Just Introduce Yourself It ' s so easy to walk into your first job and feel like a stranger in a strange hand . But you don ' t have to stay that way and you shouldn ' t . You have to remind yourself to kick your shyness away and introduce yourself . Just a handshake will do . Ask the supervisor who hired you to introduce you around a bit . That ' s the best way to make contacts . Then you ' ll know what to do and say when you meet these people again . Don ' t do what my friend Sue did at her first job at Entertainment weekly . “ That is one of my biggest regrets ; I hardly talked to anyone at all when I was there . I was scared and just thought people would talk to me first . For a long time , I was hung up on the thought that if someone was older , I respected them automatically . And even if someone started on Monday , and I started Tuesday , I just felt they had more experience . In the area I worded for four months . I hardly spoke to these people , ” she said . “ Of course , now I realize that was the most stupid thing . If I could do that again , I ' d remember that it ' s so important not to feel shy about introducing yourself . It ' s not like you have to be very bold , ready to take over the place . Just introduce yourself and ask if there is anything you can do for them . That break the ice . ” Sue believes that if she had introduced herself around a bit , there would be just ne telling what other opportunities or what other acquaintances she might have now . Not that she regrets where she is now at all . But had she talked to more people at her first job , “ maybe it would have helped me get somewhere sooner, ” she said .