries of your job. You are not seeking to establish the minimum acceptable benchmarks, but frontiers within which you can make your best contribution. Do this constructively and as soon as you can. The first month is ideal. Six months later is too late; your questions will be interpreted rather less generously.
Find out:
The limits of your authority.
The parameters and main objectives of your job.
The expectations of your superiors and colleagues.
The kind of feedback you will receive from superiors.
The limits of your responsibilities - personnel, products, services etc.
The way your job meshes into any quality system in use.
The resources you will have.
The priorities in the job and the proportion of your time you should be giving to each.
The main problem areas and the 'uniqueness' of the job.
Do start by:
Listening a great deal.
Being modest.
Exercising tact and diplomacy.
Being a 'Day One' performer.
Don't start by:
Constantly saying how you used to do it in your last job.
Criticising your new, or former, employers or colleagues.
Joining a clique or hitching your wagon to a star before you're sure you've got the right one!
职场贴士：消除“星期一综合症”，要做到在双休日尽可能过得轻松愉快，不要与平时出现过大的反差，更要避免出现双休日过度疲劳的状态
