Onboarding
Before newcommers first day
- The best choice for the first working day is the first day of the week.
- Create the corporate email for the new employee.
- Create all other accounts (Slack, GitHub, etc.).
- Prepare the workplace (laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc.).
- Prepare the access to the office.
- Send invites to the necessary systems.
- Schedule the meetings for the first week.
- Prepare goals and KPIs for the first month.
- Create an onboarding plan.
- Prepare video records (Product Overview, Codebase Overview, etc.). - this will help to avoid unforeseen matters, situations on the day of onboarding on your part - the new employee will know what to do at any time.
- Prepare all the technologies / approached documentation that might be new or important to the employee.
Onboarding plan (just an example)
| Task/Day | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Checkup Email, accept all the invitations, create all the necessary accounts | (Meet): Daily | |||
| 2. | (Meet): Daily | (Video): Testing Workshop | |||
| 3. | (Video): Engineering Playbook Overview | (Meet): Q&A Session | |||
| 4. | Engineering Playbook Reading | Set up and run project(s) locally | |||
| 5. | (Video): Product Overview: figma, env, and storybook | Play with codebase, investigate it | |||
| 6. | (Video): Jira Overview | (Meet): Q&A Session | |||
| 7. | (Video): Project Overview (codebase) | ||||
| 8. | (Video): Swagger Overview |