Onboarding is one of the critical steps for any new person joining the org.
For the intern
- Don't worry about sounding stupid. Ask as many questions as possible initially.
- Make sure to get clarity on what is expected from you on first day, first week , first month and first three months.
- Try to document all things you do. This will come handy for self analysis as well as updating to your mentor.
- Send a daily, weekly and monthly update to your mentor.
- giving and taking feedback is very important please do it.
- answer https://vote.neubitat.com/p/challenges-of-interns
- Pick something from https://micro-tasks.learningpaths.io/ and start working on it
- What is your audacious goal and What is your biggest fear
- read about the thumb rules I follow meta rules|meta rule. most people at learningpaths/Learning Paths|Learning Paths and neubitat also follow this. recently started the same at vegrow as well.
For the mentor
- Make sure onboarding is smooth.
- Allow the interns to make mistakes, own up and learn.
- Don't spoon feed everything. Give them opportunities learn, figure out and own things by themselves.
- Establish boundaries and thumb rules so that they know what is expected out of them.
- giving and taking feedback is important. please do.
- anwer https://vote.neubitat.com/p/issues-for-mentoring
TODOs
- Create a google doc and spreadsheet with checklist
- Finding your niche
- Who is Gokul
- work with me
- skills talents and attitudes
- how to rate myself
- Mentoring Starter Kit
- Internships
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