Onboarding new employees to your team is all too often treated as an afterthought, or best case, as an at-the-moment-thought. Employees deserve a well-thought out experience that includes them from the very beginning–from the creation of the position description—to that time after they’ve become integrated into our teams and organizations. We can trace some of these imperfect scenarios all the way back to the creation our performance profiles or position descriptions, and how they were created. When we understand the entire journey from candidate to employee we see the value of treating onboarding as an ending of a particular process instead of a solitary event in time.
The presentation is all about how to bring UXers (or anyone, really) into your organization in a way that gives them a positive experience, by designing for it, from all the way to the point of considering the roles you’re hiring for, into their first days. It’s essentially designing a great hiring and new-hire experience; definitely through the lens of designers.
