Onboarding programs are a critical stage that transforms promising candidates into highly productive employees. These programs can boost your new hires' productivity by up to 70%!
Google has an immersive mentorship program where potential employees, fondly referred to as Nooglers, go through a two-week program where everyone is taught how to use multiple tools within the Google ecosystem. They develop projects in groups and code for open-source programs. By the time the Nooglers are done with the program, they know everything about everything (arguably).
Data science, in itself, is an interdisciplinary field that uses various tools and technologies to interpret, understand, and extrapolate with a goal to discover hidden patterns in data and make relevant, business-oriented decisions.
Research by People Matters in 2018 spoke of a book by Peter Senge where he coined the term ‘Learning Organization’. His rationale behind this term was that organizations that are learning and are flexible, productive, and adaptive to change will excel. The book was published in the 1990s when L&D-based business strategies were just a concept, and now we can see coming true.
The nature of jobs and businesses has changed by leaps and bounds over the last decade. Almost all jobs now require technical dexterity, many job roles like talent acquisition require new recruiter skills, and some roles are even extinct.
