September 2009
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266 pages
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Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time
by George Bradt, Mary Vonnegut
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Chang, Klarissa, Kate Ehrlich, and David Millen. “Getting on Board: A Social Network Analysis of the Transformation of New Hires into Full-Time Employees.” Paper presented at the meeting of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Workshop on Social Networks, Chicago, November 6-10, 2004.
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Divittis, Maude. “Identifying Solutions for Effective Individual + Team Onboarding” presentation to the American Society for Training and Development International Conference Exposition, San Diego, CA, June 1, 2008; and series of conversations with George Bradt 2005-2008. ...
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