The business side of IT
Getting a new hire ready for day one
Few things make a worse first impression than a new hire sitting with nothing to do while their laptop is set up.
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The short version
A new hire with a working laptop, accounts and access on their first morning starts on the right foot. Here is what to arrange.
As soon as the offer is accepted
Tell your IT team:
- Name, role, start date and manager.
- Who they will work with, so they get the right Teams, shared folders and mailboxes.
- Which applications they need beyond the standard set.
- Equipment: laptop, monitors, phone, headset.
- Where they will work: office, home or both.
Ordering a laptop can take time, so earlier is better.
Before the first day
- Computer set up from your business’s standard, encrypted and updated.
- Microsoft 365 account and license created, with the right groups and shared mailboxes.
- Access to the applications and folders for the role, and nothing extra.
- Multi-factor authentication ready to set up on day one.
- Added to the password manager and any shared folders in it.
On the first day
- Set up multi-factor authentication together.
- Show them how to get IT help and where to find files.
- Point them to security awareness training.
Make it repeatable
Write the steps down once, by role. The next hire, and the next departure, will take a fraction of the effort.
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