I can’t think of a great software on boarding experience. In fact the quality of onboarding is often inversely proportional to the perceived value/duration of t

I can’t think of a great software on boarding experience. In fact the quality of onboarding is often inversely proportional to the perceived value/duration of the job, such that a crappy temp job is likely to have excellent onboarding to maximize perceived ROI. What I have learned from my time in the military is that onboarding is more important than candidate selection. Regardless of onboarding success comes down to personality. The quality of a candidate’s professional experience is more a reflection of that personality than an indication of current technical competence, which is where candidate selection is often severely misunderstood. Provided a properly selected candidate there can be enormous room for positional success if the criteria of success are well defined, documented, and trained. This is where onboarding is important. I have never seen corporate software get this correct even though the same company likely has this mastered in other career fields. The common expectation is that some other company trained the candidate for you and that they are fully technically competent walking through the door. That is an unrealistic expectation born from poor planning and lazy leaders. The result is beginners that need tremendous hand holding and the bar of acceptance to be continuously lowered or seniors that are everything the company wants except compatibility with people who need too much hand holding.