Your First Week Checklist ✅

The goal of week one is not to prove yourself. It’s to learn the landscape.

• Learn everyone’s name on your immediate team (write them down)
• Find out who to ask for what (technical questions? HR? IT? admin?)
• Get access to all the tools you need (Slack/Teams, GitHub, Jira, VPN, shared drives, etc.)
• Read the onboarding docs — even the boring ones
• Ask your manager: “What does a successful first month look like for me?”
• Ask your manager: “How do you prefer I communicate — chat, email, or booked meetings?”
• Ask about working hours, break norms, and dress code (yes, ask)
• Set up recurring 1:1s with your manager (weekly or fortnightly)
• Start a personal notes doc — you’ll forget things, and that’s fine

🎯 Winning move: By end of week 1, send your manager a short “here’s what I’ve learned so far + here’s what I’m working on next” message. It shows initiative without needing you to have delivered anything yet.

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