Looking after a new employee during their first few weeks at work can mean the difference between their success and failure as employees as well as your success and failure as an employer, manager or supervisor.

Proper orientation determines how fast the new employee can be productive and efficient in his or her new job while giving you a good opportunity to make your new employee an efficient part of your team.

Below are 15 suggestions that will help you deal with your new employees during their first few weeks to help make sure that they get started on the right track.

1. Have a induction policy for welcoming and training new employees. Don’t just leave it to whoever is available. Human resources should cover the HR side of the induction with a trainer (if you have one) or a senior manager or supervisor covering the more hands on part of the job. Either way the following is a minimum of what is required.

2. Give your employee a warm welcome. Don’t just point them to the area they work and let them get on with it. Nothing makes a new employee feel comfortable more than a warm welcome.

3. Give them a brief description about your role as a supervisor. Knowing who’s in charge and what you expect from them will make them more comfortable with you as the boss.

4. Give your new employee a welcome tour of the whole department or, if the site isn’t too big, the whole site. Make sure they know how to get to the bathroom, emergency exits, cafeteria, etc.
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Hiring an employee can be a big step for many small business owners. It means the end of doing EVERYTHING yourself and passing off some of the work!

In order to make the experience rewarding for both you and your employees there are a few things that every boss and leader should do…

1) Reward people for a job well done. Its frustrating working for someone who enjoys all the financial rewards of the efforts put forth by the entire team, especially if they don’t recognize what everyone has accomplished and contributed.

It doesn’t take much to acknowledge the effort of your staff. It makes a HUGE difference in the working atmosphere when you take a few moments to acknowledge your team. People like to know that they’ve done a good job.

2) Always provide a balance between positive and negative comments. Your job as a leader is to recognize the talents of those around you and feed them with the motivation and positive energy to take YOUR ideas to entirely new levels. Help them serve you better by building up their confidence… not tearing it down.

3) Step up and accept responsibility for your projects. At the end of the day if things don’t go according to plan, in my opinion, the responsibility falls onto the leader’s shoulders. Stand up and accept the responsibility should anything ever go wrong.

If your staff always bear the burden of projects gone bad, it will drag people down and destroy your working environment. Start contributing to the emotional bank account of those around you.
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Screening providers who conduct employee background checks must be ready to provide comprehensive reports through a service which follows privacy standards. Apart from that, they should use accurate methods and techniques which do not interfere with employees lives.
If you are the perfect applicant for a job and your information will be verified by one of these companies, you must take into account some special factors in order not to face this event as a common procedure.

First, some profiles may not be reliable due to false information. So, screening companies compare and check any discrepancy that can appear in the information provided by the candidate by using different data sources. Additionally, there are several types of specialists who check mistakes in order to classify them.

Secondly, they verify business and personal credentials to get an image of the applicant perceived by other persons. The results of this verification can add data on the applicant’s reliability and integrity. This is why its so important to conduct a criminal background check on potential employees.

Thirdly, some companies require more detailed checking reports, so providers may include information about social security numbers, federal court searches, substance abuse screening, education verifications, national criminal database search, etc.

You must be ready for a background check by having knowledge of the data that an employer may find about you. You can get some reports about your credit status, your motor vehicle report, and any other report you can obtain about your personal life. If you find any mistake, it is advisable to make it correct as soon as possible. You should not be afraid of employee background records, you must be only be prepared for them.