From the movie Intern, how can we become a newcomer in the workplace?

Intern is a comedy released by Warner Bros., directed by nancy meyers and co-starring Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro. The film was released in the United States on September 25, 20 15. The film tells the story of Ben Whitcott returning to the workplace after retirement and becoming an intern at a fashion website founded by Jules Austin.

Although the film is called Intern, it is not strictly a story about how a group of young interns enter the workplace. The so-called "intern" is actually a "senior intern" project implemented by an Internet startup company. This project is to recruit several older interns (over 65 years old), and the purpose should be to balance the state that the company is all young people. So the intern played by the leading actor in the film is actually a 70-year-old grandfather.

Although it is not the so-called career promotion, the film does illustrate how a newcomer should quickly integrate into the team and fully express himself.

The first thing for newcomers in the workplace is to get on well with team members. After working hard in traditional manufacturing for more than 40 years, 70-year-old Mr. Ben joined a trendy female e-commerce company as an intern. The span is unimaginable, so at first he didn't know what he could do, and even the Mac computer wouldn't turn on. At first, the boss Jules thought the senior intern program was a joke, and he didn't know what kind of work to arrange for Ben.

Although I didn't know exactly what a female e-commerce company did at first, after decades of hard work, she knew a lot of workplace truths, so even if she was unfamiliar with the company's business, it didn't prevent her from integrating into the team. Colleagues around him are nearly 50 years younger than him, but he treats people sincerely, such as instructing a young colleague who quarrels with his girlfriend how to win back his girlfriend's heart, providing accommodation for an intern who was kicked out of the house, helping a slow engineer change his image, and helping a stressed boss assistant to finish his work properly. , soon became the "red man" of the whole company.

Because 70-year-old Ben has rich experience in the workplace, he can help these colleagues with ease, but he may not be able to do so for newcomers, but it is not difficult to understand why he can quickly integrate into the team. Many times you don't need to answer people's questions like the plot in the movie. You just need to show your sincerity, not close yourself, or even feel out of place with the environment. I'm sure you can fit into this team soon.

Newcomers in the workplace should learn to start with small things. Although Ben was a VP before he retired, he was only an intern in the new company, and his past work experience was useless in the new environment. Besides, he doesn't know how the company works or what the boss expects of him, so he starts with very small things. For example, I send clothes to the dry cleaners for the female boss, clean the desk full of sundries in the middle of the office, drive the car for the female boss every day, buy food, and even send my daughter to kindergarten.

Newcomers in the workplace are generally not arranged for very important things, because your experience is not enough and your ability has not been recognized, so it is impossible for you to undertake important projects, otherwise there will be greater risks, so it is actually reasonable to arrange you to do some simple, basic and trivial things. However, some people will be arrogant and instinctively feel that they are doing odd jobs, so that they think that they are not valued, feel wronged, and even begin to resist. In fact, if everyone really works until retirement, he may have to work for at least 30 years. Doing small things when you first enter the workplace is not only delaying your career. It is important to show his ability from these basic things and let his superiors find it.

Take the plot in the movie as an example. The desk full of sundries in the middle of the office has never been cleaned, and the female boss will nag a few words every day when she passes by, but no one cares. Only Ben got up early and cleaned it thoroughly. When driving for a female boss, she is always punctual, and knows the most convenient route, even stable enough to let the boss take a nap in the car, and don't forget to buy a soup for the boss who didn't eat. It's just that simply finishing small things and perfecting small things are different concepts.

Newcomers in the workplace should be good at seizing opportunities and working actively. If you only work hard and passively, if you are only satisfied with the assigned work, you certainly have no chance of being found. In fact, when Ben was assigned to the female boss for an internship at first, the female boss said that he would arrange a job for him by email, but Ben checked the email for several days and didn't see the boss's email. So he began to pay attention to the boss's itinerary. By chance, he found that the boss's driver was not in the state at work, and even stole a drink. Out of concern for the personal safety of the boss, he asked the driver to take the initiative to explain the situation to the boss, and later he officially became the boss's car driver.

In fact, cleaning up office garbage mentioned above is also a sign of seizing the opportunity to win the favor of the boss. This kind of work is not assigned by the superior, but it needs a discerning eye. For what you have the ability to do well, you should seize the opportunity to do well. Any team will like proactive people.

Being good at seizing opportunities means doing the work assigned to you well on the premise of doing your own job, and then seeing what kind of team work you can undertake or helping your superiors solve headaches, instead of thinking about expressing yourself before doing the work at hand. This is putting the cart before the horse.

Newcomers in the workplace should keep learning. Today, with the rapid development of knowledge, it is the general trend to study every day and lifelong. The quickest way is to learn at work and learn from colleagues and peers. Ben is 70 years old, and the female e-commerce website is completely strange to him. Many things done by colleagues around him, articles used, work habits and company culture are also brand new to him. But he didn't flinch. He didn't feel old and behind the times. On the contrary, he studies hard to make himself qualified for his position.

Ben also learned to expand his previous work experience to a new position. For example, he used to be responsible for the sales of paper phone books, and women's e-commerce selling women's clothes is essentially sales. He took the initiative to learn the relevant content, analyzed the data and came to the conclusion that the company invested a lot of advertising fees in the limited growth market. Because of this move, he once again won the appreciation of his boss and began to help his assistant get in touch with more core businesses.

The knowledge learned in school may not be directly applied to work, and new industry knowledge, tools and skills need to be mastered are emerging one after another. If you stop studying, you will always be a new person. No matter how experienced people are, if they stop learning, they will gradually be eliminated.

Newcomers in the workplace should be brave enough to solve problems. Being good at seizing opportunities means taking the initiative to attack things with full confidence and ability, while being brave in solving problems means being brave in challenging jobs with certain difficulties. This kind of work is not necessarily what you asked for on your own initiative, but it may be a problem arranged by the boss. Bosses usually don't deliberately embarrass a new person. In this case, try not to back down and do your best.

The female boss sent an email to his mother by mistake because she was in a hurry. In order not to let her see it after work, she arranged for Ben and three other people to try to delete the email. Ben led the team into the boss's mother's house, found the notebook, deleted the mail, and fled the scene when the police caught up. Of course, this is a comedy plot in the movie, but the moral is to dare to help superiors solve problems.

Self-confidence and timidity are two extremes. Being able to find a job with certain difficulty is a kind of trust. If you choose to escape at any time instead of looking for a solution, this trust will gradually disappear. In the long run, you can only do very simple basic work.

Newcomers in the workplace should know the rules. This is a very easily overlooked aspect. The workplace is different from school. Every enterprise has a distinct culture, every team has a unique atmosphere, and every superior has his own habits. As a newcomer to the workplace, if you don't understand this, you will easily run into difficulties. Knowing the rules is not to learn the world, but to make yourself more decent in the workplace.

He knows the rules of the workplace very well. When he first joined the company, he asked the boss's assistant what to pay attention to when talking to the boss, and the answers were "blinking", "punctual" and "concise". After talking with the boss, he asked her if she should close the office door. He went to pick up his boss from work, knowing that he would ring the doorbell and leave, and he paid special attention to his privacy and maintained his image in public.

There is an interesting story. There is no one in the office at night. His colleague asked him why he hadn't left yet. His answer is that he can't leave before the boss. Such an idea may not be accepted by the younger generation in today's workplace, but it is his experience for more than 40 years and it seems to him to be a natural office rule. It is he who understands these rules that we think are "hidden rules" so that he can achieve the position of VP in his previous professional experience and become a trusted friend of the boss in a short time in a new strange working environment.

In a word, a movie is a movie after all, and all the plot settings and characters' relationships are designed to satisfy the audience's emotions, but the workplace truth reflected behind the story is worth learning.

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