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An employee onboarding cheat sheet

With the mentor’s help, create a 90-day plan that is both unit- and job-specific. Include time frames for tasks to be learned, not mastered. Here's a cheat sheet.

Jim Korner, Assistant Vice President, Professional and Community...

June 15, 2016

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A cheat sheet for a new employee’s first 90 days

  • Organization orientation

  • Assign a mentor

  • Create a 90-day plan with time frames

  • Check in with the staff member and mentor periodically

  • Celebrate the new hire’s successes as a team

  • Don’t forget the person after 90 days

About the Author

Jim Korner

Assistant Vice President, Professional and Community...

Jim Korner’s professional experience includes 30 years of college and university administration in auxiliary services. He provides leadership to the noncredit portfolio for Penn State University’s Outreach and Online Education and also serves as an adjunct instructor for the School of Hospitality Management at Penn State. He is a graduate of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and has a MBA from Webster University in St. Louis, Mo., Korner began his food service career at Ohio University, and later became the director of campus dining services at the University of Missouri-Columbia and executive director of university services at Seattle Pacific University. He served national president of the National Association of College and University Food Service (NACUFS) in 2000. 

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