4 taboos Singaporeans should avoid once hired

You have gone through 3 rounds of rigorous interviews and a series of personality and job fit assessments to successfully land yourself the job you had wanted.

As a new hire, you wouldn’t want to jeopardise your career by doing the following things.

• Spending too much time on social media

In today context, almost everyone is connected to social media and it has become something indispensable in our daily life. Undoubtedly, it has proven to be a very effective medium in sharing your thoughts or views to a large community within a short frame of time.

Most companies do not restrict their staff from using social media to connect with friends, family or just to update their daily happenings.

But it will become a concern if a new hire is spending a great deal of time on Facebook or Twitter.

Imagine when your superior walks past your cubicle and instead of spotting you focusing at work, you are focusing at updating your ‘selfies’ or what you had for lunch on Facebook.

This for sure doesn’t bode well with your boss whom naturally would expect you to be at your best behaviour to earn that confirmation at soonest possible.

• Keeping too much to yourself

You walk into the office in the morning quietly without greeting your colleagues. You spend pretty much of your time at your cubicle doing your stuff, rarely communicating with fellow colleagues to bond or better integrate into a new environment.

When your colleagues ask you to join them for lunch, you are always lamenting that you are meeting friends or packing lunch back.

During meetings, you are always busy fidgeting with your smart phone without paying much attention or contributing ideas

• Be overly sociable

As you attempt to be quickly accepted or liked by your new colleagues, you tend to be ‘overly sociable’ with them. Every now and then you tend to make small chats or joke with the people seated around you.

You openly sharewith them that awesome outing you had last evening or what you intend to do after office hours while your colleagues are working hard to hit their sales KPI or hand up that urgent report to the boss.

You also frequently invite your new colleagues for karaoke sessions or movies even on weekends while your colleagues may just wish to spend some time with their family members.

• Acting like a prima donna

You have just joined your new company as an experienced person bringing along a wealth of expertise and knowledge.

When you are asked to perform some roles or tasks that may not have mentioned during the interview, you resisted and not willing to do something beyond what have been communicated earlier.

Whenever you are required to perform “OT” to complete some urgent tasks, you always come up with reasons that you cannot stay after office hours.

You believed that you are more ‘superior’ in a way than your colleagues and attempt to cultivate some actions that may not be the company’s normal practice or culture and slowly you will be recognised as the obnoxious person to work with.