
You’re excited. You’re pumped. You’ve gone through dozens of job applications and resumes, interviewed a handful of great people, and short-listed a stellar few.
Like Morpheus from The Matrix, you’ve finally found your Neo. (Cue the angelic singing…)
Maybe you’re hiring your first new employee, or the latest in a series of new team members. After an extensive and time-consuming hiring process, you want to make sure you’re not missing something in the new hire process that could mess things up later. Most importantly, you want to make sure they’re as excited and pumped to start as you are!
You’ve decided to formalize your new hire process, and create an orientation program as part of a more structured employee onboarding process.
This article is written to help you get your new team members started quickly and efficiently. The ten-step new hire checklist I’ve outlined here will take you all the way from making an official job offer, to the start of your new team member’s first day of work.
Mike Gibbons
Mike is one of the Co-Founders at Culture Assassins, a Vancouver-based media company dedicated to preventing the destruction of healthy, high-performing organizational cultures, and to providing people with the tools necessary to build them.
Mike is a results-driven and people-oriented business leader with more than 20 years of experience in organizational and team development, marketing and product strategy, business growth strategy, and operations. He has led multiple teams and businesses, locally and globally, most recently as a senior executive for a $100M division of a Fortune 500 company.
Mike is guided by his deeply-held beliefs in connection, curiosity, humour, empathy, and honesty. In addition to his passion for workplace culture and growth, he is an avid skier, mountain biker, and sci-fi fan.