Onboarding of new graduates in a remote workplace
I'm curious how companies are handling onboarding of new graduates when their workplace has gone remote. I haven't had to do any onboarding since COVID, and have never done onboarding of any talent into a remote workplace, but it seems fraught with pitfalls. I'd love to hear people's best practices and avoid any mistakes.
We've done a Buddy System for the last 10 or so new hires we've onboarded.
I found a template from NYU that I just copied and edited a bit:
https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/hr/documents/managerguid...
It's been very effective and helped give a resource for cultural questions people might not want to ask to their boss.
If your workplace doesn't have a lot of meetings or informal gettogethers, set up meetings with each group or team in your organization where the new joiner is the guest of honor. Space them at least a day apart so the newcomer isn't overwhelmed. Each group describes what they're working on and why it's important to the organization.
I'm also curious how the get the most of such a onboarding
The same way you onboard folks that are not remote, sans the awkward shuffle around the place shaking hands with strangers and being told where the toilets and fire exits are.
I’d love to hear what kind of pitfalls concern you.