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45 Employee Onboarding Survey Questions To Ask Your New Hires

Vantage Circle

If you are an HR manager in charge of employee onboarding , here is a small piece of advice for you. Even if HR managers do end up using onboarding surveys, the effectiveness of those surveys depends on the onboarding survey questions. My mentor has been monumental in helping me adjust to my new job. Binary Questions.

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How to Use Downtime at Work Productively

Eat Your Career

You can also ask your managers if they have items like this they’d like you to tackle when things are slow. Be sure to prioritize those projects that will help you develop important skills and/or experience for your future career goals. Use your slow time to break those projects down into more manageable pieces.

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Help! My Boss Is a Jerk

Eat Your Career

Some people are cut out for management and some aren’t. You need someone who will listen with compassion but also remain professional and be your mentor. Also ask yourself: “How much will my boss impact my future career?” I’m not naming names but I’ve worked for some pretty difficult people in my life. They were jerks.

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The Internet has created a generation of great writers | Penelope.

Penelope Trunk

And I say that as the mother of a bright 10 year old who declares her intent to be an author as her future career! Now I've gotten it down to 49, which feels much more manageable. Her career advice appears in more than 200 newspapers. Great post and thought provoking indeed. Guess I'm really more Gen X at heart?