Most big companies provide comprehensive orientation programs, employee handbooks, and on-the-job lessons to get new hires up to speed. To help recently hired graduates better understand the corporate world, Insider spoke with five human-resources professionals and advisors about their advice for young workers. But Traci Wilk, the chief people officer at The Learning Experience, a national preschool franchise, says new hires especially should demonstrate their curiosity. When determining how to show up for work, new hires should weigh what the culture actually is versus what it professes to be. To that end, Walden advises new hires to sweep their social-media accounts for any posts that could be deemed inappropriate.

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Persons: Traci Wilk, David Altman, McKensie Mack, Mack, Sasha Diskin, Sasha Diskin Sasha Diskin, Rob Cross, Leah Scanlan, Scanlan, Wilk, Jeanniey Walden, Walden Organizations: Starbucks, Center for Creative Leadership, Horizon Therapeutics, Babson College, Oak HC