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 = 7TeV, 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 on the observation of jet-like properties with the ALICE experiment and discuss the performance of jet reconstruction in the first year of data taking