It was a Wednesday early in the pandemic and Kelly Chuck, who spearheads the curriculum for LinkedIn’s onboarding program, had just started noodling some ideas for a possible virtual orientation. Then she was told that LinkedIn was asking its Bay Area workforce to start working from home and she needed to have a virtual program in place for the new hires who...
Onboarding Articles
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Ah yes, that candidate you’ve been after has finally signed your offer letter. Time to watch them cruise on in and be successful. Sadly though, that's not how things work. Data shows that onboarding a new hire can make or break how their perceive the company and how productive they are. So if you want that new hire to stick around and kick butt, you need to make...
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You’ve finally found the perfect candidate and, at last, they’ve signed the offer letter. Everyone is happy and you can check that off your list and move on...right? Not so much. The hiring process doesn’t stop at the offer letter. Or, at least it shouldn’t. Not properly onboarding a new hire is one of the biggest mistakes companies make: 4% of new hires leave a...
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First impressions are everything. When you meet someone, you immediately start sizing them up, deciding who they are and how you feel...
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Just four years ago, for most companies the average time to hire was 13 days. Now it's over 23 days. Not only does that negatively...
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At Lever, the moment a new hire signs an offer letter is the best part of our day. We have the same high bar for everyone who joins...
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