The First Month
Goal: Continue to train your new employee in their specific role, while supporting them with less frequent check-ins.
- Continue to meet for 1:1s once a week or every other week. Identify who is best for the new hire to go to when supervisor is not present.
- Have 1:1 meetings set up with the rest of the team/individuals the new hire will frequently work with. These could be casual, virtual coffee chats or more related to work based on your new hire’s needs
- Have a 30-day check-in
- The onboarding program manager is available to meet with the supervisor/hiring manager to develop what this may look like for your new hire.
- Discuss CU’s Performance Planning and Review.
- Complete the Work Agreement Form for employees working in hybrid or remote work modalities.
- Complete department/division level orientation, trainings and team building activities.
- Schedule time to attend division and campus-wide onboarding programs
- Student Life New Employee Orientation: This training provides new Student Life employees with useful information about the division and resources for staff. New staff are encouraged to attend a New Employee Orientation session within their first six months.
- New Employee Welcome Experience: This all-day tour of central and east campus connects new hires and shares the story of how CU Boulder became the institution it is today. This is ideally scheduled within a new hire’s first two months.
- CU Discover: Held monthly/bimonthly, these 1-hour virtual sessions present an opportunity to learn more about working in higher education and at CU Boulder.
- Ensure new hire completes CU Boulder’s two mandatory trainings:
- Ensure new hire completes access-based trainings.
- Encourage new hire to enroll in their benefits and/or attend a benefits orientation within the first 31 days of their start date.
- In-person orientation: Generally offered every other week in the Administrative & Research Center (ARC) third floor from 2:30-4 p.m. MT.
- Video orientation: Available online in Spanish and English.
Review the following items for Student Life Finance:
Student Life Finance will send a financial overview training of financials to learn key terms like ‘speedtype’ and ‘account code.’
- If your new hire will oversee a budget or portion of the department’s budget (including gifts, grants, staff, student staff), have them register for budget training.
- Access to mfin and training.
- Access to Student Life data warehouse and training
- If your new hire will have a business need to receive payments, reach out to Student Life Finance to schedule PCI and/or cash handling training.