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from the blogSet Your New Hire Up for Success: The Secrets of Onboarding
You followed our 6 Steps for Hiring The Right Person, and you found a fantastic new candidate to join your team. How do you keep the positive momentum going? A thoughtful “onboarding” process is a critical component of successful entry for your new hire.
Six Steps to Hiring the Right Person for the Job
This article is excerpted from an HR best practices webinar that Clarity presented in partnership with Washington Nonprofits.
Human resources are the people that make up your workforce—from the largest corporation to the smallest business or nonprofit organization. They are the engine that power your ability to invent things, produce things, or deliver services. Humans bring the value to your enterprise. As a business or nonprofit organization, your employees are your greatest expense and your greatest opportunity.
Once hired, it takes 6 months for an employee to learn all aspects of their job, and an additional 6 months to become proficient at it. This means it takes a full year to begin to offset the cost and investment of the employer. To receive a return on investment of a full year of expenses associated with hiring, on-boarding, training, and supporting your new employee to proficiency, you really need to keep an employee for two years. This is why it’s important to find just the right fit for your position during the hiring process!
Here are six steps every organization should take to boost their chances of finding and hiring a great match.
Meet Sally Keeling, Senior Accountant
Please join us in welcoming Sally, our new Senior Accountant. Sally comes to Clarity with twenty years of experience in finances and a passion for accounting. She has worked in hospitals, nonprofits, accounting firms, and medical clinics, doing everything from payroll to accounts payable, from reporting and forecasting, to auditing and tax preparation. She has a BS in Business Administration, and an MBA with a concentration in Accounting.
Welcome Fernando, Human Resources Consultant
Clarity is delighted to welcome Fernando J Conill, human resources management expert, to our growing team. Fernando brings extra capacity for Clarity to provide human resources management consulting, support, and training for our clients.