Improving Your Onboarding Success: Integrating Recent Grads into Your Workforce

This Webcast was recorded on August 27, 2008.

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Onboarding is far more than logistics and a polished orientation video.

As new hires join the workforce from college each year, they need clarity of expectations, support, and the right tools to shorten their learning curve, deliver results, and stay engaged for the long term.

The fact is that today’s graduates want to make their mark in your organization and blaze a career path right from the start.

In this Webcast, we will explore the transition between college and the "real" world. Our panel will examine what both recent graduates and organizations need to know to make this transition a success. This includes:

• Business basics: what recent grads need to know to hit the ground running
• What motivates recent grads and how to keep them engaged
• Advice on how organizations should orient newly minted grads
• What managers need to know to integrate Gen Y into their team
• And much more

Today’s new hires need more than just a paycheck to keep them committed. Attend this program and discover ways to transition new hires into productive contributors as well as reinvigorate current staff.

About the Presenters:

Nancy Barry is a consultant and motivational speaker with a passion for helping twentysomethings become successful in their careers. She is the author of When Reality Hits: What Employers Want Recent College Graduates to Know.

Malla Haridat is Director of Employer and Alumni Relations with Columbia University, Center for Career Education and the owner of New Designs for Life, providing strategic consulting, coaching and training to women and minority entrepreneurs.

Lindsey Pollak is a consultant and frequent speaker at universities, corporations and professional conferences around the country.  She is the author of Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World, and has written articles for Marie Claire, Metro New York, and numerous career advice Websites.

For additional training, consider these AMA seminars:

• Communicating with a Multigenerational Workforce (#2212)
• Communication Boot Camp (#2210)
• Taking on Greater Responsibility: Step-up Skills for Nonmanagers (#2132)

To learn more, read these AMACOM Books:

• The It Factor, by Mark Wiskup
• The Boss from Outer Space and Other Aliens at Work, by Patricia J. Addesso
• The Etiquette Edge: The Unspoken Rules for Business Success, by Beverly Langford
• The Career Clinic: Eight Simple Rules for Finding Work You Love, by Maureen Anderson