Employers and HR leaders: How well does your onboarding process prepare new employees to become productive fast?  How do you know?

I recently came across a new data set on onboarding practices. In “Welcome Aboard,” Brian Taliesin of Intrepid Learning breaks down the results of their 2011 Onboarding Survey, which probed 50 organizations of various sizes and industries about their onboarding processes and timelines.  While the sample set was informally drawn, the results are consistent with what I see in the San Francisco Bay Area. The report is info-graphically amusing, yet draws some not so humorous conclusions about where employers fall short.
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