Take This Job and Love It: Keys to Surviving Your New Job

Produced

• 1993

Key Features

one 40 minute video (also available as a multimedia CD-ROM)

What do a positive attitude, adaptability, dependability, loyalty, and interpersonal skills have to do with each other? All are named by employers as the most important traits new employees can bring into their organizations—traits that are seldom taught in a school curriculum. While entry- level employees may feel that once they have been hired by an organization their worries are over, this exceptional video prepares them for the realities of the workplace.

Focusing on adapting to individual work environments, viewers visit a variety of employment situations and follow entry-level employees as they evaluate their new jobs and assess where they will fit into the organizations. Viewers learn how to decide the correct attire, how to address and deal with their new bosses, how much socializing is acceptable, how to learn correct office procedures, and what skills their supervisors expect them to have.

This entertaining video stresses the fact that when starting a new job, preparation for the expectations of bosses, supervisors, co-workers, clients, and customers often makes the difference between a smooth take-off and a crash landing.