Recruiting should own new hires for the first 90 days
Imagine you’re a highly talented A-player starting a new job.
You walk into the office to start this new opportunity… and the general attitude is “Oh, wait, you’re starting today?”
Your work area is bare.
Your laptop is “on the way.”
Your manager is busy.
You spend the morning twiddling your thumbs and trying to look useful – even though you’re not sure what you’re supposed to be doing.
Does this first-day experience make you think this is a competent company? A place you want to spend a precious chunk of your career?
Early in my own career I had versions of this experience even at very large, successful companies.
It is, sadly, a very common experience:
Gallup finds that only 12% of employees strongly agree that their organization does a great job onboarding new employees. (Source)
This kind of sloppy start often signals a subpar onboarding process for the weeks that follow. The new hire isn’t sure who is who on the team, what resources are at their disposal, what processes they need to lea…
