Onboarding: Revolve it around stories

If people are truly job-hopping more than ever, then onboarding is tremendously important. But most companies still do it horribly. What if we shifted the focus ever so slightly, though?

Onboarding is a favorite topic of mine, which might seem weird to some people because I'm not a "HR professional" nor have I ever really worked in Human Resources. So why do I care so much about onboarding? Let me try and run this down for you:

• The Gold Watch Era is over: By that I mean, people are staying at one or two companies a lot less -- and job-ho…