- Get to know your new colleagues right away. Identify the team-players, the mentors and the opinion leaders amongst your new collagues.

- Develop a personal relationship with your boss in the first month. Discuss with him any problems you may have as soon as possible.

- Prove that you can contribute usefully to the company’s work.

- Try to build up a network of contacts in which you occupy a key position.

- Try and look well-informed.

- Be balanced and unassuming, try to seem poised and ready for action.

- Set yourself long-term goals. Assume that you will remain at the same company for years.