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Talent Trade Tidbit - Onboarding · The Talent Trade

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  Hi, this is Stephanie Maas, partner with Thinking Ahead Search Firm today.
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  I wanna give a shout out to all my community and regional banks.
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  This is based on a recent experience of a candidate that I placed in the last couple of months who came from a mega bank.
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  We were talking at the end of week one and I said, Hey, how did it go?
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  What was it like?
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  And he said, I have to tell you, I was really surprised this week.
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  So typically, I'm not a big fan of surprises.
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  Um, because most of the time it's not flowers, chocolate, wine, et cetera.
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  It's Oh, surprise, but not in this case.
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  He said when I got to work on Monday, we had orientation all day.
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  He said, usually, Stephanie, those are super boring.
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  They're long and it's monotonous.
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  You just know it's gonna be a painful day.
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  That's fine.
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  He said it wasn't.
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  It was actually very valuable information.
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  It was very helpful, and I really enjoyed the interaction amongst the other folks that I was there with.
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  Second day, he goes to his actual real desk.
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  He said everything was there, everything was set up.
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  He had his computer, he had business cards.
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  He had his phone.
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  He had his phone with a voicemail that actually worked and he chuckled and said, Stephanie, I was at my last employer for almost two years.
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  My voicemail never worked.
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  I was a constant, outstanding ticket with their IT department.
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  I had to chuckle, so it made me think about how important onboarding is one to give the shout out, and it's an easy thing, especially in you're, if you're in a slightly smaller organization to knock out of the
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  park.