Patterns for making entrance to a new organization culture a pleasant experience

On-boarding in a new company is often a terrifying experience for a new recruit. There is a lot to learn and many new people to meet and get to know to. From the company's perspective it is crucial to make the on-boarding experience efficient so that the new employees become productive as soon as possible. On the other hand, making the on-boarding a pleasant experience the new recruit is happier with the new company and more likely to stay there longer. In this paper, a set of organizational patterns to make the on-boarding experience smoother experience is presented. There are four patterns presented in this paper: Feedback session, Welcoming Party, Quit Bonus and Feedback for Rejected. These patterns can be applied to some extent to other situations such as when an individual is entering a foreign culture. However, this paper focuses on entering a new organization.