So, you just landed yourself a new job and you are probably nervous, because you want to impress your employer. Well, you are not the first person to feel like this because everyone feels nervous the first time they step into the professional waters.

Starting a new job is a nerve wracking experience. It might cause much anxiety because you really want this job, and you cannot afford to be thrown out in the first week. Besides, you have a lot of expectations from your employer and colleagues. You expect them to be everything that they were during the interviews.

This leads a lot of new hires to make serious mistakes which maybe bad, both, for the company and the employee. The employers may not have enough time or patience to endure your mistakes.

Following are some of the common mistakes new employees make:

1. Shabbily Dressing:

The one thing most people fail to understand is that some people have very strong observation skills. The first thing that people notice about you is your dress. The minute you walk into the office, your colleagues will scan you, observe you and will form an instant analysis of you. So, if you want to make a lasting impression on your colleagues, make sure you are dressed properly, as per the office decorum.

2. Expecting Too Much:

When you get hired, your boss might guide you by giving you all the details about the job. He might even assign you to one of your colleagues so you may learn what you are expected to do. But, if you think that your boss will hold your hand, and guide you about each and everything, or he will protect you every time you run into trouble, then you are wrong. Your boss hired you so you may help him with his problems, not the other way round. So, stop acting like a child, and be the responsible man you are expected to be.

3. Never Asking Questions:

Your first few days or weeks at the job are sort like a learning tenure. Throughout, your probation period, you are expected to ask as many questions as you like as long as you are learning something out of it.

However, don’t bother your colleagues too much by asking loads of irrelevant questions or by asking the same questions over and over. You don’t want your colleagues to think of you as an annoying person.

4. Less Socializing:

The literal meaning of an organization is that of a group of people who work together for a particular purpose. You cannot run an organization if you will not talk to your colleagues.

I have come across new hires, who are too shy or too proud to talk to others. Not talking to your colleagues is a source of conflicts in organizations, which may jeopardize your job.

5. Not Adapting Office Culture:

One of the most common and annoying things about new hires is that they want to compare everything with what they learned at college. New hires like to give advices to their new colleagues based on what used to be the norm in their college.

If you want to fit in the office, you will have to accept and adapt to the environment of your new office. You will find a lot of things that maybe different, but then every organization has a different culture.

6. Networking Too Early:

A few days at office is too soon, do not add your new colleagues on social network websites just now. You and your colleagues need time to get to know each other before you send them invitations on LinkedIn. If you send an invitation too soon, and let your colleagues look at your personal profile, they might form an opinion about you.

First impressions is the last, always remember that. Therefore, make your first impression in a way that can boost and bolster your career success. In addition, don’t wait for anyone to spoon fed you because if you do so you will only be delaying your career growth. If you want to build a sound career, then you have to avoid the above mistakes.

Madeleine Allan is a passionate research writer and a student consultant. She guides students in choosing the right degree program in order to start a good career. Besides being a consultant, she is also an essay writer at Essay Spot.