Preface

The new talent you bring into your organization creates and drives your business results. The New Employee Onboarding process is a chance to start employees off on the right track—to build culture, attitudes, knowledge, and skill sets right from the beginning that will support and grow the company’s business.

If you are responsible for orienting new employees, then you are the CEO of first impressions, as well as initial job satisfaction and accelerated new employee productivity. You represent the entire company to each new employee, so your job is critical. The organization has only one chance to create a first impression, and you have been chosen to deliver it.

Yet many companies have hundreds or even thousands of employees coming ...

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