First jet and high-pt measurements with the Alice experiment at the Lhc

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN currently provides p + p collisions at center-of-mass energies of √s = 7 TeV, which allow to study high-pT particle production and jet properties in a new energy regime. For a clear interpretation and the quantification of the medium influence in heavy-ion collisions on high-pT observables, a detailed understanding of these elementary reactions is essential. We present first results of the observations of jet-like properties with the Alice experiment and discuss the performance of jet reconstruction in the first year of data taking.