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How to Handle It When You Feel Overwhelmed in a New Role
Overwhelm in a new job is rarely a sign you can't do the work. More often it's a sign you have been handed tasks faster than you have been handed context: no written process, three people assigning you things, and nobody telling you which one matters most. The fix is mechanical — list what's on your plate, get it ranked by the person who signs off your work, and renegotiate one deadline in writing.
Ingrid Castellanos · 9 min read
12 Habits That Help New Employees Thrive at Work
Starting a new job is less about talent than about the handful of routines you set up in your first few weeks. Gallup reported in 2021 that only 12% of U.S. employees say their company does a good job of onboarding, and only 29% of new hires feel fully prepared and supported to excel after it — which means most people have to build their own structure rather than wait for one to arrive.
Tobias Amarinde · 10 min read
What to Do When Your New Manager Gives You Almost No Feedback
A manager who says almost nothing in your first weeks isn't necessarily unhappy with you. More often the working relationship hasn't been set up yet: no recurring check-in, no agreed definition of "good", no shared list of what you own. The fix is usually a small, specific request you make yourself, within a week of noticing the gap.
Tobias Amarinde · 8 min read
9 Communication Habits Top Performers Use in Their First Year
Most of what gets you a reputation as a strong new hire in your first year is not talent. It is a short set of communication habits — reading a brief back before you start, batching your questions, flagging bad news early — repeated on a predictable schedule until people stop having to wonder what you are doing.
Desmond Okafor-Lee · 9 min read
The New Hire's Roadmap to Thriving in a Remote or Hybrid Job
Starting a job you can't walk into means nobody sees you struggling, and nobody sees you succeeding either. This roadmap gives you a checklist for the week before you start, hour-by-hour goals for day one and week one, measurable benchmarks a manager can verify at 30, 60 and 90 days, and word-for-word scripts for the conversations most new hires avoid.
Ingrid Castellanos · 10 min read
How to Handle It When a Coworker Takes Credit for Your Work
Someone presented your analysis, your deck or your fix as theirs, and you're new enough that nobody in the room knows whose it was. The useful response is not a confrontation — it's a short factual check, one direct conversation, and a change to how your work reaches your manager from now on.
Marguerite Dunlevy · 8 min read
First 90 Days in a New Job: What to Do Week by Week
The first 90 days in a job are mostly about three things: getting the administrative side done without chasing, learning who does what, and finishing something small that someone else can see. Everything else — reputation, interesting projects, influence — follows from those.
Desmond Okafor-Lee · 11 min read
Simple Daily Habits for Standing Out in a New Remote Job
Starting a remote job is mostly an information problem. Nobody sees you arrive, nobody overhears you solving something, and nobody notices you're stuck until a deadline slips. The habits below replace that lost visibility with a small number of written, scheduled actions you can start on day one and keep running through your first 90 days.
Ingrid Castellanos · 8 min read
The New Hire's Roadmap to Thriving on a Small Team or Startup
Joining a small team or a startup means there is often no onboarding coordinator, no training week, and no printed org chart. What there is instead: a manager who is also doing three other jobs, a product nobody has had time to document, and a seat waiting for someone who can work out what needs doing. This roadmap covers the paperwork to finish before day one, the specific things to accomplish in your first week, what to have shipped by day 30, 60 and 90, and the exact words to use in the conversations that are hardest to start.
Marguerite Dunlevy · 11 min read
Navigating a Mistake You Made in Your First Months on the Job
Everyone new gets something wrong. You don't yet know which approvals are real, who reads what before it goes out, or which small step the team treats as non-negotiable. The part you control is what happens in the hours and days after you notice — who hears it from you, how precisely you describe it, and what you change so it doesn't repeat.
Desmond Okafor-Lee · 8 min read
Your First 30/60/90 Days as a New Manager: A Complete Roadmap
Moving into a management job means two onboarding jobs at once: learning a new organisation, and learning how to get work done through other people. This roadmap gives you a pre-start checklist, concrete goals for your first day and first week, measurable benchmarks at 30, 60 and 90 days, and scripts you can say out loud in the conversations that come up most.
Priya Sehgal-Wren · 11 min read
7 Habits That Help You Build Trust Fast with a New Team
People decide whether you are reliable long before they decide whether you are talented. On a new team, that judgment is built from small, observable things: whether you remember what you were told, whether your deadlines hold, whether you check before changing something that already works.
Priya Sehgal-Wren · 8 min read