Top Links for Employee Onboarding
Top Links for Employee Onboarding
New employees go through a process that is referred to onboarding. This is the time that the company can make employees feel welcome. It is also a time when they can begin to work on things like creating open communication, sharing a corporate vision, and defining goals. In the article Employee Onboarding, the following list contains high-level objectives of onboarding:
- Helping the employee to identify with their new employer.
- Allowing the employee to understand some of the company’s values and priorities.
- Building an optimistic attitude towards the company.
- Avoiding misunderstandings.
- Helping the employee feel valued.
- Encouraging socialization and creating a sense of belonging.
- Reducing new employee anxiety.
- Setting of performance expectations.
- Decreasing the learning curve.
For more information about how employers and employees can have a successful onboarding process, check out the following articles:
- Top 10 Commandment of Employee Onboarding
- Onboarding Done Better
- How to Upgrade Your Employee Onboarding
- Onboarding New Employees from SHRM
- Best Practices for Employee Onboarding
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How Employers View an Online Education
In the book The Online Student’s User Manual, I wrote quite a bit about online universities, their perception by employers and how they compare to traditional universities. Check out the following article from elearners.com that gives some interesting statistics about employer’s perception of online education, also see my previous posting about some of these results by clicking here.
How do potential employers view online courses and degrees? How are job candidates viewed based on their academic credentials, online or traditional? Under what circumstances are online degrees viewed as a “non-issue” or an asset for job applicants?
These were some of the questions posed in Hiring Practices and Attitudes: Traditional vs. Online Degree Credentials, research undertaken by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and commissioned by eLearners.com, a web resource of EducationDynamics, which connects prospective students with online degrees. And as with a number of similar studies undertaken over the past ten years, the results reflect an interesting and transitioning set of assumptions among hiring managers about the value of online degrees and degree-holders.
