Onboarding : how to get your new employees up to speed in half the time / George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut.

Table of Content: Understand the organization-wide benefits of a total onboarding program: an executive summary -- Clarify your destination and messages to the candidate and the organization -- Craft your time line, write a recruiting brief, and align your stakeholders -- Create a powerful slate of potential candidates -- Evaluate candidates against the recruiting brief while pre-selling and pre-boarding -- Make the right offer, and close the right sale the right way -- Co-create a personal onboarding plan with your new employee -- Manage the announcement to set your new employee up for success -- Do what it takes to make your new employee ready, eager, and able to do real work on day one -- Make positive first impressions both ways -- Speed development of important working relationships -- Provide resources, support, and follow-through.