This book, Perfect Onboarding (퍼펙트 온보딩), is a manual written by an author who has spent years working at companies of various kinds both in Korea and abroad — serving as an HR practitioner, leading HR training, and devoting himself to management as a member of the executive team — and who lays out concrete methodologies for how not only new hires just entering the workforce but also experienced professionals changing jobs can adapt well to a new organization while effectively delivering results.
In its dictionary sense, onboarding refers to an aircraft's takeoff and landing — the most dangerous and critical phase, so much so that it is cited as a leading cause of accidents in actual flight. Likewise, onboarding in an organization refers to the period during which a new employee settles in well, up to the point of delivering results by drawing out their potential to the fullest within the organization.
Depending on what kind of onboarding process an organization builds, it can effectively train new employees and cut costs while lowering its turnover rate. An onboarding program is that important, yet the reality is that in Korea the adoption of such programs and the awareness of why they are needed are still lacking. This book offers concrete guidance on how new employees as well as HR staff, department heads, and managers can put an onboarding program into practice and raise organizational performance.