Skilled Migrant Professionals December 2015 | Page 12

Career

Do:

• Be friendly and open, e.g. ask people about what they did
on their weekend
• Be modest about your personal successes and generous in
your praise of others
• Be a team player, do your fair share of the work, including
the boring stuff
• Share the success and failures with others
• Be positive, as reflected in the saying ‘she’ll be right mate’
• Display honesty and integrity in your work activities
• Offer practical solutions to problems and suggest
improvements
• Be willing to help, e.g. volunteer for committees and
projects
• Join in with the joking, but be careful to not offend
• Join in on friendly competitions, e.g. the office football
tipping

Friendship
yes, but no
gossips!

Don’t:

• Criticise the past efforts of staff or the organisation
• Show off or brag about your achievements
• Gossip about people, especially fellow staff and bosses
• Cover up your mistakes: better to own up, apologise and
try to fix the situation
• Go around your supervisor to get a favourable decision
from someone more senior
• ‘Dob’, or tell others about someone’s mistake, unless
reporting a serious matter

JOHN TESESCO
John Tedesco is the Planning and Governance Manager
with the Rottnest Island Authority. A graduate of the Curtin
Graduate School of Business in Western Australia, his
passions at work are strategic planning and culture. John
grew up in a family that migrated to Australia.

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