yaa.. i already reached office. oO reporting myself to no one.
tired... a lot of things to do.. >.< but i don't know what I did.
Intro, hi,... i'm ..... nice to meet u... to almost whole office.
everyone is nice..

I read up some of the post during at office, hardly reply cuz focusing work. but is really nice, n sweet that u guys so concern.. the funniest is rmb to bring urself. that really make me back live when i'm so tired. thanks a lot guys..

APIIT students eh? There's a reason why dress code in APIIT was made to be formal, and that is to prepare you for the industry. Being in the professional career, one needs to present himself in a professional manner. (APIIT senior speaking here, but don't worry, I was many many years above you. Somewhere in the class of '02)

Anyway, congrats on your first day at work.

For the next days, you need to clarify the following:

- Your job description, as in what you are supposed to do
- Line of management, and who you report to
- Your colleagues, team members, co-horts

Once you've settled the above, find out from your colleagues on:

- Company's mission, goals, targets etc
- The Product. Yes, you have to know what your company sells, be it services or products
- What skills are required for the job in this company?
- Reading materials to get you started
- Get yourself familiarised with the tools and components for development. The might be using certain IDEs / frameworks etc, so get acquinted with it
- Best practices and coding conventions

And above all, find out where is the pantry/smoking parlour/lepak spot, coz there's the place you are gonna hide once in a while

the first thing to do is, make sure you bring your guts.. enggard...

have enough sleep, that's very important.....because you need to be alert and look fresh

bring a mask, preferably a smiley kind of mask, because you will need to smile even when you are drained which is definite on the 1st day as a new hire.

and also prepare a template of standard replies, for questions such as:
- where were you attached to previously
- hey you look like a freshie
- where did you graduate from
- asl pls

Prepare your hand well and make sure it's not sweaty. You'll be shaking a lot on the first day ...

1st day at work...

based on my xp...bring along all my photostated certs n a passport sized picture....(for HR purposes)...

also, do wear sumthing formal, it is always best to give a good 1st impression...

p/s: to threadstarter..gud luck on ur new job...

Bring your brain. Thats all

Lol.. after few weeks I'm back to this thread. So nice.
Many thanks to everyone. I being nice to everyone.
But I'm so stress up and tired, no mood to talk to anyone. >.<
Will that effect? Even toilet makcik also recognize me.

I'm so tired and bored with formal dress code. Boring... *_*

Considering you've graduated from APIIT, dressing in formal should have been something you're used to.

Honestly though (some of you may agree with me), dressing formal makes me feel professional, and it helps me carry myself with grace and charisma. Perhaps it's psychological, but when I dress in casual wears, my professionalism level reduces marginally.

It all depends on the nature of your work. If you're in the backroom doing intense programming without having the need to meet/face customers, I would think dressing in something comfortable is acceptable. But that excludes tardiness such as slippers/shorts/singlet.

My line of work requires me to attend meetings, face vendors/customers all the time, and hence, appearance is very important.

Why so? What're the bad experiences?

Sounds a bit anti-social to me, what's the problem with the toilet aunty? She raped you? >_<

You cannot choose you working environment, the task being assigned, who is your boss etc... (unless you change company), but you can definitely choose your attitude

About the dress code, I don't like wearing formal either. And lucky enough I can wear casual in company whenever I want. But when I'm at customers site, I'll have to wear formal, and I've no problem with it... I look smart in either way

This post has been edited by samurai1337: Sep 1 2006, 08:02 AM

I do like to wear formal, makes you look rather important IMHO.

But i guess after 15 years of non-formal attire, i guess that is why i feel like it is nice to wear it.

quite lor. very anti-social. My collegues all age is very big gap with me. How to communicate? Sometimes I'm like talking to myself. Sienz..
Sry about the toilet auntie. I lead to wrong words. I'm trying to said, the only people I can talk and communicated well is auntie toilet. (only she recognnize me and smile with me others, their smile macam mahal T_T)

My boss is the most humble, talkactive, nice, funny and friendly. Without him, can't survive. He cheer up the environment. But he is busy most of the time. Impossible he will be all the time with me right? Others always give me the look
"mau cakap, cakap, tak mau cakap = silent" the soundless environment make me headache. No music, no voice. Only tick tae tick tae of mouse and keyboard sound.

Sometimes, you need to be "social" in order to survive in the company. Just wear a "mask" for it ...

do someone need to wear formal on first day of working?

yea u should be formal.

Not really ... depends on the company.

Dress code depends on nature of work/company policies and what not. But usually for office workers it's formal as far as first day is concerned.

It's not so hard to
- Ask
- Look around in the office to see how people wear during your interview or whatever visit

Cheers

This post has been edited by samurai1337: Sep 3 2006, 02:15 AM

Be thankful that the formal dressing still allows you the flexibility to choose shirt/pants colour matchings of your choice.

Try working in a corproate environment (such as banks, well, not all though) where your dress codes are strictly white shirts and black pants, 5 days per week.