Career Culture Shock

Lisa Balbes

Thoughts on navigating a new work environment.

 

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The other day, I was talking to a college student who recently started his summer job. He had a position that was very similar to what he had done the previous summer, but in a different place. Each organization had similar numbers of staff and customers, similar tasks that needed to be done and similar metrics for success. Yet, they were very different in one key respect: their culture.

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