The onboarding process sets the tone for a student who is a new employee at Seneca.

Seneca’s goal is to develop an onboarding program or orientation that will welcome and excite our new student employees and help them succeed during their co-op/work term/summer job at Seneca. We also want to make our hiring and onboarding experience more aligned with industry best practices.

This Riipen project provides an experiential learning opportunity for students to analyze Seneca’s current onboarding program and develop an updated student-centered program that aligns with our goals, requirements, organizational culture to make a lasting positive impact on new student employees.

To accomplish this, we believe students should focus on:

• Reviewing Seneca’s current employee onboarding program (Employee Orientation website)
• Researching and analyzing industry best practices for a student employee onboarding program or student employee orientation
• Brainstorming creative, effective and efficient onboarding practices we could incorporate

Your onboarding student employee program recommendations may or may not include:

· Being assigned a mentor

· Student employee orientation day

· Internal networking events

· A manual/checklist for reference

· And more!

Project Deliverables:

1. A report detailing research and findings on Seneca’s existing employee onboarding program and industry best practices, with recommendations of a framework for a student employee onboarding or orientation program
2. A presentation or video reviewing insights and recommendations