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Are you destined for success in your first job? Let's consider what you might do during your first week on the job. Take the following quiz and find out whether you're destined to move up the corporate ladder or down to the unemployment line.

Monday will be your first day on the job. The office is a thirty minute drive into downtown and you're not sure how bad rush hour traffic will be or where you'll find a parking place. Do you . . .

    Call the office to find out the best place to park and then get up early on Friday and drive the route as though it were your first day of work?
    Leave home fifteen minutes early?
    Check out public transportation and decide to take the bus that's scheduled to stop in front of the office five minutes before you have to be there?
    not worry about it. You really have no control over the traffic. If you're late, you probably won't be the only one.

You're at your desk and really bored because you have nothing to do. Do you . . .

    approach your supervisor and ask for additional work?
    read the company literature and employee manual?
    telephone a friend and 'look' busy?
    play computer games like some of the other workers you've seen?

Some of your new co-workers take you out to lunch. The lunch hour is almost over and no one appears to be making a move to get back to the office. Do you . . .

    thank them for lunch, excuse yourself, and go back to the office?
    tell them you have a project to finish and have to get back, then head for the office?
    ask them whether you shouldn't head back and stay when they chide you for being so punctual?
    decide not to worry about it. If they're not rushing to get back, it must be okay to take an extended lunch.

Your boss asks you to take a look at a new project and make suggestions for improvement. In reviewing the project, you find many errors and in general think the work was quite poor. Do you . . .

    take the initiative to make necessary corrections and submit your revised copy to your boss?
    tactfully suggest to your boss some corrections that might improve the project and enhance its appeal?
    use red ink to point out the errors to your boss and co-workers so they know that you know what you're doing?
    tell the boss that this project really stinks and let him know that you would never submit something of such poor quality to him?

Let's total your scores and see how you did. To score your quiz, give yourself the following points for each answer:

A = 1 point
B = 2 points
C = 3 points
D = 4 points

 

 

   
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