Finally, you’ve landed a job!
Everything went well in the interview. The agency was impressed with your past experience, your credentials and your background. But is that the end?
Those who are successful at agencies are quick to learn that the interview is just the first impression. The starting point that got you through the door. But how to stay there, survive and even thrive at agencies will depend less on what you have done in the past or what you say and more to what you do.
Because of this, you must always remember that it is not enough to want to do this and that, or talk about growing and improving or wax lyrical about “when I get promoted”. Action matters.
If you want to be the top dog, you need to act like the top dog. You need to get results. You need to prove your worth and get beyond the first impression and build lasting impressions.
Talk will get you only so far, and talk without the backing of action is just talk.
In the words of Master Yoda “It’s do, or do not.”
Filed under: 2. The First Years, 3. Going Up
