Well the training period is your first chance in to the corporate world. You are still not there yet, this is a first step in to it. However please remember that you already are a professional.
Well Congratulations but do remember to behave like one :)
The corporates are pretty much aware that they are taking a bunch of old teenagers in to their campus and hence would have their rule book ready. Most of which would be told or shown or incorporated in to you during orientation.
The first Do would be to follow the rules told clearly.
One very frequently broken rule would be Gaming. Well some companies are smart enough to prevent any form of media from entering their campuses and do not provide a chance to enter their PCs. Well I know some big companies feel it is a perk they give employees and care less. They may feel as a big corporate it is responsible to allow people to relax and play a bit. You are lucky if you are in one of them but mostly it would be a strict No during training. It would be best advised to keep the Road Rash and Age of Empires away from the training period. If you want to relax, take a walk, have a nice cup of tea. Take a stroll to see if really those big pictures you see in media about the company are real.
Second Do would be make friends
This is probably easy for most people but for those who have more friends in facebook than in real life, maybe its time to find new ones. One can say that it depends on the person and one cannot be forced to make friends.
It has multiple benefits. First it helps to build the habit of making friends, since in a big company one would be changing projects frequently, on the average maybe once in a year or two. Hence it is very important to have a friends circle to know the knitty gritties of a project and the company as a whole.
Next, once you are a professional you spend most of your time awake at office. Hence it is important to enjoy and have a life at office apart from work. Besides it is these co-workers who would help you out on a rough day.
The most important benefit especially during training time is the benefit of exchanging notes/ code/ assignments. the concept of copying your friends notes from college may also extend to your training period as well. For some assignments, it maybe needed that you just copy paste someone's code , rename the variables and submit :) Well it is not ethical, maybe your first unethical corporate act but it happens and it works.
PS: What I thought would be small topic is extending. Some more to come.
