Hiring & Talent Continuity
Hiring and Onboarding
Connect role requirements to selection and plan a staged onboarding experience with early milestones for new hires.
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This course focuses on effective hiring and onboarding. Participants learn to connect role requirements, selection, and a staged entry experience, using an onboarding plan with early milestones to organize their next steps.
What you'll learn
- Develop a strategic approach to recruitment and selection
- Create comprehensive onboarding plans to help new hires integrate into the organization seamlessly
- Apply retention strategies and create a positive employee experience
- Use course methods to connect role requirements, selection, and a staged entry experience in a workplace scenario.
- Develop an onboarding plan with early milestones aligned to a relevant work need.
What you'll be able to do
- Identify a workplace need connected to effective hiring and onboarding.
- Select an appropriate way to connect role requirements, selection, and a staged entry experience.
- Explain the reasoning behind that choice and identify its limitations.
- Produce an onboarding plan with early milestones that addresses a relevant work need.
- Set review points for an onboarding plan with early milestones and identify one adjustment.
Hiring the right people and helping them succeed quickly are among a federal leader's most important responsibilities. This course helps supervisors and managers partner with HR on sound selection decisions and design onboarding that sets new employees up for success. It supports OPM's emphasis on hiring practices to build a talented workforce, grounded in fair, consistent selection practices.
What you'll learn
- Explain the hiring manager's role and how to partner effectively with HR.
- Connect position requirements to fair, well-documented selection decisions.
- Apply structured interviewing practices.
- Create onboarding plans that help new employees integrate and contribute.
- Identify retention practices that support a positive employee experience.
What you'll be able to do
- Define clear position requirements with HR.
- Conduct structured, consistent interviews.
- Make selection decisions based on clear, job-related criteria.
- Deliver onboarding that builds early confidence and connection.
- Retain new employees through regular check-ins and support.