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Let’s define a few terms before we get started: - Corporate Culture has been defined as: “...the shared values, attitudes, standards, and beliefs that characterize members of an organization and define its nature. Corporate culture is rooted in an organization's goals, strategies, structure, and approaches to labor, customers, investors, and the greater community.” - Job Readiness is basically doing what your employer expects of you and knowing the basics of how a business works. It covers verbal communications, workplace relationships and written communications. - On-Boarding is defined as the induction and assimilation of a new employee into a company or organization. Most companies now have formal on-boarding programs for their new employees. Organizations who are more progressive realize that the on-boarding period is an excellent time to educate the new employee about their corporate culture and job readiness because they are all related. So how is Job Readiness and Company Corporate Culture Related? If you look at the foundation of almost all corporate cultures it is about honesty, integrity, ethics, when to start work, overtime working, business relationships, values, and other forms of communications. If you can provide a good course in job readiness it will help your unique corporate culture. Employees who are right out of college or veterans transitioning into the civilian market place need to have job readiness because they have no idea how businesses work. They do not know what their employers, peers or customers expect from them. A good Job Readiness program will solve these problems. If you start this program now, and keep doing it for every new employee coming in for the next few years, you will end up with a staff who have been all educated to the same level and going in the same direction Everyone will understand what is expected of them as well as an appreciation for the organizations unique corporate culture. HR people love to have everyone given identical information during on-boarding because everyone receives the same information reducing the potential for future lawsuits. The cornerstones of a successful orientation consist of an understanding and appreciation of the corporate culture exclusive to your company as well as the specific Job Readiness criteria. The process, while dynamic, still will take time. However, the end desired result will be that everyone will know all the inside details of your organization, what is expected as well the unwritten rules of some corporate cultures. If you decide to change your corporate culture, orientation is a good place to start for all new people. Jim Stedt is a partner at The Business SoftSkills Company (GetSoftSkillsNow.Com) located in Santa Ana, California. They provide job readiness and workforce success videos for education, business, prisons and individual use. Training is available online, on DVD, or through an affiliate program. These products are the most complete and concise soft skills training packages now available for the price of an average college textbook.
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