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  • 1.  Best Onboarding Practices

    Posted 10-27-2020 10:23 AM

    Hello ASCE Collaborate,

    Being only a few years out of school I have taken part in a few onboarding procedures whether it be for an internship or a job.

    I wanted to start a thread to discuss some common and uncommon onboarding procedures so managers and employees can reflect on what practices are productive versus some those that are not.

    Employees
    Please share some onboarding practices that you find most helpful (and which do you find contrary)?

    Managers
    What are some effective and efficient onboarding practices from a managerial perspective?


    Always willing to learn,



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    Daniel Bressler EIT, A.M.ASCE
    Junior Engineer
    Brooklyn NY
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  • 2.  RE: Best Onboarding Practices

    Posted 11-04-2020 12:01 PM
    Thanks Daniel for opening this thread! 
    I like the onboarding process at our firm that help new hires hit the ground running right away :
    • Have a clear working plan (what projects will be working on, who to talk to, etc) and be readily available whenever questions arise.
    • Apart from assigning a supervisor, we also have a buddy system which we pair new hires with one employee to be their day-to-day helper which works great especially in the first few months.
    • Get them involved in office day-to-day activities such as happy hour, coffee break, employee networks' activities (Career network, LGBT's, Hispanic's, women's, etc) to build rapport.
    • Encourage them to join the monthly Community of Practice conference calls (many topics available) to know what cool stuffs other colleagues are doing in many offices around the world. New hires will get a chance to introduce themselves that might open up future collaboration too.


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    Tung Nguyen, PhD
    Water Resources Engineer
    Sacramento, CA
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  • 3.  RE: Best Onboarding Practices

    Posted 12-15-2020 04:58 PM
    Thanks @Daniel Bressler for starting this thread. I wanted to let everyone know we will be exploring this topic more this Thursday, December 17 at 3pm ET. I looking forward to discussing Seamlessly Onboarding Staff Virtually with @Nalah Williams, @Kancheepuram Gunalan, and @Daniel Bressler! 

    Register here!

    I hope you can join us! If you have any questions you would like discussed, please add them to this thread. ​​​​​​

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    Tirza Austin
    Manager, Online Community
    American Society of Civil Engineers
    1801 Alexander Bell Drive
    Reston, VA 20191
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  • 4.  RE: Best Onboarding Practices

    Posted 01-29-2021 04:09 PM

    Hi Daniel.
    Within the first 6 weeks of any new person to your org.,
    have at least 5 different women and men in functions this new-to-the-firm
    person will interface with, go-to breakfast, lunch, or dinner . . .with only them . . . to learn an overview of common interface challenges they have faced.

    At the end of this mini-tutorial on real life, ask the new hire to suggest what and how the situations might be addressed without fear.

    Stay Healthy!

    Cheers,

    Bill



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    William M. Hayden Jr., Ph.D., P.E., CMQ/OE, F.ASCE
    Buffalo, N.Y.

    "It is never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot 1819 - 1880
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