Workbook
The New Hire's getting started Workbook
How to Figure Out Who You Are at This Job Before the Job Decides for You
The organization figures out what to do with you. Here, you figure it out first.
For the new hire in their first 30 days who senses the job is already shaping them and wants to shape back.
The Name It First Experience
Starting a new job is one of the highest-pressure identity moments in professional life. The environment is new, the norms are unwritten, and the pressure to read the room and adapt is intense. Most people navigate this by becoming whoever the job seems to need them to be — often without noticing. This workbook is for the 30-day window before that becomes permanent. You will name the values, strengths, and non-negotiables you are bringing before the organization has absorbed you. The output is not a career plan. It is a document that says: this is who I am here, in language you wrote before anyone else wrote it for you.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- Who are you bringing into this job — and have you written that down before the organization starts writing it for you?
- What are your actual values, real strengths, and non-negotiables about how you work — the ones that are true whether or not this job rewards them?
- What do you want to hold onto from who you were before this job — and what would it mean to lose it?
Research basis
Schlossberg transition theory (moving in — new environment navigation and self-in-situation calibration) / Ibarra working identity (provisional selves in new role contexts) / Van Maanen & Schein organizational socialization theory (institutionalized vs. individualized onboarding outcomes) / Maslach burnout inventory — early role ambiguity and identity suppression as burnout precursors / Saks organizational entry research (newcomer information seeking and identity protection)
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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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