IDG Contributor Network: The executive guide to onboarding yourself

"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships." – Douglas Coupland
Onboarding used to be an afterthought (or a non-thought) with many companies. Most people’s experience with corporate onboarding reminds of the scene in Being John Malkovich where John Cusack watches a silly looking, amateurishly produced film about his new employer’s mythical founding.Nowadays many companies have instituted formal, onboarding processes that are suppos