Get Ahead in Your New Job: How to Make an Impact in the First 100 Days

Get Ahead in Your New Job: How to make an impact in the first 100 days is a must-have practical guide to help you establish yourself quickly and effectively in a new role, whatever your level in an organisation. In the first 100 days of a new job you have a unique opportunity to shape your work reputation and re-position your career. Your ability to read performance expectations, management culture and how quickly you need to climb the learning curve makes a difference to your career future. Drawing on his work as one of the UK's best-known career strategists, John Lees shows you how to hit the ground running and avoid classic mistakes. - Negotiate your new role like a pro, gaining clarity about job content and employer expectations. - Identify the key mistakes new starters make in reputation management and performance. - Understand how your initial impact shapes your long-term career prospects. - Learn how to manage key relationships with decision makers. - Anticipate career traps and learn how to avoid or manage them. - Learn how to 'map' your new organisation to identify key resources, trends and people. - Develop strategies for building on your first 100 days as part of your long-term career planning. By the end of this book, you will be better equipped to make an impact in your new job, build key relationships and add significantly to your CV.

John Lees has been involved in the training and developing of recruitment specialists since the mid 1980s, from both public and private sectors. He undertook an advisory role to the RN careers service, and has provided help for Army personnel beginning civilian careers. He was Chief Executive of the Institute of Employment Consultants (IEC) until 1993 when he left to become a Director of TGA, an employment research and careers advisory company. In 1999 he decided to go it alone and now runs his own human resources consultancy, specialising in career management and developing new tools to help with difficult career change decisions. John writes and speaks widely, and amongst his regular commitments acts as an online careers "guru" for lifebyte.com. John is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (FCIPD) and Fellow of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (FREC).

PART 1 The first 100 days 1 Taking a new job for the right reasons 2 Getting a grip on your new role 3 Initial impact 4 The organisation and you 5 Mapping the organisation 6 Quick wins and slow burns 7 Managing key relationships 8 Road blocks - difficult situations and people 9 How work reputations are built and shaken PART 2 Beyond the first 100 days 10 Reinventing yourself 11 Career traps 12 Surviving, thriving, and negotiating change 13 Review, build, and know when it's time to move on