Get Your Students Hired
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Hiring the Right Faculty for Your Institution --> Job Offer and Orientation
Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. Feel free to post questions and comments too.
Los programas de orientación de empleados exitosos incluyen varios elementos claves que aseguran una integración efectiva de los nuevos colaboradores en la organización
No matter how small your company is Onboarding and Orientation is huge part of your new employee's success.
Comment on Bobbet Mullings's post: I agree this is a great way to build rapport with the new hire and an opportunity to answer questions or provide additional insight in a one-to-one setting.
we have had so many procedures around orientation come and go and never get used. we really need a formal policy.
The orientation will also be a determining factor if the new hire will last as an instructor in our school.
Something new I picked up is while offering the position to an applicant, it is sometimes most effective to offer it in person due to the commitment the applicant took to coming to discuss the offering.
A new instructor should not be simply thrown into the classroom with a copy of the textbook and a slide deck. They should receive a well-planned onboarding that begins on their first day of employment. The onboarding should not be overwhelming. Be able to judge when the new instructor has had enough and save the rest for tomorrow.
Great insight to how a first day should be conducted. Unfortunately, many organizations dont spend enough time training staff and giving clear expectations.
A job offer should be after the interviewing process has eliminated the lesser qualified candidates and a decision has been made. The orientation should be a time of introduction to other department and faculty members and to allow the new employee to get a feel for his/her new environment.
Informal and formal orientations are usually the best way to get a new hire familiar with the institutions.
Reply to Regina Bush's post:Making sure new hires are properly oriented is so important. I have worked for organizations that did this well, and others who just basically through you to the wolves.
Reply to Abraham Cicchetti's post: It is great to know many are actually employing these suggestions.
The ideas make sense. We have to adapt becasue we are deaing soley with online. All of our admin is online as well as the faculty.
A good orientation and thorough prepararion is crutial to the success of the instructor and their longevity with the college. I have been to too many colleges that jsut through their faculty ito the classroom after a rushe hairy kari orientation. It was swim or sink. horrible eperience.
A good orientation and preparation is key for a new instructor to feel confident and ready to enter our classrooms. I have found that shodowing a seasoned instructor may also be helpful as long as the new instrctor introduces herself/himself and is not lurking in the edges but jumping in and helping in whatever activity is going on.
I really like how this section emphasizes the soft skills that a manager should have with the new hire. At the end of the day we want to hire the right person for the job and the right person is a human being that needs support and wants to be part of something other than just a "cold" organization or structure.
In person offers are not an option when hiring remote. They should discuss remote employees.