Here’s how you can sail through your probationary period

Probationary period is the acid test of your caliber. Whatever promised in the interview, it’s a time to showcase them. Your boss or manager keeps an eye over each and every work done by you and analyzes them. As such, at times, it feels bit pessimistic and you have an air of doubts about how to perform during this specific period of probation.

 

Referring the tips given by the field experts, here is the short listing of the tips you can follow:

 

1. Be Initiative: People get impressed when you take a positive approach at work and be initiative. Taking initiative shows your interest to take the ownership. An organization expects people who behave like owners of their job. So, taking initiative is a good step you can follow during your probation.
2. Behave like a professional: It is very important to understand what is it to be like a professional. Right from presenting yourself to maintaining time discipline, you can’t go wrong here. After-all, people come to the organization to for a specific business objective. So, as a motivated employee, you need to show your professionalism in everything you do at work.
3. Proper handling of office gossips: Gossips are interesting, but wait, your boss could easily have a negative impression on you just on the basis of kind of gossips you are involved in. Be very careful that you don’t pass any easy comments and involve in anything that kills your work spirit.
4. Following the language grammar and communicating effectively: Well, you must have heard of this point almost in each and every self-help tip. It is because of the major impact it carries. The way you present yourself is dominated by the way you speak and express. Speaking a sentence with grammatical errors or fumbling with the words naturally doesn’t look effective. So, make sure that you communicate right and effectively.
5. Writing good emails: The email is the stored information that can retraced whenever needed as on basis. So, it is very important to make sure that you write a good email. Using un-understandable short forms or making use of informal notations doesn’t seem effective at work.
6. Being Ethical: Well, ethics is a big word covering many other aspects in its umbrella such as honesty, integrity, responsibility, time-discipline and few others. But, to present it easily, all you should have is a strong character on which basis you are looked at.

 

With these little tips, the team HEP wishes you a good luck for your probation.