WHAT WOULD YOU DO

 Fellow bloggers,

    As I sit here and contemplate all we have experienced over the past nine weeks, it's amazing how much information can go into one class. When we started this class early in the year 2023, I was working as an OSHA training instructor and now I sit here as a Government Civilian back working on the base. What does that mean? Well, it was an opportunity to evaluate many of the HR concepts we have discussed in this class. Below you will find three of my biggest programs and a little about how they need to be pushed to the front.

On-Boarding- I was working in this exact same position just over a year ago. The hiring manager pushed the topic of a Turn-Key hire. Well, with me, that’s precisely what they got. However, had I not been a turn-key hire, the onboarding process for not only the Civilian Side but that of the office was not one to write home about. There was zero done in the office in preparation for my arrival. The office was equipped with boxes and random items tucked away for storage over the previous few months. If that turn-key feature wasn’t in place, I would have been lost, I would have felt disconnected, in addition, the confusion about duties and meetings would have been

A second but no less critical concept is the Candidate assessment process. I agree that I was the best applicant for this position, but having the ability to see and hear how the process was applied made me feel even better. This position had 14 applicants. Of those 14 applicants, only 4 have Air Force Safety Experience. From there, as stated, they wanted to turn the key. Three interviews were conducted and I presented as the most likely to walk into the office and be able to work day 1. It was an excellent selection process and the ability to get from 14 to 4 was excellent.

The Final concept comes from a recent article that I recently read dealing with the processing analytics in the follow-up program. The concept here is feedback from the top down. If we are hiring as well as onboarding, we need to be able to measure our successes. We do that by calculating our ROI. As a turn-key employee on day one, I was having an impact. However, that’s not always the case. Some employees take more work to get up to speed, and sometimes they never will. It is through data analysis and constant feedback that we can determine where our weak points are and how we can improve the process going forward.

Its been a great experience learning about these different concepts, and I genuinely look forward to applying them as the days go by.

 

Blog….OUT!!!!

Murph

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