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How did we do? Do you have everything you need?

Image result for let me know       Let Shannon know if you are missing anything

  • Do you have all the equipment you need?
  • How was your office? Do you know how to setup/modify your desk setup?
  • Do you know how to request office items or other items you need?
  • Are you business cards ordered?
  • Did you receive and review the NCSA policies and procedures? They are all also here for future reference: https://internal.ncsa.illinois.edu/policy/


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Have you met surrounding immediate staff, colleagues, clericals and others.

Do you know where the employee directory and other NCSA internal tools are?

Have you re-reviewed you job role and responsibilities now that you have been here a while? This

is in your new hire handbook folder. Do understand them all now?

Is your directory profile set up?
https://internal.ncsa.illinois.edu/mis/user/#/page/profile

Have you met with your manager to discuss style & expectations?

Do you need to get your picture taken for the directory by Public Affairs?

Are you familiar with the work hours for the team, expectations for attendance and notification of absence expectations?

Have you been scheduled in meetings as needed and

added to group lists?

Establish a time for a first evaluation where you can set goals (within first month).

Do you have access to wikis or Confluence pages and do you know how to use them?

Have you met with the key “players” you will be working with?

Do you know how to find conference rooms and make reservations?

Have you reviewed the overview of common programs & useful websites?

Welcome to the Software Directorate!





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  • Break rooms
  • Bathrooms
  • Conference rooms
  • Fitness room
  • Printers and Copy Machines
  • Supplies, inventory and purchasing policies
  • Parking
  • First aid kit & emergency supplies
  • Building emergency action plan
  • Swipe card rooms and hard key accesses to offices



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  • What additional training and development activities do you think you need in the next 6 months?
  • Have you heard about the Professional Development Program? https://internal.ncsa.illinois.edu/mis/api/fileCenter.php?file_id=7534
  • Would you like another group to invite you to a meeting so you can meet more people in the building? What team would you like to meet?
  • Let us know if you are a member of a job-related professional organization.

We have some questions for you: Get together with Shannon or email to start a discussion

1. How’s it going? How do you feel in your new job?

2. What are you enjoying most about your role?

3. Is the job/team/company what you expected?

4. Has anything surprised you? If so, what?

5. Has training been helpful? What would you add or change?

6. Do you have all the tools and resources that you need?

7. Do you feel like you have gotten to know your coworkers well?

8. Do you feel out of the loop about anything?

9. What should we provide to new employees that we have missed?

10. What is working/what is not working?

11. Is anything about your role, the team or company still unclear?

12. How can we support and manage you better?

13. Is there anything we can do to make your transition easier?



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