{"id":1080,"date":"2006-12-21T13:08:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T13:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/21\/a-new-job-isnt-combat\/"},"modified":"2006-12-21T13:08:47","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T13:08:47","slug":"a-new-job-isnt-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/21\/a-new-job-isnt-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Job isn&#8217;t combat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting a first job or even just beginning a new one can be very daunting and is frequently unsettling. You often won&#8217;t know the layout of the location where you&#8217;ll be working, you probably won&#8217;t know any of the people you&#8217;ll be working with and you almost certainly will not be familiar with the company&#8217;s work ethics, house styles, and general quirks, which go to individualize any organization.<\/p>\n<p>So what can you do to make life easier for yourself, especially during those first crucial few weeks when you&#8217;re trying to make a lasting, but good impression, so your new employer doesn&#8217;t rue the day they first clapped eyes on you?<\/p>\n<p>Well you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcs.org\/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.8505\">this BCS Article<\/a> for students which gives you some good advice on starting your first or even new job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting a first job or even just beginning a new one can be very daunting and is frequently unsettling. You often won&#8217;t know the layout of the location where you&#8217;ll be working, you probably won&#8217;t know any of the people you&#8217;ll be working with and you almost certainly will not be familiar with the company&#8217;s work ethics, house styles, and<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/21\/a-new-job-isnt-combat\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A New Job isn&#8217;t combat!&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}