Dive Brief:
- What might once have called simply making new employees feel welcome and integrated has a term now – onboarding – and a good onboarding program can help construction-industry firms hang onto professional employees who are becoming a competitive commodity.
- Onboarding is a program that goes beyond the here's-the-handbook, here's-where-you-park process by setting employees up to be and feel successful and welcome.
- It is more comprehensive than just the typical orientation program and may look more like a mentoring/coaching program.
Dive Insight:
Changing jobs is stressful. It's one of the big life-change decisions, up there with marrying or buying a house. In a culture in which a quarter of the working population make a career change every year, the company and the new employee both gain by helping that new project manager or estimator or engineer get up to speed and succeed quickly and creating a worker-company bond.