Comprehensive On-Boarding

 
I’m counting down the days until Christmas while checking out some interesting blog fodder across the Web.
With the holidays just around the corner, I find it appropriate to get into some of the techniques and challenges of on-boarding perhaps the most important members of the workforce this time of year: the temporary kind.
But before we get into that, there’s something a co-worker passed along that caught my eye.
Twitter, as we all know, is taking the world by storm. It seems as if nothing trendy can be said nowadays unless you can do it in 140 characters or less and use some brand of unusual Twitter jargon — like the “hashtag.”

 
Approximately three months ago, on Aug. 19, I penned my first blog entry as an associate editor at Talent Management. In typical on-boarding lingo, that means that, yes, I have completed my first 90 days in my not-so-new-anymore job.
Looking back, is there anything I would’ve done differently throughout my initial on-boarding process? For starters, I probably wouldn’t have led my first blog post with an awful hang-gliding reference. Did I think that was funny?

At its worst, on-boarding could mean issuing a copy of the employee handbook and giving a quick tour of the bathrooms and break rooms.