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I'd add a few more: - "Lost in space": Give your new hire a tour of the relevant facilities. Toilets, kitchen, canteen, bicycle garage, important offices (boss

by c00lio 3y ago

I'd add a few more: - "Lost in space": Give your new hire a tour of the relevant facilities. Toilets, kitchen, canteen, bicycle garage, important offices (boss, secretary/team assistance, IT helpdesk, ...), etc. Same for online resources and intranet, have a proper entry page that lists everything relevant and has a proper search function (which seems to be exceedingly hard...). - "Your chair is still on order": Have things ready on day 1. Nothing is worse than waiting on necessary accounts, hardware or people for the onboarding. If you cannot have things ready, at least have the decency to not have your new hire sit around twiddling thumbs, find something interesting and productive to do for them, e.g. learning new things. - "Talk to the wee lass with the fangs, horns and the striped hair": Introduce people, introduce their roles and places in hierarchy. Even if things like "chain of command" are usually fuzzy at your place, at least for the first few weeks, make it easy for the new hire to fit into a simplified "command structure". Don't send a new hire to see somebody, always accompany them and make introductions. - "Nobody likes the noob": Always make a point to include a new hire in the usual social activities. For example, go to lunch as a group (even if you usually don't) to get everyone together with the new one in a less formal setting.

base698 3y ago
> Your chair is still on order A company I worked for was hiring up for a new initiative. A new hire got the job and was on vacation when he got the offer. They demanded he start immediately and leave his vacation a week early. He obliges and starts the next week cancelling the second half of his vacation. He arrives and there is no where for him to sit and they hadn't even bothered ordering his equipment.
- CoastalCoder 3y ago
  Please, name the company if you can.
ochronus 3y ago
A HUGE plus one to the last point - making social connections is usually even harder / not cared for than subject matter onboarding.
rgblambda 3y ago
> "Your chair is still on order" When I started at my current job, nobody was present when I showed up to the office. Everyone was WFH. Nobody knew where my MacBook was being delivered to as I hadn't provided an address (I moved cities for the job), but it was in transit to somewhere. There was the usual onboarding documentation being out of date and inaccurate but that occurs everywhere. Thankfully things got better or it would have been my shortest stint in a role ever. There was an understanding among my new colleagues as to how badly they fucked up.

by c00lio 3y ago

base698 3y ago

> Your chair is still on order A company I worked for was hiring up for a new initiative. A new hire got the job and was on vacation when he got the offer. They demanded he start immediately and leave his vacation a week early. He obliges and starts the next week cancelling the second half of his vacation. He arrives and there is no where for him to sit and they hadn't even bothered ordering his equipment.

CoastalCoder 3y ago
Please, name the company if you can.

ochronus 3y ago

A HUGE plus one to the last point - making social connections is usually even harder / not cared for than subject matter onboarding.

rgblambda 3y ago

> "Your chair is still on order" When I started at my current job, nobody was present when I showed up to the office. Everyone was WFH. Nobody knew where my MacBook was being delivered to as I hadn't provided an address (I moved cities for the job), but it was in transit to somewhere. There was the usual onboarding documentation being out of date and inaccurate but that occurs everywhere. Thankfully things got better or it would have been my shortest stint in a role ever. There was an understanding among my new colleagues as to how badly they fucked up.