Onboarding begins with your business objectives. Start by stopping to figure out what you want to accomplish and how you expect your future new employee to deliver or contribute to target results.
Think business strategy. You risk leaving a lot on the table if you treat hiring as a transactional event as opposed to a strategic opportunity.
– an excerpt from Onboarding (Bradt and Vonnegut, Wiley, 2009)
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