If it's your first day today, we'd just like you to know how happy we are to have you with us :)
To give you an idea of what to expect from your on-boarding, we have written this short guide. It covers the things that we think are important for new starters and we hope it provides a basis for your successful on-boarding.
Over the next few days and weeks we'll introduce:
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Company mission, values, business services and EOSs - We'll talk about our mission and why the business exists. We'll tell you why we think it's important to improve software delivery in every organisation and how you can help us to achieve our mission.
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Peer buddy — As part of our on-boarding process, we'll introduce you to a company buddy who will be available whenever you need them. If anything crops (from simple questions to emergencies), feel free to let your buddy know and they will do all they can to help.
It goes without saying that myself and the other directors (+ rest of the team) are here too, so there should be plenty of places to turn if you need anything.
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Role expectations — All our team members have role expectations and we'll work with you to introduce these to you over the coming weeks.
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Career development 121s — As part of your on-boarding process and ongoing career development, you'll have a monthly 121 with your Line Manager or one of the company directors. These sessions are an opportunity for us to review your progress, look at areas where we can provide support.
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Marketplace — Every Friday at LearnTech, we run a several learning sessions which we share on a Marketplace. The idea behind this is to share learnings from across the company to look at how we can improve. Please contribute to these and once you're feeling confident enough, look to facilitate one of them
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Salary, Pensions & Expenses — We'll take you through how our finance work, where to go to if you have any questions around salary, pensions or if you need to submit an expense claim / get a company credit card.
Our on-boarding checklist is hosted on airtable. You will receive a link to your personal checklist on your first day. Below are a few things this will cover.
- Signed Contract
- Tour of the office
- Complete welcome form (the password for this form can be found in the
int-onboarding
1password vault) - Introduction to company mission, business services, and EOS
- Meet your buddy
- Attend first career development 121 to introduce role expectations
- Attend first Marketplace session
- Understand salary, pensions, and expenses
- Understand where office supplies can be found
- Understand how weekly shop works and how to ask for office supplies
- Office keys (if applicable)
- Read the Acceptable Use Policy & Bring Your Own Device Policy
- Ensure your own devices used for work are secure
- Get added to team@madetech.com mailing list
- Set up Slack account with picture, name(s), name pronunciation guide and pronouns
- Enrollment to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
- Complete the Github tutorial
Below you'll find a list of tools that you will need to do your job. You will be setup with the accounts you'll need on your first day with us.
Note that Google office applications (Docs, Sheets) are the preferred format for internal office documents, to be stored in Google Drive
- Google Mail (with 2FA)
- Github (with 2FA)
- Slack (with 2FA)
- 1Password (with 2FA)
- Trello (with 2FA unless using Google Auth to login to Trello)
- CharlieHR
Academy Engineers: you can skip these two for now, but you will probably need them once you graduate.
- Xero
- Harvest
- HubSpot
- Access to LinkedIn Sales Navigator
- Get access to infrastructure for delivery team
There will be a scheduled workshop that will get your machine setup for development.
To get your machine set up with some essentials we've created First Boot.
First Boot will install applications like Chrome, Slack, and Sequel Pro as well as installing the latest version of Ruby using rbenv
, and the latest version of Node using nvm
.