Practical guides for modern hiring
Honest writing on AI in HR, structured interviews, compliance, retention, and the messy realities of building a hiring process that actually works.
Safety Onboarding for New Hires: OSHA Training and the Records to Keep
New employees are statistically the most likely to get hurt on the job. A documented safety onboarding step protects them first — and protects you when OSHA asks what training you provided and when.
Remote Onboarding: Making a Distributed New Hire Productive and Connected from Day One
Remote onboarding isn't a worse version of in-person onboarding — it's the same checklist with the hallway removed and the logistics added back deliberately. How to ship the laptop, provision access, and build belonging when the new hire never walks through your door.
New Hire Paperwork: The Forms Every Employee Needs on Day One
Beyond the I-9 there is a stack of forms every new hire has to complete — tax withholding, direct deposit, policy acknowledgments — and missing one creates payroll errors and compliance gaps. The full new-hire paperwork checklist, organized so nothing slips.
The Employee Offboarding Process: Doing Separations Right
Offboarding is the part of the employee lifecycle teams improvise — and it's where data leaks, security gaps, compliance misses, and brand damage all live. A structured, role-assigned offboarding process for voluntary and involuntary exits.
The Employee Onboarding Checklist That Actually Gets Used
Most onboarding checklists are a wall of tasks nobody owns. Here is a role-assigned, day-by-day checklist that gets a new hire to productive — with the parts teams always forget.
Designing the First 90 Days
New hires decide whether to stay within the first 6 weeks. A 90-day plan worth copying.