How to Survive Your First Day at A Corporate Job.

First job can turn into million kinds of experiences considering its you FIRST TIME. The outcome of your first job can either make you fall in love with the idea of working in a corporate job or can completely ruin the same. Let's have a look at how to survive the first week of your first corporate job.

1. Make yourself comfortable to the office environment.

It can be daunting to enter an office and find tens and hundreds of people invested in their computer screen, chit-chatting with each-others, isolated in the cabins to consume zero disturbance, etc etc. If there is no one to escort you on your first day, and you have to find your way to the HR office - you could easily break the sweat.

Hence, it is important to have a know about what to expect when you first enter the office. Turning heads, greeting handshakes, random smiles and x-ray type stare down is what you can easily expect after entering the office for the first time.

My Experience -

My first time in the office was when it was empty from the post pandemic effects. I was there to collect my hardware and only met the HR team and some senior management. It was a quite experience to say! Dressed in a complete formal attire I was feeling odd-man-out as soon as I entered the office. Everyone was wearing casuals, there offered me tea, gave me high-fives and laughed and questioned and laughed more. This was enough for me to understand the vibe of the people that I was going to work with.

2. Introduce yourself to everyone.

You got to move to burn the fat. Until and unless you don't take the first step, you are most likely to remain in a bubble. Hence whenever you start a new job, make the move and introduce yourself to the people. Sure you won't be talking to all the human resource available in the office but you can start by introducing yourself to the team you are made a part of. In case if you are not a part of any team yet, introduce to the person sitting nearest to you. This will help you break the ice and also gain vital informations about how the people are in that particular organisation and what to expect from each one of them.

Introducing yourself will certainly land a new office friend for you. I mean no one will be your friend on the first day on whom you can count on, but certainly you will find a colleague who you can count on for any small big help.

My experience -

My first day was an incredible experience of meeting new and serious people. By serious I don't mean people who don't laugh or who confined to their cubical and doesn't utter a word! But by serious I mean that I was straight out of uni and at uni I was surrounded mostly by the people who treated uni as place to vacation. On my first day I met people who worked to earn and had a goal and a plan to achieve that goal. Anyways, I started with introducing myself from the word GO. Starting from the security sitting at the entrance to the person responsible for the office pantry.

3. Observe, observe and observe.

Here's a tip of the life to succeed in any field you are working in - OBSERVE! Yes the more you observe, the more you perceive things and the more you perceive things - the more you develop your 'KNOW'. Any office at any given time have numerous things that you can observe. Literally from the floor to ceiling, from the rooms to the cubicles, from the decorative plants to the living being - everything can be observed to know more about them. Observing how the people behave around other people or around certain people can teach you an important skill of survival in the corporate world. Although there's lot you can observe besides the above mentioned things, but for the first day this much observation is enough.

My experience -

I have personally relied a lot on my obersvaetional skills throughout my adult life. Although it's a difficult skill to master, the rewards of learning this skill are immeasurable. During my first day at my office, my only motive was to observe and know as many things as I can in that whole 9hrs. I observed humans to pathways, the slangs to nick names and the most important the do's and the dont's. All of this can easily be accessible by mere asking as well, but things like people's space, their limitations, their reactions can only be observed.