Step 3Hiring and Onboarding
Processes that allow new employees to learn about the organization, its structure, and its vision, mission and values, as well as to complete an initial new-hire orientation process.
Resources
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Best practices forAll employees
- Communicate before the first day, send a welcome letter to the new employee and family, lay out what they can expect in their first week.
- Send the hiring manager a “reminder alert” email requesting these five critical tasks are done on the first day:
• Roles and responsibility discussion
• Match new employee with a peer buddy
• Help new employee build social network
• Set up monthly onboarding check-in for first six months
• Encourage open dialogue - Build a 90-day plan in the first week.
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Best practices for Veterans
- Send an introduction letter to the team, highlighting some of the assignments and places the Veteran has been. Be sure to let the team and leadership know what department the Veteran will be working in and the date of their first day on the job. Conduct a team introduction.
- Send information about the company dress code in a welcome letter.
- Build in tangible goals and check-in points on their 90-day plan.
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Questions to ask
- Have you developed a plan for newly hired Veteran’s first week of employment?
- Is there anything the hiring manager needs to support the “reminder alert” email?
- Did you develop a 90-day plan template that can be used universally?
- Based on the introductory letter, does anyone on the team have points of common ground with the new Veteran hire?
- Have you calendared the 90-day check-in points to ensure dedicated time?
- Did you define clearly what the dress code is? If there is a special item like company Friday, did you send a shirt to the new hire?
