1) Getting job is not end: Once you get a job in a company, you should not fly that you achieved something in life (although getting job is achievement, treat it as small), your actual life started only when you join the first job. Once you join job, you have to start studying to survive in your career life.

2) Type of job: Do not expect the job to be interesting; most of the time it may not be so. If you are happy with the current type of work you are doing, by knowing your limitations, then focus on learning more in the same area. If you think you have more knowledge compared to the current work, you need to ask for a change in a company. If you don’t get it, just change the company. You need to remember that you should learn more, explore more to contribute to the growth of the company in the future. If you limit yourself by doing a job which doesn’t satisfy your hunger for knowledge, it is sin. Go for a change.

3) Interact with colleagues: Once you join a company, do not sit in a corner and think that all the people in the company are intelligent. You should interact with all the people around you and you should try to know them. As you interact more with them, you will have the idea how much a person knows about technology. If someone is good in technology, study more and discuss more with them. The more you discuss technology with colleagues, the more you will learn. Prepare a list of intelligent and dumb people and keep better relationship only if they are good at what they are doing.

4) Do not treat someone as superior: Do not treat any of your colleagues as superior to you. They are playing their role as an experienced person, and you are playing the role as a fresher. After sometime, you will be in that person’s level. Have respect for each person for playing their respective role and learn from each person.

5) Talk, Talk: If you think that just knowing technology will help you to grow, forget it. Once you have knowledge, you should also know how to express it to people. That’s where people will know your value. Anything you do, try to explain to people, what you did and try to justify with more examples and convince them. If you think people will respect you, if you are simply silent (not talking at all), you are utterly wrong. At the same time, if you talk more than what you know, you will end up in failure and land in unnecessary problems.

6) Have more plans for further learning: Once you join a job, you have to continue studying about technologies based on your interests. If you didn’t have an inclination towards study during college time, do not worry about it. During college life, you didn’t never liked a subject b’cos your lecturer was not explaining things properly and not because you didn’t like the subject. So to increase your interests, you just need to search likeminded people who like to study similar subjects and team with them and spend more of your free time in reading and experimenting in computer. You just need to cultivate the reading habit. Initially you might find it difficult but I can bet, you can handle it easily, once you have more people to talk about the same subject. Doesn’t matter in which team you are in; if you want to grow successful, you must study. If you stop studying and gaining knowledge thru books and experimentation practically, prepare for lots of problems in your career life. This you will realize only after many years.

7) Show interests to learn always and don’t be only after money: As a fresher, you must concentrate on increasing your technical skills. If you are just behind money, I can challenge you, you cannot earn more than your pocket money. But, as you increase your knowledge and as you contribute to the company’s growth, you are going to get money automatically. Even after doing good work in a company, if you think you are not getting enough money, just ask the boss. If that doesn’t work and if you think you have more capability, you can change the job but don’t be underpaid at any cost. If you are underpaid, you will be always thinking of money and not knowledge and you will also learn to crib (borrow/cheat). Instead ask for money whatever you think it is worth and just concentrate on knowledge further. Goal is to think more about learning not money. Expect money to follow you and you follow the knowledge.  

8) Take initiative: With fresh energy, you have to take more initiatives in learning more about the subject you like and try to build a technical network inside the company, as well as outside the company. This very much helps to increase your knowledge and confidence. Do not restrict yourself to be known within the company for your knowledge. If you want to keep yourself updated about the industry, you need to interact with outside people who are in your own domain (interests).

9) Share knowledge: Whatever you learn, you must have an inclination towards sharing. If you don’t share, never ever expect yourself to learn more in future.  You will become another dumb. The More you share, the more your knowledge multiplies. It will help you to understand the topic better. More questions you answer to people, you will have the advantage in knowing the subject better. Take initiative to help others. Don’t wait for your boss to say it to you. If you wait, you are the looser and you will realize this only later.

10)Designation is not important: Designation is not important, do not value it personally. What kind of role you play in the company is most important. If you have knowledge, you can get any designation you want in the future. The designation is used just to show off outside the company and this doesn’t add much value to your growth. Avoid show off, unless you are really capable in playing that role. Unfortunately most of the company says, designation is not important but when it comes to showing off power among colleagues, they use it. But, this kind doesn’t work for long, it is only temporary. Use your skills as a tool to grow. The desired designation, you can get either in the current company or in the next company.

11)Don’t worry about politics: People worry about this most of the time as they grow. As long as you have knowledge to do the job, you don’t need to worry. No politics will work against you. Even if it works, it is only temporary. Ultimate win is yours. If you don’t get justice for the work you do due to politics, try to talk to people in the current company OR change the job.  

12)Work for a company not for Manager: Most % of the people leave the job because of bad manager, but they still like company. This happens due to the hidden games played by the manager, and they are not transparent. Best option is, “work for the company”. If you think, what you know is best in the interests of company, justify it to your manager and to the people around you and try to implement it. Each and every person in the company is learning including your manager. So try to speak out openly and try to know what he thinks about particular topic. The More feedback you give, the better it is for all -you, your manager and your company as a whole. If nobody gives any feedback to the company, you can assume that company is losing time. After trying several times to convince your manager, if you think nothing is being implemented, change the team if you think there is another manager in the company who listens OR else change the company.

13)Manage your fears: Each and everyone who is working has fears about their job. As you get more experience you have to reduce this fear by increasing the knowledge (This is the only way available), even if you make more money, fear might not go. Nobody can steal your knowledge, but people can steal your money. Talk fearlessly with people around you, there are no reasons to have fear if you are doing your job properly. If you have more fear even after working for many years either you didn’t acquire knowledge or you mind is lying to you.

14)Don’t doubt yourself: Verifying yourself what you know is always good. But, you should not blindly doubt all the time. Be confident and try to think carefully what mistakes you have made. If you have really done a mistake, try to correct it. Just ignore it if it is not a mistake.