What should I say in my first-week check-in with my manager?

Report state rather than effort: what is finished, what has started, what you can now do alone, and the one thing that is blocked. Then ask one forward-looking question about what matters next week. Three sentences are enough. Ending with a question turns a report into a conversation, and it gives your manager the opening to tell you what they actually want from the second week.

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